Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...

Japan is the land of the unusual, quirky and revolutionary, a place where you pretty much expect anything, including ...

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover home design and luxury real estate. There are few architects who can say they’ve sold full residential towers in a matter ...

Tokyo’s skyline has been increasingly crowded by construction cranes since Japan’s winning bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. For some, they represent progress and economic promise; for others, ...

Located in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima is part of a cluster islands that includes Teshima and Inujima, where art and nature merge. At the heart of this project is renowned architect Tadao Ando, ...

Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954–2202 is one of the better books about works of Japanese architecture that you have probably never heard of. But that’s exactly why you should read ...

Need a train station shelter in a hurry? You can now print that. In Arida, Japan, a Japanese architectural firm and 3D-printed house manufacturer partnered with JR-West, a railway network, to build ...

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 ...