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SANAA
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La Samaritaine Reinvents the Paris Department Store for the 21st Century
A renovation led by SANAA incorporates futuristic facades, historic restoration, and social housing into the Right-Bank landmark.
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Barbican Exhibit on Japanese Houses a Veritable Architectural Playground
A new exhibition at the Barbican Gallery highlights Japanese architects’ thrilling, seemingly impractical, sometimes topsy-turvy experiments with the house.
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Dancing with Architecture: Grace Farms Comes Alive With "Awe"
SANAA's award-winning building has itself become an integral participant in a project led by Grace Farm’s artist-in-residence, choreographer Andrea Miller.
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MCHAP Winners Make Landscape the Protagonist
The final group from this year’s cycle is diverse in typology and scale—but they all shared one recurrent theme: a very specific sense of place.
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In Contemporary Architecture, the Section Is the Generator
The founding partners of LTL Architects explain the utility of section drawings and their influence on 21st-century architecture.
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Guided by Kazuyo Sejima, Yang Zhao Designs for Tsunami-Ravaged Town
Mentored by Kazuyo Sejima, Yang Zhao creates a Japanese community center.
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The Economics Behind Japan’s Obsession With Housing
Architects in Japan get away with a lot. Here's why home owners don't mind living in houses without windows.
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Out of the Doghouse
In this month’s issue, we profiled Muji creative director Kenya Hara‘s design venture, Architecture for Dogs. Hara paired big-name architects and designers like Kazuyo Sejima (of SANAA fame), Konstanti
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Muji’s Kenya Hara Brings Design Innovation to the Doghouse
Twelve architects use their professional skills to relate better to their four-legged friends.
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Book Review: The SANAA Studios
Architecture-school crits are a famously bruising rite of passage for aspiring design professionals—unless, apparently, your professor is from the renowned Japanese firm SANAA. In the introduction to The SANAA Studios
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Kazuyo Sejima Completes Her Most Complex Work So Far
Kazuyo Sejima’s latest project, an apartment building in Yokohama, Japan, is an intricate composition of curves and voids that delicately balances privacy and community.