Following its very own principles, Japanese architecture is a true exhibition in balance: balance between history and modernity, between tradition and innovation. It is everything from centuries-old ...

Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Scenes of ...

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...

The restoration took nearly four years to complete and was carried out by Kojima Construction Co., Ltd., under the supervision of the Association for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Structures ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...