Fumihiko Maki, a Kenzo Tange pupil, is recognized for being a firm believer in modernism while maintaining a gentle temperament. Maki’s deft response to an age concerned with the environment can be seen in this crematorium, which was finished in 1996. The structure is located on the boundaries of a historic castie town famed for …
To be honest, after the 1970 Japan World Exposition, Arata Isozaki challenged Kenzo Tange’s reputation as Japan’s most influential architect. Before 1970, he only designed a few works, the most important of which is the Oita Prefectural Library. He was still a member of Kenzo Tange’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo when he developed …
This house, which situated at the foot of the majestic Mt. Aso, was formerly a Kumamoto auditorium. Yasufumi Kijima, an architect, relocated the former Kumamoto Higher Technical School Lecture Hall from the Kumamoto University campus to this location and converted it into his personal residence. Kijima obtained a teaching position at Kumamoto University after working …
If you are visiting Imabari for the first time, you will discover that you must see a really uncommon tourist site. You should go see the buildings at the Imabari City Hall complex. While most people would dismiss such a bizarre concept, if you are familiar with Japanese architects and architecture, you will realize that …
In an effort to rehabilitate an area densely populated with individuals who had lost their homes when the world’s first atomic bomb was launched on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, an apartment complex was created in 1978. A townscape centered on a 3,000-unit residential structure, full with sunshine, greenery, and fresh air, was created …
Japan left the League of Nations in 1933, and the Kyoto International Conference Center was built as a symbol of the country’s return to the international community following World War II. A government decision in 1957 expressed this desire to develop a facility comparable to the United Nations building in New York and the Palace …
The Tsukuba Center Building is a complex facility in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, that includes the “Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba,” “Nova Hall,” “Tsukuba Innovation Plaza,” and “AI Mall.” In 1987, the project was completed. The iconic architecture of Tsukuba. When discussing Ibaraki’s architecture, the Tsukuba Center Building, as well as the work by the same …