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New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts expands into the ultimate mixed-use building. At the heart of New York's cultural world stands Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Built […]

Toyo Ito and Associates designed a hotel, Hotel P, in the rural setting of Japan's northernmost island. The hotel consists of a two-story, bar-shaped structure containing the guest rooms and an ellipse containing the public areas. Design details are discussed.

Itsuko Hasegawa, Japan's leading woman architect, designed the seven-story STM House office building in Tokyo, using green, violet, blue and pink bands of glass to emulate nature's rainbow. Hasegawa believes architects should bring a new aspect of nature to substitute for the one that was there.

The article discusses the PATH home project in Tokyo, Japan designed by ARTechnic architects.

Tadao Ando, in his first US commission, has designed a 1,850-square-foot Japanese Screen Gallery for the Art Institute of Chicago. Ando installed 16 free-standing, one-foot square pillars that serve to alter the perception of the screens as the viewer moves through the gallery.

Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz designed Morning Park Chikaramachi in Nagoya, Japan, with the idea of making it suitable for the retirees that were to live there. The active life most senior citizens live dictated the need for a residence built around community life.

At the building perimeter, movable pin joints connect the walls and roof while accommodating expansion and contraction due to heat gain. PHOTO (COLOR): The bowed roof, with its apertures that frame the changing clouds (right), loosely follows the dip of the floor to define an approximately 8-foot-tall space (above), similar to the ceiling height in a typical Japanese house. DEPARTMENTS THIRTEEN years ago, Junya Ishigami astonished the architecture world with the completion of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) Workshop, a glazed parallelogram supported by a staggering 305 sliver-like columns (record, November 2008). [Extracted from the article]

Echoing the stacked lobbies, the staff lounge on the seventh floor, which includes dining and seating areas, and the roof garden are also linked with stairs and shared greenery. In the staff lounge, wider wood slats segue smoothly from walls to ceiling, creating a relaxed, cocoon-like space. Kuma used similar wood details in the customer-service area (opposite, top) and staff lounge (opposite, bottom). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the architectural design of the Lath House in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects.

The article discusses the Ota Museum & Library in Ota, Japan designed by Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office.

The article discusses the Enoura Observatory in Enoura District of Odawara City, Japan designed by design firm New Material Research Laboratory owned by photographer by Hiroshi Sugimoto in collaboration with architect Tomoyuki Sakakida.

The article reviews the design of the building ArtLab at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland by the firm Kengo Kuma and Associates.

The article discusses the design of Erretegia, a restaurant specializing in Basque cuisine in Hiroshima, Japan, designed by architect Hiroshi Nakamura.

The article discusses the Cultural Village at Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon designed by architect Kengo Kuma.

A review is offered of the architectural design of a residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by architect Shigeru Ban.

The article offers a review of the architectural design by the firm Curiosity of the Dolce & Gabbana retail store in Tokyo, Japan.

The article evaluates the architectural design of the National Taichung Theater in Taichung City, Taiwan, designed by architect Toyo Ito.

The article reviews the architectural design of the Umeda Hospital in Hikari, Japan that was designed by architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates.

The article reviews the architectural design of the Helix House in Tokyo, Japan that was designed by the firm Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima / TNA.

The article reviews the National Taiwan University College of Social Sciences Library and Gifu Media Cosmos Library.

An architectural evaluation is provided for River, a building in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by the firm SANAA for the nonprofit organization Grace Farms Foundation.

The article evaluates the hotel Onomichi U2 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, designed by the architectural firm Suppose Design Office, which is oriented toward cyclists.

The article evaluates the design of the buildings Sayama Lakeside Cemetery Park Community Hall and Forest Chapel, both in Saitama, Japan and designed by the architectural firm Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co. Ltd.

The article discusses the architectural design of the radical home in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Japanese architectural firm Sou Fujimoto Architects.

The article evaluates the architectural design of the L'Opera Restaurant in Paris, France, designed by the firm Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes.

The article profiles several buildings and projects designed by architecture firm Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects, founded by architect Hiroshi Nakamura and based in Tokyo, Japan. Project designs discussed include a housing complex in Tokyo, Japan, the Lotus Beauty Salon in Mie Prefecture, Japan, and a boutique for clothing designer and retailer Lanvin. The article also discusses aspects of Nakamura's architecture career, including his time working for architect Kengo Kuma.

The article discusses environmental building practices in the development of New Songdo City (NSC), South Korea. The author discusses the work of architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), which was chosen to design the city's buildings, including the Northeast Asia Trade Tower. Other topics include the joint venture between construction company POSCO E & C and development company Gale International, the use of building prototypes in the design process, and the financial aspects of the project.

The article features the Suntory Museum of Art, designed by Kengo Kuma, at the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo, Japan. From the main gallery, visitors descend a glass-encased stair to the third-floor atrium. Museum offices and storage fill the fifth floor, while the sixth floor holds a conference hall opening onto an outdoor deck, a members' club, and an informal tea-ceremony room.

The article features the 21_21 Design Sight building designed by Tadao Ando, at the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is one of two trapezoidal buildings that Ando designed for the site. Its twin is a single-story building containing a café. United by an exterior passage, these two halves of the project add up to a sleek, triangular figure that follows the lines of a public walkway rimming Midtown's northwest corner.

The article focuses on the interior design and architecture of the eyeglass boutique of Jin's Global Standard developed by architectural firm Ryuji Nakamura. The shop is located inside a shopping mall in Tokyo, Japan. It notes that the 3-foot-wide, 11-foot-high corridors formed by freestanding parallel walls persuade customers to go inside the store and look at the 1,500 pairs of glasses on display. It says that the boutique's well-ordered geometry yields some unexpected visual experiences and twists of perception.

