Section
Contemporary
Timber, transparency and lightness in the work of contemporary Japanese studios.
Kengo Kuma and the Return of Timber
From small village projects to Tokyo's National Stadium, Kuma has made wood a central material of contemporary Japanese architecture.
SANAA in Kanazawa: A Museum With No Back Door
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is a glass circle that welcomes the city in from every side.
From other sections
Ise Jingu: The Shrine That Is Rebuilt Every Twenty Years
For more than a thousand years, Japan's most sacred shrine has been dismantled and rebuilt in fresh cypress. What does it mean for a building to be both ancient and new?
Katsura Imperial Villa and the Art of the Sukiya Style
A seventeenth-century princely retreat in Kyoto that taught twentieth-century modernists a lesson about restraint.
Church of the Light: How Tadao Ando Built with Shadow
A modest chapel in suburban Osaka turned a cross-shaped slit in a concrete wall into one of the most recognisable images in modern architecture.
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