But Kyoto is not Venice. Arrive at the futuristic and bustling Kyoto train station (as many do on the high-speed Shinkansen train from Tokyo) and you realize that the former capital of Japan is not a ...

Bamboo Gate is located in the Mabi Disaster Prevention Park Japanese architect Kengo Kuma founded his eponymous studio in 1990. Today, it has offices in Tokyo, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai and Seoul.

The $550 million redevelopment of Philadelphia's William H. Gray III 30th Street Station by SOM has officially begun construction and is slated for completion in 2025. This transformative project ...

‘A sanctuary of ethereal beauty’: these are the words Japanese architect Kengo Kuma uses to describe his new hotel project, Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto, which sits in the magical bamboo forests of ...

Commune by the Great Wall became part of Hyatt’s Unbound Collection in 2021, so points loyalists have even more incentive to visit. In 2024, upgrade and renovation work will begin on the ...

China Vandals busted open Great Wall to make 'shortcut,' creating 'irreversible damage' The suspects wanted to shorten travel time to their construction project By Peter Aitken Fox News ...

Suzuki: a sushi bar by Kengo Kuma First impressions count and Kuma sets the scene with a floor-to-ceiling glass façade clad in a bamboo collage that unfurls into a subliminal outline of waves. Inside, ...

Conceived as an intimate place where to retreat from the frenzy of workdays, the villa expresses in Kenzo’s vision the meeting of Eastern and Western sense of living. Sold in 2009, the property ...

The bamboo-clad property, designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates as part of the Hoshino hospitality brand, is a mirror of its surroundings. It’s rooted in careful craftsmanship that blends in with its ...

A master of webs and woven structures of unusual lightness, the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma creates buildings today that come closest to the idea of a nest. Façades organically embraced by festoons ...

Click here to see examples of Kuma's architecture. Taking the audience through a number of his landmark works, from the Lotus House, to the Bamboo Wall, and from the Louis Vuitton Tokyo HQ, to his ...