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Architecture across Japan — from Tadao Ando's concrete temples to the micro-houses of Tokyo, from Kengo Kuma's timber structures to Kazuyo Sejima's transparent volumes. A country where spatial compression becomes poetry and gardens dissolve the line between inside and out. A growing collection.
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Architecture where stone is not cladding but the building itself. Quarried limestone walls, rammed-earth houses, marble interiors, and granite chapels — projects that engage with the oldest building material on earth, choosing mass, weight, and geological time over speed. A growing collection.
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