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Kengo Kuma Unveils “Green Hospital” for Tokyo

Traditionally, hospital environments are internalized, cut off from the natural world, and structured around efficiency, despite its affect on patient health. Moving beyond this, Kengo Kuma & Associates have unveiled plans to replaced an aging medical center in Setagaya, Tokyo, with a… Sigue leyendo

Tokyo Loft / G architects

Architects: G architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architects In Charge: Teruya Kido/ Suma-Saga-Fudosan Inc. + Ryohei Tanaka
Area: 87.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Katsumi Hirabayashi Produce: Noriko Kubota, Yuko Sunami/ Suma-Saga-Fudosan Inc.
Construction: Takumi Shibata, Yugo Matsuda/ Setup
Fabric Adviser: Miki … Sigue leyendo

Pergola / APOLLO Architects & Associates

Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
Location: Japan, 〒338-0836 Saitama-ken, Saitama-shi, Sakura-ku, Machiya, 2 Chome−16−10 ヘアステージKAWAGUCHI
Architect In Charge: Satoshi Kurosaki
Area: 297.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Masao Nishikawa Structural Engineer: Masaki Structure (Kenta Masaki)
Mechanical Engineer: Naoki Matsumoto…
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Jon Jerde, California Architect Known for Reinventing the Shopping Center, Dies at 75

Jon Jerde, FAIA, founder of The Jerde Partnership, has died at 75. The California-based American architect has left his mark in more than 100 urban places worldwide, many of which embody Jerde’s signature ideas of the multi-level mall. Placing high priority on outdoor walking and gathering areas, Jerde’s reimagining of the shopping mall experience in the 1970s put him on the map. "He blew open the shopping mall and transformed it into a lively urban environment which attracts people, lots of people," Richard Weinstein, the former dean of UCLA's school architecture and urban planning, once said.

Jerde's best known projects include Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles, Horton Plaza in San Diego and Canal City Hakata, located in Fukuoka, Japan, as well as his work behind the 1984 Olympic Games. Read Jerde’s complete obituary, here

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Villa Escargot / Takeshi Hirobe Architects

Architects: Takeshi Hirobe Architects
Location: Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Takeshi Hirobe
Area: 116.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Koichi Torimura Design Structural Engineer: Akira Ouchi /S FORM
Execution Structural Engineer: Shelter From the architect.… How to “wall in” Sigue leyendo

“Classic Japan” Episode 2: Sachio Otani’s Kyoto International Conference Center

The second episode in “Classic Japan” features the 1966 Kyoto International Conference Center by Sachio Otani. The site of the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, Otani’s waterfront conference center unfurls onto nearby Lake Takaragaike via a series of concrete pathways… Sigue leyendo

House Passage of Landscape / ihrmk

Architects: ihrmk
Location: Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Masaki Ihara
Area: 99.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda From the architect.… Tanada, terraced paddy field, widely appears to its south and the west. My first visiting of this Sigue leyendo

Ribbon Chapel / NAP Architects

Architects: NAP Architects
Location: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Area: 80.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners Inc Structure Design: Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Structure: S structure
Site Area: 2500 m2 From the architect.… Two Spirals Sigue leyendo

Wood Design & Building Magazine Announces Winners of its 2014 Wood Awards

Wood Design and Building Magazine has announced the winners of its 2014 Wood Awards. Run in partnership with the Canadian Wood Council, this year the awards included for the first time an international awards category in addition to the North America awards. With… Sigue leyendo

“Classic Japan” Episode One: Yoyogi National Gymnasium / Kenzo Tange

From Tokyo-based French architect and film maker Vincent Hecht comes “Classic Japan,” a series of short films focussed on Japanese architecture from between the 1950s and 80s. The first installment takes viewers into Kenzo Tange‘s 1964 Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, built to house the… Sigue leyendo