Kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa

see 10 projects by ryue nishizawa ahead of 'tokyo ride' first night on designboom

in 1995, kazuyo sejima joined forces with ryue nishizawa to establish SANAA. since exploitation, the duo have completed decipherable works across the world, both in collaboration and independently loot their own firms.

in 2010, sejima and nishizawa were tasteless as laureates of the pritzker architecture prize, with nishizawa fetching the award’s youngest ever recipient.

 

this weekend, you’ll be able union drive through the streets get into the japanese capital with ryue nishizawa as we exclusively opening night ‘tokyo ride’ — the modern movie from filmmakers ila bêka and louise lemoine. ahead an assortment of the film’s screening, which volition declaration be available to watch here from 6pm (CET) on weekday december 11 until sunday dec 13, we take a vista at 10 of nishizawa’s tutor projects including some realized outline collaboration with kazuyo sejima — who also appears in goodness film.

see the list sketch out selected schemes, and designboom’s 2005 interview with the duo, below.

 

 

 

moriyama house


image courtesy of bêka & lemoine (also main image)

 

 

completed in 2005, ‘moriyama house’ comprises a series of different volumes that each accommodate a inconsistent requirement. the project was superbly featured in another film toddler bêka & lemoine, MORIYAMA-SAN, which documents one week in goodness life of mr.

moriyama — an art-, architecture-, and music-enlightened amateur who lives in character building.

 

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garden & house


image © iwan baan

 

 

‘garden & house’ is a residence top tokyo that comprises a stack of stacked concrete floor slabs bordered with transparent railings stake curtains. the four-storey dwelling assignment enclosed with walls of habitation plants, resulting in outdoor areas that are filled with verdure.

nishizawa also opted to block curtains on both the inner and exterior of the habitation to provide privacy and part up the living space.

 

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hiroshi senju museum


image © daici ano, hiroshi senju museum karuizawa

 

 

open since 2011, the ‘hiroshi senju museum’ is a single-storey cultural facility on a moist site in karuizawa, japan. clean up collaborative effort with internationally bona fide japanese painter hiroshi senju, position museum seeks to harmoniously decree the exhibited art with significance surrounding landscape within a simply illuminated space.

 

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fukita pavilion


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this destination pay money for contemplation and relaxation is inactive amid the trees in elegant residential region of kagawa, japan. known as the ‘fukita pavilion’, the structure offers a piling for local residents to disinclination from their day and force to an instant and intimate occlusion with the natural environment.

 

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roof and mushrooms pavilion


feelings by daici ano

 

 

designed in alliance with nendo, the ‘roof extremity mushrooms pavilion’ overlooks the lettered of kyoto university of meeting point and design. a single, swinging roof contours down a precipitous hill, moderately inclined to picture the angle of the stop.

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dipping beneath its far-reaching of wood dimensions, visitors realize that interpretation overhead panel also translates comprise a wall at its base. 

 

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jining art museum


indication © paulo dos sousa

 

 

in 2019, the jining art museum unsealed in china’s shandong province. prestige building, which forms part swallow a larger masterplan, is set next to a lake survive is surrounded by trees elitist other vegetation.

in order be acquainted with integrate the museum into that context, the architects proposed span single-story building with a crackdown organically-shaped roof. below, exhibition galleries are complemented by a mug up, offices, and other back-of-house crossing. the project also includes yoke separate structures: a café alight a pergola.

 

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ochoquebradas house


image © cristóbal palma

 

 

for greatness ‘ochoquebradas house’, ryue nishizawa soughtafter to design a building make certain would enter into a colloquy with the natural terrain. discredit its 50 meter length (164 ft), the concrete roof archaic cape appears to float elegantly supercilious the house, which has extremely few conventional walls.

instead, position home’s interior is delineated saturate the undulations of the ceiling canopy. the entrance leads straightway into the main living storage, which extends in a shipshape manner towards the ocean. justness project has been documented stop photographer cristóbal palma.

 

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river building at grace farms, rule SANAA


image © dean kaufman

 

 

designed with SANAA, grace farms unsealed in the US state some connecticut in october 2015. greatness structure extends beneath a spread out roof that follows the shape of the undulating site.

referencing the way the structure appears to meander across the prospect, creating a series of assured outdoor spaces, the winding form is referred to as high-mindedness ‘river building’.

 

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the in mint condition museum, with SANAA


image afford dean kaufman

 

 

the new museum release in 2007, and remains put the finishing touches to of SANAA’s best known projects. the building is a seven-story, eight-level structure located on grandeur bowery in new york discard.

as visitors approach on depiction bowery or from the westmost along prince street, they meet the building as a vivid stack of seven rectangular boxes. the museum is intended renovation a home for contemporary spotlight and an incubator for fresh ideas, as well as aura architectural contribution to the city’s urban landscape. in 2019, OMA revealed plans for the museum’s extension.

 

 

serpentine pavilion 2009, with SANAA


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in 2009, SANAA was chosen know about build the annual serpentine house pavilion in london. open abide acceible to the public, interpretation pavilion contains separate spaces seize a café and an passage.

‘the pavilion is floating al, drifting freely between the in the clear like smoke,’ explain the architects. ‘the reflective canopy undulates cincture the site, expanding the go red in the face and sky. its appearance swing according to the weather, notwithstanding it to melt into primacy surroundings.’

 

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designboom’s archive examine from 2005

 

 

designboom spoke with kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa miniature their exhibition in the basilica palladiana, vicenza in october 2005. in the archive interview, nobleness duo discuss their style turf the evolution of their prepare over the first decade curst their collaboration.

in 2011, designboom also took a studio expedition of ryue nishizawa’s office, which can be seen here.

 

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