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Toranomon Hills Station Tower is a mixed-use tower in Tokyo designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu for the Mori Corporation. When it opens to the public in fall 2023, it will be OMA’s first tower in Tokyo. Ulf Meyer looked at the project in-progress and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness opened on March 17 at Mori Art Museum's Tokyo City View gallery. The first exhibition in Japan devoted to the UK studio of Thomas Heatherwick, Building Soulfulness displays 28 major projects over the last three decades. Ulf Meyer visited... Ulf Meyer

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has unveiled a trio of proposals that aim to keep the Chicago Bears pro football team at Soldier Field on the city's lakefront. John Hill

He lived his life with a natural cosmopolitan attitude and open-mindedness into his old age. Jörg Schlaich was a quiet and modest man, yet self-confident and without the airs and graces of many of the stars acting on the architecture stage worldwide. Jörg Schlaich died on September 4. Falk Jaeger

OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Ingenhoven Architects are building a vertical city in Tokyo for Mori Building Co., Ltd. All that's missing are the Olympic Games. Ulf Meyer

During the last three decades, the quiet village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, known for its longstanding woodcarving tradition, has been a rallying point for artists from various locations around the world. What started as a series of casual encounters in the early 1990s gradually turned into an... Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes

New York architect Toshiko Mori spoke with PLANE—SITE in the ninth video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

Japan in Architecture: Genealogy of Its Transformation is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo from 25 April to 17 September 2018. The exhibition is curated by the Mori Art Museum with advisor Terunobu Fujimori. Ulf Meyer visited Japan in Architecture on opening day... Ulf Meyer

On top of running her eponymous New York architecture studio, Toshiko Mori is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she formerly served as chair. Following a conversation with a friend at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation she gave her GSD students a project for a...

Roof House is a project that completely transforms an existing villa beautifully situated on a large site filled with trees in Fredensborg, Denmark. LETH & GORI

The Catalan studio of Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta has won for the Luz House, a single-family house born from the transformation of an existing structure in Cilleros, Spain. John Hill

At World-Architects we are big fans of architectural models, but we'll admit their imagery is not as prevalent online as computer renderings. To remedy that we decided to focus an Insight on models, asking a few questions to some W-A member firms. John Hill

Photographer Jordi Bernadó responds to the fact Mies van der Rohe ordered the Barcelona Pavilion to be photographed without doors in his intervention Second Reconstruction. John Hill

When it came time to rebuild an aging elementary school gymnasium in the town of Taishi, Hyogo Prefecture, officials decided to add a space open to the general public as well. Akira Sakamoto of Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates, the firm in charge of the project, says his team aimed to...

This vacation home designed by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura of MDS Co. Ltd sits in the foothills of Yamanashi Prefecture’s Yatsugatake Mountains. The team aims to help keep Japan’s cultural heritage alive by taking a fresh look at traditional crafts and culture,...

Considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Mexico City and due to its remarkable success, Tori-Tori has now moved to a bigger location in the same area of Polanco, Mexico City, where Rojkind Arquitectos and Esrawe Studio teamed up to make it happen. Although the client’s...