Japanese Architects Make Their Mark On Cities

26 December 2004 - 1:00pm

A pair of architects -- Sejima & Nishizawa -- are about to make their mark on cities across the globe.

"If you haven't heard of her or her design partner Ryue Nishizawa -- their Tokyo firm is called SANAA -- you soon will... Their first project outside Japan, a glass pavilion for the glass collection of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, is set to open in early 2006. Their theater in Almere, near Amsterdam, is under construction and their New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan will break ground in late 2005."

Source: Newsweek, December 27, 2004
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