Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo
Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
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Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
Built on the sea with saltwater moats - Todo Takatora's design joining harbour and fortress as one.
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.
The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.
On a headland with galleries cantilevered over the Pacific, holding letters whose handwriting breaks into something like drawing.