Tadao Ando   Japan   Tokyo Midtown is the result of a long redevelopment project on the former site of the Defense Ministry in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Constructed in a public park in the northwest part of this recovered area, this gallery for exhibitions on the t

Architecture Global Aid   Japan   The seven shelter-houses, folded and inserted in an envelope, function as school desks. Built out of floating wood, their bright colors allow for them to be easily identified and retrieved amid the debris that a tsunami leaves behind...

Kazuhiro Kojima   Japan   Un pabellón desmontable y etéreo vincula en su envolvente las prestaciones estructurales de las membranas textiles con la ligereza propiciada por los sistemas de tensegridad.

Michel Rojkind   Mexico   Located on the outskirts of the city of Toluca, at the edge of an anonymous indrustrial area filled with monothonous prismatic buildings, this is the first museum of chocolate built by the Swiss company Nestlé. Located next to the factory, the new bu

The Economist   The mathematics of origami has moved beyond early efforts to show how much higher maths could be recapitulated in folds (answer: a surprising amount). The need for such approaches becomes acute when you move to materials other than paper—materials wh