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ARCHITECTURE

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 11, 2019
With farms atop malls, Singapore gets serious about food security
Visitors to Singapore's Orchard Road, the city's main shopping belt, will find fancy malls, trendy department stores, abundant food courts — and a small farm.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 8, 2019
'Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History': What kind of beauty lies beneath ruins?
The exploration of the subject of ruins — their romanticization and fantasization — raises questions about the relationship between art, beauty and disaster.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Nov 10, 2018
Motomi Morii: Japanese roots, Nordic aesthetic
Since 2009, Motomi Morii has lived and worked in New York. There, she indulges in her love of experimental and improvised music, and takes part in various Japanese cultural events around the city. Most importantly, New York provides her with constant inspiration and opportunity for her career in architectural design.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2018
Tokyo 2020: Workers raise section of giant roof at tradition-inspired Olympic gymnastics venue
The venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gymnastics competition moved a step closer toward completion Wednesday when construction workers raised the center section of its giant timber roof.
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 4, 2018
Tsuyoshi Tane designs forward-thinking buildings by building on memories
Tsuyoshi Tane says one particular piece of praise has stayed with him throughout the year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 27, 2018
Patrick Wheare: From tabula rasa to building community
Architect and Shibaura House project manager Patrick Wheare on why he's a flamingo, Japanese architecture and the local Shibaura community.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2018
A creative force in a concrete jungle: Architect's Tokyo project draws on love and improvisation
Sandwiched between old residential apartments in the capital's central Minato Ward is the Arimaston Building, an eccentric collage of individually patterned concrete slabs piled upon each other as if by happenstance.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 30, 2018
Beijing showcases China's design potential
Chinese history and artisanship inspire Japanese creators at the first Design China Beijing fair
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2018
The art of architecture and photography
The current exhibition at Archi-Depot, 'A Gaze into Architecture: Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture' features the work of 13 artists, of whom more than half are Japanese. All the work is exceptional.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2018
Architect Renzo Piano offers new bridge design for hometown Genoa after tragedy
Italy's best-known architect, Renzo Piano, offered on Tuesday to donate the design for a bridge to replace the one that collapsed in his birthplace of Genoa this month, saying he cannot think about anything else after 43 people were killed in the tragedy.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 11, 2018
Designer Linda Polgar gives vintage textiles a new lease of life
Longtime Tokyo resident on choosing fabric, fashion designers and surviving Japanese summer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 3, 2018
Gordon Matta-Clark: Out of the rubble
It's New York in the 1970s. The optimism of '60s America has faded into cynicism and despair. The city is so broke that it's almost bankrupt. People are fleeing to the suburbs and industry New York is shutting down, leaving abandoned warehouses, homes and tenements scattered throughout. Meanwhile, artists...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jul 1, 2018
From Tokyo to London: This is the house that Japan built
As London's new cultural hub of all things Japanese, Japan House London's minimalist interiors, striking central spiral staircase, displays of nnovative design, art and architectural works and classy top-floor restaurant impressively avoid the all-too-easy preconceptions about Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 3, 2018
Architecture in Japan: A storied history built firmly on wooden foundations
'Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of its Transformation' is now showing at the Mori Art Museum.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
May 26, 2018
Defining the Heisei Era: Japan indulges in excess
The Japan Times presents the first installment of a monthly 12-part series that looks back at the leading issues of the past three decades.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Apr 29, 2018
Architect Fumihiko Maki: Finding intimacy in the city
Fumi Maki talks about a landmark book of Japanese architecture, 'City with a Hidden Past,' and the virtues of Tokyo's inner havens.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Apr 28, 2018
'Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process': A must-read to understand Japanese architecture
Dana Buntrock's fieldwork highlights the collaborative nature of architecture, manufacturing and construction in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Mar 31, 2018
Japan Times 1918: Japan now has female street car conductors
A private street-car company, the Mino Denki Kido Kaisha, in the Nagoya district, following the example in other belligerent countries has made the interesting experiment of employing women conductors.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 30, 2018
Philippines' city of the future: New Clark
He may never set foot in New Clark City, but taxi driver Edgard Labitag hopes the Philippines' first green, disaster-resilient, high-tech metropolis will ease the pressure on Manila — meaning fewer hours stuck in traffic and more time with his children.

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