Ise Jingu Shrine — a time for renewal
The end of the year is traditionally a time of review and new prospects, a time to weave memories of the past with plans for the future to form the narrative cloth of a coherent identity.
In Japan, where old buildings seem as disposable as yesterday's Christmas giftwrapping, architecture can often seem to suffer amnesia. For this last On: Architecture column of the year, we pick up projects from 2013 linking past and present, "renovating" the old into the new.