Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Dreaming of Earth
Venice Biennale 2016 : “Reporting From the Front”

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Collaboration work with Jae Eun Choi...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Nepal Gompa Project

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
The Nepal Earthquake in 2015 had left the historical gompa (temple) in Simigaon, Nepal completely destroyed. As one of the...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Long Thanh International Airport

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
The Long Thanh International Airport will be Vietnam’s iconic portal to the world and this terminal will represent the future...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

Ishinomaki Cultural Complex

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
In order to harmonize with the surroundings, the museum, small hall, and large hall will be placed from low to...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery
Works
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery

Osaka New Art Museum

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery
This art museum is located at Nakanoshima close to the National Museum of Art, Osaka. Not only the remains of...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

House of Light and Shadow

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The site is a typical residential area and this house was designed to experience the seasonal changes and the passage...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Theater / Auditorium
Works
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Theater / Auditorium

Takatsuki New Cultural Hall

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Theater / Auditorium
Generally, hall facilities, when there are no events, are large closed-up and unmanned boxes. They are only used by people...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Theater / Auditorium
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Onagawa Station

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
This new station has been moved 150m toward the mountain at an elevation 7m higher than before. This three-story facility...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
To service the various events, functions and installations that will be held at the museum, horizontal bi-folding doors and moveable...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
In order to respond to the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25th, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

OITA PREFECTURAL ART COLLEGE CAMPUS

Year: 2015
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
In reviewing the master plan of the existing buildings and the landscape planning it was apparent that the Diamond Plaza...
Year: 2015
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architectureWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

KYOTO GRAPHIE PAPER TUBE TEMPORARY PAVILION

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
A temporary paper tube pavilion designed for Martin Gusinde Photo Exhibition at Kyotographie International Photo Festival was built in the...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingHousesTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Solid cedar house

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
With the several projects up until now, concepts have been developed based on Mies Van der Rohe’s works as a...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition Designs
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

SHIGERU BAN- Paper Tube Structure and Disaster Relief Projects

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Pavilion of Light and Sound, SHISEIDO Venice

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
When enveloping together a space using the minimum material and power, a tensile structure* is ideal. To cut out a...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHousesPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
This is the temporary shelter constructed at Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines, following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November of 2013....
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Nursery School

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
This temporary nursery school was constructed following the earthquake in Ya’an City, Sichuan, on April 20th, 2013. Lushan County in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

LVMH Art Maison

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
The LVMH Art Maison is a 2-storey timber structure multipurpose center, with a total floor area of 291.0m². It not...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Aspen Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
The New Aspen Art Museum is located in the center of the high mountain town of Aspen, Colorado, on a...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

PAPER PARTITION SYSTEM 4 (PPS4) -Landslide in Hiroshima-

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On 20th August 2014, heavy rainfall struck Hiroshima City, Japan which caused huge landslides forcing over 1600 residents to evacuate...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Le Monde Headquarters

Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
A design competition for the new headquarters for the French media company, Le Monde. Configuration of the building was driven...
Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2014
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
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Year: 2014
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure

Dotonbori Pool

Year: 2014
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure
In commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Dotonbori River excavation,Taichi Sakaiya planned a project to create a resort in the...
Year: 2014
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Embassy of Brazil Football Pavilion

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
This is a temporary pavilion built at the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

Skolkovo Golf Club House

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
This clubhouse is located within a gold course designed by Jack Nicholas in Moscow. As a timber structure in Russia,...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Disaster Relief Center in Kyoto University of Art and Design

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
At Kyoto University of Art & Design, a temporary studio of ‘Paper Structure’ was constructed once again by the students...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Rietberg Museum Summer Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
The pavilion is used during the summer months for 3 months then put in storage for the remaining time so...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Calypso Restaurant and Lounge

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
This feature restaurant and lounge aspires to be the jewel box feature for a new mega-city block development in Shanghai....
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Abu Dhabi Art Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
This is a structure inspired by the environment as well as the culture and heritage of the UAE. This structure,...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingHousesTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Villa at Sengokubara

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The 2-storey wood structure residence is situated on a flag pole shaped site, 30m square in plan with a 15m...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

Yakushima Takazuka Lodge

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Mountain hut built in the National park of Yakushima Island. The hut was rebuilt on the foundation of the previous...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Cardboard Cathedral

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (magnitude 6.3) inflicted crippling damage on the Christchurch Cathedral which was the symbol of city....
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Tamedia New Office Building

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
One of the main features of this project, is a seven story rigid frame structural system, designed entirely in timber,...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Exhibition DesignsHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision Furniture House

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Instead of being supported by conventional columns and walls, this “Furniture House” is supported structurally by the furniture itself, creating...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Madrid Paper Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
The pavilion is composed of a L-shape existing concrete wall, 6 paper tubes columns and a paper tubes truss roof...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Temporary Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
This temporary pavilion was designed for the “Garage Center” art gallery in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia. It was requested that...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Red Cross Museum “The Humanitarian Adventure: Reducing Natural Risks”

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
In the museum, the paper tubes are arranged in organic curves and waves reminiscent of a forest or wetlands, giving...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2013
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2013
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

Odawara City Art And Culture

Year: 2013
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
The most prominent feature of this project is the wooden tunnel arch that links art and history. The wooden arch...
Year: 2013
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure