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Pei
Zhu, one of China’s rising stars
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Mumon,
a posh Japanese eatery in the Big Apple
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This
month’s stock of the latest products, events
and news
book
review
Urbanisms:
Working with Doubt by Steven Holl
report
Hong Kong, New
York and Shanghai discuss skyscraper urbanism
and how to maintain the cities’ successful
growth and development
project
news
Projects in the
pipeline from around the world
folio
*STUA’s
flagship store in Madrid
*Zaha Hadid’s Chamber Music Hall for the
Manchester Art Gallery
*Phoenix
Television gets a new home in Hong Kong
*Las
Negras waterfront re-urbanisation in Spain
*Londonewcastle’s swanky new office in Central
London
cover story
Japanese architecture takes centre stage
project
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*A children’s activity and education centre
in Thailand
*Villa Nurbs – a symbol of avant garde architecture
*A
study centre for HKU and a black box by Lyndon
Neri and Rosanna Hu of NDHRO
*The
Bijlmer Parktheatre in Amsterdam
*Qatar’s
Science and Technology Park by Woods Bagot
fulcrum
The
University of Michigan’s Museum of Art
global
perspective
A closer
look at MiAS Arquitectes
out
there
A snapshot
of this month’s social events
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Sons (and Daughters)
Building Japanese
In
the annals of modern architecture, particularly
over the last two decades, Japan has held a singular
position. Never quite like work from anywhere
else, Japanese architecture seems to have emerged
from a particular set of conditions
and proclivities not replicated elsewhere. While
it is a fool’s game to generalise too emphatically
when it comes to form and geography, or culture
(architects like nothing more than being exceptions
to rules), it is difficult not to observe
that buildings in Japan are, well, only like other
buildings in Japan, and very unlike buildings
in other places, even within Asia. It is hard
to think of any other country where this is such
a pronounced truth. A region? Scandinavia perhaps,
although still not so strongly...
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