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Accor Hotels is set to open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, the masterpiece of Metabolism that was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972 and demolished fifty years later despite attempts to save the innovative structure.
Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss opened recently at Roppongi Museum in Tokyo. Designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, the exhibition unfolds through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of the Miss Dior parfum. Japan-Architects got a preview of this latest stop for the touring...
Minimum number of pensioners living in Mirabella, a 20-story “university retirement community” on the campus of Arizona...
The slanted walls of this eight-story office building in Tokyo appear anti-social, even aggressive at first glance, but they are a logical response to an adjacent elevated railway line, the need for acoustic privacy in the offices, and the desire for natural air and light. Makoto Yamaguchi...
The Learning Architecture for Learners is a new building at Tokyo Gakugei University that is part of the Explayground Project. It was designed by VUILD, the studio headed by Koki Akiyoshi that specializes in digital fabrication. Here we present a report on the project from Japan-Architects.
Construction has begun on Torch Tower in Tokyo. Designed by Sou Fujimoto and Yuko Nagayama, the tower will be 390 meters (1,280 feet) when complete in 2028, making it the Japan's tallest building.
Number of Japanese architects by the likes of Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, and Kuma Kengo, who have redesigned public toilets in various locations throughout Shibuya, Tokyo: 16
Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects in Tokyo in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the second part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about the Nobori Building in Tokyo, the K8 building in Kyoto, and “Vertical Landscapes,”...
Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects (FBA) in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the first part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about his...
Toranomon Hills Station Tower is a mixed-use tower in Tokyo designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu for the Mori Corporation. When it opens to the public in fall 2023, it will be OMA’s first tower in Tokyo. Ulf Meyer looked at the project in-progress and sent us his impressions.
Yuko Nagayama & Associates designed the exterior and part of the interior of Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, the commercial building with 48 floors above ground and 5 basement levels, whose unique appearance has attracted attention since it started construction. Japan-Architects visited the tower...
Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness opened on March 17 at Mori Art Museum's Tokyo City View gallery. The first exhibition in Japan devoted to the UK studio of Thomas Heatherwick, Building Soulfulness displays 28 major projects over the last three decades. Ulf Meyer visited...
London's Kingston University has announced that Grafton Architects, designers of the award-winning Town House on the university's Penrhyn Road campus, have been hired to design an academic building at the school's nearby Knights Park campus.
In a new film by Akira Koyama, founder and owner of KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS, the Tokyo architect gives an on-site tour of Ginza Extra Small Building, a five-story commercial building with a tiny footprint.
Tokyu Corporation will open the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, a large hotel and entertainment complex, on April 14. Designed by Yuko Nagayama & Associates, it is Japan’s...
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named The David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago the 2022 Best Tall Building Worldwide, besting other considerably taller contenders.
On his popular "Architecture with Stewart" YouTube channel, Stewart Hicks presents the history of Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower, explains why it was demolished, and speaks with artist Noritaka Minami, who documented the tower for over a decade.
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has released renderings of Harajuku Quest, a commercial and cultural center that just started construction on Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando, not far...
On display on the campus of Rice University in Houston until December 17, 2022, Rana Begum's No.1187 Mesh and No. 1193 Mesh are colorful mesh sculptures meant to "push the material and conceptual possibilities of public artwork."
Size of a "three–tatami flat" in a nihonma, a home in a Japanese city with a rent of $340 to $630 (€345 to €645) per month: 95 square feet (8.8 m2)
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his extensive archive of sketchbooks, drawings, and models to McGill University, where he first designed what became his breakout Habitat 67 project.
Andrés Jaque, founder of Madrid- and New York-based Office for Political Innovation, has been appointed the next Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).
Snøhetta designs a tower for Tokyu Corporation in Tokyo that features a terraced roof topped with trees. Ulf Meyer isn’t buying it. [First published on July 28, 2022; updated with renderings on August 5.]
Located on axis with the famous clock tower of Clemson University's Tillman Hall and directly across the street from the equally iconic Bowman Field, the new Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business features a design influenced strongly by its site conditions. LMN Architects answered a few...
The building in Tokyo's Ginza district that houses the first Apple Store to open in Japan — in 2003, when it was also the first Apple Store outside of the United States — will be demolished later this year.
Today, April 12, marks the start of the demolition of one of the most important works of postwar architecture in Japan: Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed exactly fifty years ago.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Day the demolition of the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972,
The new two-building home for the Columbia Business School opened at the beginning of this year, marking the completion of phase one of Columbia University's Manhattanville Campus, following a trio of buildings designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. World-Architects got a tour of the...
One of Kenji Hirose’s best houses — SH-60, located in Nakano ward of northwestern Tokyo — has been demolished.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled their design for Sarofim Hall, which reinterprets Butler Buildings to create a "new hub for cross-disciplinary practice" at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
The Torch Tower will dominate Tokyo's skyline when it's completed in 2028. The 63-story tower is the main element in Tokyo Torch, a mixed-use development in the city's historic Tokiwabashi district.
Construction is underway on a 34-story tower designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop for Columbia University, located across the street from its Manhattanville campus and three other buildings designed by the firm.
Although the Nakagin Capsule Tower, an icon of Metabolist architecture in Tokyo designed by Kisho Kurokawa, could not be saved, plans are afoot to remove the capsules, refurbish them, and donate them to museums in and beyond Japan.
Last summer we learned about public toilets designed by Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, and others popping up over Tokyo's Shibuya district. They have been joined by a "toilet village" at Nabeshima Shoto Park designed by Kengo Kuma, the latest facility in the Nippon Foundation's Tokyo Toilet...
Located across the street from a park in Tokyo's Shinagawa City, the Weather House, designed by not architects studio, is wrapped in stairs and terraces that are veiled by a chain-link facade that is ideal for climbing plants.