(CNN)-- "For architects, perfection is necessary," said Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. "It is my mission to use the kindness and delicateness that old architecture had. I believe that this mission ...

In architecture, more than anywhere else, Japan plays a subtle game. These seven architectural works by masters such as Kengo Kuma and Tadao Ando show how the archipelago is shaping the future by ...

‘Softer, more feminine, design’ is the future, says legendary architect Kengo Kuma Kuma, whose work is ... See the hidden marvels inside Japan’s ancient wooden shrines Japanese carpenters ...

The architect ... Japanese admired everything new and shiny, detached from history. A new optimistic future was being constructed: concrete and steel dominated in building that vision. In 1964 ...

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has collaborated with Swedish furniture brand Gärsnäs on HidaHida, a fabric-clad easy chair that "communicates both Scandinavian and Japanese influences".

An oversized, bamboo-clad roof connects the spaces at the Bamboo Gate community centre in the Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park, Japan, designed by architecture studio Kengo Kuma and ...

Following the advice of Zen masters, Jon Stollenmeyer endured months of rejection before finally getting his foot in the ...

Hara died on 3 January. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, where he taught renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Pritzker Prize-winning Riken Yamamoto. The Kawasaki-born ...

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled a pair of Christmas trees made from elements that will become furniture at the Edition hotels in Toranomon and Ginza, Tokyo. Each of the trees was made ...

Installed at Nabeshima Shoto Park in the Shoto 2-chome district in late June was one designed by architect Kengo Kuma. The “toilet ... covered by randomly angled Japanese cedar louvers and ...

Kuma, whose work is explored in a new book from Taschen, details his humanistic approach to architecture ... Cool Japanese Starbucks Leaves The Seattle Vibe Far Behind The store, by Kengo Kuma ...