These seven architectural works by masters such as Kengo Kuma and Tadao Ando show how the archipelago is shaping the future by sublimating its past. From Yusuhara to Tokyo, Japanese architecture ...

The story goes that Tadao Ando had become interested in building ... work was lost in an increasingly self-referential oeuvre. More recently Ando has been working with existing buildings and his ...

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo.Credit: Mitsuo Matsuoka. Courtesy Tadao Ando Architect & Associates ... attests to “a sense of silence” in Ando’s buildings. “That silence allows self ...

As the lauded designer makes headlines once again for his buildings ... Japanese architect Tadao Ando poses in front of a public toilet designed by him ahead of "The Tokyo Toilet art project ...

She has always, she says, commissioned architects who will “inspire curiosity, change and reflection – all connected by the shared sense of humanity designing buildings that put humans first”.

It was designed by Tadao ... buildings in the concrete flesh. His work was mostly experienced through photographs. But that was 40 years ago. Since those early days of impeccable concrete ...