Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Architect Sou Fujimoto inside the Grand Ring, a huge timber-framed structure encircling much of the Expo 2025 site. - Yumi ...

I got my first impression of Japanese culture through real-time strategy games, where choosing to play with the civilization meant getting disciplined units and sleek pagodas, and I've been a fan of ...

Japan has one of the world’s most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects ...

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose projects explore connections between natural and man-made systems, said the world should limit new construction to reduce the climate impact of the built ...

TOKYO (AP) — A new generation of Japanese architects is scoring success by reinterpreting the past. Unlike their predecessors, who modernized Japan with Western-style edifices, they talk of fluidly ...

Tokyo (AP) — Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died. He was 95. Maki, who taught ...

Rogelio Bores, founder of HW Studio in Mexico, explores the Japanese concept of ‘kehai’—or subtle presence—at a modest ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan >> Hotakubo Housing, a 1991 complex in Kumamoto City, was a new concept in housing for Japan that was introduced by Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto. The project offers a glimpse into ...

Japan Society will present “Exceptional Japanese Houses: Residential Design from 1945 to the Present” – a book talk with Naomi Pollock on December 5 at 6:30pm at Japan Society (333 E. 47th Street ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The architect who oversaw the selection of plans for Japan's new Olympic stadium defended the controversial design on Thursday, saying ballooning costs were not his fault even as the ...

Ever since the Great Exhibition opened its doors in London 174 years ago, the World’s Fair has offered nations a chance to show off the greatest inventions of the age. But Expos of recent decades have ...