The article features Japanese architect Taira Nishizawa. The major aspect of his design for a single-family home in Tachikawa, Japan was the client's collection of U.S. audio equipment. He always incorporates real-life conditions into his architectural designs. His major project in 2005 is the Tomochi Forestry Hall.

This article focuses on the Chichu Museum in Naoshima, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. The Chichu Museum represents a welcome return to the intense, small-scale work that first made Osaka architect Tadao Ando famous. This sanctuarylike museum blocks out extraneous visual information and focuses attention on light and sky. Aptly named chichu, or "within the earth," the new museum is a collection of concrete volumes embedded in a hilly site overlooking Japan's Inland Sea.

This article reports that from Fort Worth to Manhattan to Paris, Japanese architects are building major museums everywhere. But residents of Kanazawa, a regional city northwest of Tokyo, don't have to leave town to visit one of the most talked-about new museums by a Japanese firm, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in October 2004. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, the building consists of a cluster of abstract white boxes rising from an enormous glass circle. In the past, Japan had a habit of building imposing Western-style museums and placing them in isolated parks or on hilltop sites. But the city of Kanazawa, the client for the 21st Century Museum, located the project near the center of town on the grounds of a former girls school.

The article presents information about Akira Yoneda an architect. He completed his graduate studies in architectural graphics at Tokyo University with a thesis on Le Corbusier's use of stairs. After a five-year stint--and lots of hands-on experience--at Takenaka, the construction giant, he remedied his design deficit by earning an M.Arch. degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Upon returning to Japan, Yoneda got his chance to try his hand at stairs in White Echoes, a 1998 Tokyo house for a couple with three children and a live-in grandfather. Ambi-Flux marked a turning point for Yoneda: his first collaboration with Masahiro Ikeda, the structural engineer of choice for many young Tokyo designers.

The article reports that Masaki Endoh's, an architect, collaborations with his engineer creatively fuse architecture with structure. If he could, Masaki Endoh would wave a wand and make all columns and beams disappear. Collaborating with the engineer/architect Masahiro Ikeda, Endoh has been conjuring ways to minimize structural elements--whether by rendering them as thin as possible or by disguising them as wall panels and shifting loads to hidden roof trusses. Though Endoh and Ikeda(Masahiro Ikeda) have separate firms, they maintain an ongoing dialogue about the fusion of architecture and structure, extending far beyond the standard designer-consultant relationship.

This article reports that Qatar's Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development when it decided to build the 2,400-acre Education City in 1997 at the edge of the nation's capital of Doha. In order to provide top-notch education for this Islamic country on the Persian Gulf, the foundation decided the complex should be composed of branches of existing highly respected institutions, rather than trying to start a new university from scratch. So far, American universities such as Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Commonwealth, and Texas A&M, and Cornell University's Weill Medical School have become involved. Each school in the new complex is to be housed in its own architect-designed building, and all tied together with a master plan by Arata Isozaki + i-NET. The 391,410-square-foot Liberal Arts and Science College building, designed by the Tokyo firm Kazuhiro Kojima + Kazuko Akamatsu/C+A, is among the first to be completed. An appropriate launch for the entire development, the structure houses a liberal arts college affiliated with Texas A&M, as well as the Academic Bridge Program, a language program where students from all over the Arab world brush up their English before moving on to other disciplines. A self-contained square, the Liberal Arts and Science College building begins with a parking garage submerged partly below grade, on top of which sit two floors, each consisting of spaces with assigned functions or flexible ones.

This article reports that filling the northern tip of Japan's Honshu Island, Aomori Prefecture is better known for apples than architecture. But the completion of Tadao Ando's Aomori Contemporary Art Center has helped to put the agricultural outpost on the proverbial architectural map. Located on the outskirts of Aomori City, adjacent to the Aomori Public College, the ACAC occupies a secluded, hilly parcel surrounded by forest. From November to March, the site is blanketed with snow, but in summer it blossoms with flowers and trees.

Cable television network TV Asahi's new headquarters is a building that never sleeps. Designed by one of Japan's modern master architect Fumihiko Maki, it transmits news and other programs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The new home of one of Japan's five major private networks, the state-of-the-art broadcasting center replaces and consolidates facilities that had been distributed among several nearby locations. Filling a corner of Roppongi Hills, Tokyo's flashiest new multiuse complex, the building bears Maki's trademark elegance yet is as dramatic as the made-for-TV period pieces staged inside.

This article focuses on the design and construction of architects Takaharu and Yui Tezuka's scheme for the Echigo-Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum in Japan, done in collaboration with architect and engineer Masahiro Ikeda. Commissioned for the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, a regional event that included public sculpture and new buildings by the Dutch firm MVRDV project occupies a beautiful site 145 miles north of Tokyo where mountains meet fields once cultivated for rice. A clear departure from the glass-and-steel structures typical of many Japanese architects today, the heavily armored museum looks more like an industrial relic than a brand-new cultural facility.

Focuses on Tokyo, Japan-based Tezuka Architects. Foundation date; Staff strength; Outline of completed and ongoing projects.

Features the architectural design of the Sapporo Dome in Japan. Physical description of the dome; Location site; Background of the architect of the dome.

Describes the Mediatheque, a public library and information center, designed by Toyo Ito & Associates for the city of Sendai, Japan. Structural design features; Architectural style; Place for gathering and sharing information using advanced electronic, digital, visual and printed means.

Focuses on architect Hitoshi Abe's design for a stadium in Sendai, Japan. Appeal of Abe's design; Stadium form; Approach in creating designs; Project details.