Sentences with phrase «japanese building design»

This survey of Japanese building design spans ancient times to the present — and, with a number of interactive exhibits, the future, too.

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The hotel features 178 luxuriously appointed guest rooms and suites, Michelin - starred dining, innovative bar concepts and a award - winning holistic spa all situated within the top nine floors of the soaring, Cesar Pelli - designed Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, a site offering spectacular views of the city skyline while also providing access to stately banquet and conference facilities within the adjacent Mitsui Main Building, a Japanese cultural - heritage property.

The statue was built by Masayuki Ohashi, a Japanese artist, and designed by Weta Workshop, the special effects company which was behind the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy and has worked on the «Hobbit» films as well.

The Japanese are determined to build a railroad (later dubbed the «Death Railway») connecting Bangkok and Rangoon, through the impossible terrain of the jungles and mountains of Thailand, and they aim to use these POWs as their slave labor, including the engineers to design the massive undertaking.

Out of the U.K., design firm Gordon Murray design has paired with Japanese carbon fiber specialist Toray to build a lightweight, electric powered two - seater.

The Japanese maker is promoting the truck's American roots, making a big deal of it being designed in California, engineered in Michigan, tested in Arizona and built in Mississippi.

Accordingly, all instances of the current model (left or right hand drive, anywhere in the world) are British - made cars designed with Japanese engineering, except for the US - built two - door coupe and the sedan version built in Brazil for the Latin American market.

As with my other Mitsus, the Japanese built or designed models (think Lancer vs. Galant) seem to have a better build quality and design (this one has the «J» VIN).

Japanese automakers - scorched badly by unfavorable currency fluctuations between the dollar and the Japanese yen a few years ago - designed new models that can be built for less money.

The console, the core of the interior design, uses a traditional Japanese architectural wood joinery technique, kanawa tsugi, found in the carpentry used to build religious temples and shrines.

This week's 1995 Isuzu truck, a vehicle whose design dates back to the 1980s, likely will be Isuzu's last Japanese - built compact truck sent here.

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Japanese customers can now buy Kindle Paperwhite, the world's most popular e-reader and the most advanced e-reader ever constructed: higher resolution, 62 % more pixels 25 % higher - contrast than the previous generation Kindle, unique built - in front light, 8 weeks of battery life and an even slimmer and sleeker design — only ¥ 8,480 on Amazon.co.jp

Mid-Century Modern home with Japanese influence custom - built and designed by Daisuke Dike Nagano, AIA, in 1957.

The Chinese, Japanese and French merchants were allowed to set up businesses there, so they built many houses and shops, according to their own designs.

It's all there, and it's all effective, but Williams» work is also built upon one of the most Japanese - specific design philosophies in the history of games.

Pinault has collaborated on the design of his two private museums, both housed in historic buildings, with Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

The building has been designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (who is also responsible for Tokyo's 2020 Olympic stadium) and is due to be finished in 2018.

Japanese modernist architect Kenzō Tange (1913 — 2005 -RCB- was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.

Designed by the celebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the building - consisting of two above - ground stories plus a basement - is very simple: a glass box inside of which is a smaller concrete box divided by a grid intersected by a single diagonal line.

Since 2002 the Modern is housed in a famous building, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, close to the Kimbell Art and the Amon Carter museums in Fort Worth, establishing with them an outstanding ensemble of art and architecture.

Axel Vervoordt and the Japanese architect Tatsuro Miki have designed five pavilions for the ground floor of the building, each constructed according to a system of «sacred» dimensions, from the Fibonacci sequence to Le Corbusier's Modulor.

For this work, Miwa Yanagi takes the Japanese Pavilion, built in 1956 and designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka and covers its exterior with a black, membrane - like tent.

Outside the building, the wooden beams overhang a gallery supported by square white columns, an assemblage that resembles a classical colonnade but also suggests something of Japanese design.

The Museum's 153,000 - square - foot building, designed by the world - renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando of Osaka, Japan, makes possible the fullest presentation of the permanent collection in many years.

Designed by architect Giorgio Massari and completed in the second half of the 18th century on the Grand Canal, the neoclassical - style building of Palazzo Grassi was renovated in 2006 after a design by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

In 2007, the museum relocated to a new building designed by the Japanese architectural firm Sanaa.

Working in the high - tech and multicultural British Columbian city, where influences back and forth across the Pacific Rim are numerous and complex, as well as exploring his own Japanese Canadian identity, Terada has built a fascinating body of work that includes paintings, photographs, video, sound, books, and graphic design.

Designed by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, the western side of the complex, housing The Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, now contains the main display galleries, while The Lewis B and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building to the east has been greatly expanded to house a series of classrooms, auditoriums, workshops and studios, as well as the museum's archives and library.

The building is located in the grounds of the Château La Coste winery, which are also home to an arts centre and chapel designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and installations by artists including Tracey Emin, Alexander Calder and Ai Weiwei.

Influenced by traditional Japanese designs, the Bauhaus art school and De Stijl, Minimalist architecture, exemplified by the signature style of architect Mies van der Rohe, which he describes as «Less is more», refers to building designs that are reduced to the absolute bare minimum of elements.

We tried to design the building as a new gothic style chapel, by using Japanese wooden [joinery] system.

The building of a radically new, untested design — the AP1000 — led to lengthy construction delays and cost overruns that bankrupted Westinghouse, once the jewel of the American nuclear industry, and which has been majority - owned by Japanese conglomerate Toshiba since 2006.

Built for a client who grew up in Japan, Oregon Cottage Company's architect Todd Miller designed this peaceful, 134 - square - foot dwelling based around the traditional Japanese tea room.

The Neo even has an internal slot designed for the kind of IC card used for payments on Japanese transportation systems and elsewhere; the phone itself does have NFC, but IC cards are much more widely used in Japan, so many companies sell cases with built - in slots to give phones impromptu mobile payment support.

This house in Yokohama designed and built by the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara in 1984 picks out the feature of a circular (Hobbiton - esq) door helping it to stand out from the rest of the striking black and white room.

White color tones, creamy white, beige and all interior decorating colors that are inspired by natural building materials, — bamboo, straw, wood and natural stone, are excellent choices for Asian interior design in Japanese style.