Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
National Sep 13, 2013
Zaha Hadid: queen of the curve
by Rowan Moore
Zaha Hadid was once flying to Frankfurt to give a talk. Her plane taxied out, developed a minor fault, and stopped. She refused to believe the reassurances that the delay would be brief, and demanded that she be put on another flight. Her wish ...
World Aug 26, 2013
Dresden opens bridge that killed heritage status
A bridge that torpedoed Dresden’s World Heritage status because UNESCO deemed it a blot on the city’s baroque landscape was to open to traffic Monday. The Waldschloesschenbruecke, which at 635 meters is the longest span over the Elbe River, was built to alleviate traffic ...
Openings in Tokyo May 9, 2013
'World Architecture School Harvard GSD Platform 5'
by Delilah Romasanta
Though largely revered for its law school, Harvard University offers students of many fields an Ivy League education that has attracted top students from all over the world. In architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design provides unparalleled teaching, which has resulted in an ...
Art Apr 23, 2013
Shigeru Ban: between function and beauty
by Julian Worrall
Architecture is rooted in the basic human need for shelter. But the profession today pays little attention to situations where the need for shelter is most urgent, such as after a disaster.
People | CLOSE-UP Apr 7, 2013
Shigeru Ban: 'People's architect' combines permanence and paper
by Edan Corkill
Generally speaking, an architect’s style is defined by particular forms or shapes. There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s prominent horizontal lines, for instance; Le Corbusier’s simple white boxes; or, more recently, the deliberately abstract masses of Frank Gehry — of Guggenheim Bilbao fame.
Lifestyle Mar 6, 2013
Awakening the desire for a home with personality
by Edan Corkill
Bored with run-of-the-mill suburban Japanese apartments? Perhaps putting the grand piano in the center of the living room would improve the situation.
Profile Dec 8, 2012
In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo's traditional buildings
by Michael Kleindl
Sitting at a wooden table in the glass-enclosed sun room of the miraculously preserved 95-year-old Yasuda House, Sumiko Enbutsu, a very youthful 78, radiates enthusiasm. The house, a superb example of Taisho Era architecture and construction techniques, is now owned by the Japan National ...
Art Dec 8, 2011
Architects of the future build a better understanding of 3/11
by C.B. Liddell
With the new year in sight and 2011 about to slip into the annals of history, the defining event of this year, the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, is now starting to recede into the distance. Though for those directly touched by ...