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Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa - Office location: Tokyo, Japan SANAA - Latest News + Building Additions Louvre Lens Museum, France - building news Sanaa / Imrey Culbert / Catherine Mosbach photograph © Hisao Suzuki Latest SANAA Building - new photos 12 Dec 2012 New photos of this major building - refined but rather austere architecture - redolent of the simple volumes of Mies van der Rohe (eg National Gallery Berlin or Crown Hall) but in a very light style, finely detailed. But when compared with say the Pompidou's sojourn into the countryside (the rather bizarre Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban) this building, especially the opaque facades, has moments of dullness. A little more Joie de vivre would have been welcome! Bocconi University Campus, Milan, Italy Playful proposals unveiled for the Bocconi University Campus in Milan, Italy. The design is typical for SANAA architects with organic forms and a central green space. The development is located at the former Centrale del Latte - a Milanese milk-processing plant. The key elements of the design are a 17,500 sqm public park wwith surrounding dormitories, School of Management, buildings for Bocconi's Master and Executive programmes and a recreation centre. Magasin La Samaritaine, Paris, France photograph © Colin Eaton Magasin La Samaritaine - added 27 Mar 2012 La Samaritaine on rue de Rivoli is a design by Tokyo-based Pritzker Prize winning architects SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) which was founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been commissioned by LVMH to completely refurbish the building. The project is described as the largest privately funded project undertaken in Paris. Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, - New Campus, Jerusalem, Israel SANAA with Nir Kutz Architects image from BAAD Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design September 2011, Jerusalem: Japanese architecture firm SANAA in collaboration with the Israeli firm, Nir Kutz Architects, has been chosen to design the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design's new campus in Jerusalem's city center. SANAA Architects - Latest Building added Novartis HQ, Basel, Switzerland 2001- photo : building owner SANAA : Novartis HQ Basel SANAA - Recent Buildings + Architecture Studio News SANAA Exhibition : 19 Jun - 1 Oct 2010 Danish Architecture Centre - DAC, Copenhagen, Denmark SANAA architects : Pritzker Prize Winners 2010. 29 Mar 2010 The meteoric rise of architects SANAA to join the likes of Hadid, Gehry, Nouvel, Ando and Koolhaas as one of the most celebrated architects studios in the world can be traced back to the New Contemporary Art Museum building in New York. But since then the architects have kept surprising us with totally new designs (unlike Gehry they don't have a specific house style). Key buildings by SANAA are the Rolex Learning Center (Switzerland), Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 (UK), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (Japan) and most recently the superb Teshima Art Museum (Japan). Each design by SANAA architects is creative and thoughtful, rising above mere architectural fashion [e-architect Editor Adrian Welch]. Teshima Art Museum, Japan Design: architect Ryue Nishizawa + artist Rei Naito photograph : Noboru Morikawa Teshima Art Museum Stunning SANAA design - simple + powerful : "Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds." Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 : Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa image © Nick Weall Serpentine Pavilion Derek Lam Boutique, New York City, USA 2009 photograph from DLM Derek Lam New York Store Major Work by SANAA New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, Manhattan, USA 2006-07 photograph from SANAA, 2007 SANAA : New York Museum of Contemporary Art Key Buildings by SANAA Architects Projects by SANAA architects listed alphabetically: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan 2004 photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA De Kunstlinie - Almere Theatre / Almere Arts Centre, The Netherlands 2007 photo © Adrian Welch Almere Buildings Dior Omotesando - Dior Store, Tokyo, Japan 2003 photograph © Robert Day Christian Dior Omotesando Building : Japanese Architecture Tour 2011 Glass Pavilion, Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA 2006 picture © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA House in a Plum Grove, Tokyo, Japan 2003 New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, New York, USA 2006-07 Rolex Learning Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Switzerland 2010 image © EPFL Rolex Learning Center Zollverein School of Management & Design, Essen, Germany 2006 photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Zollverein Building More SANAA architects projects online soon SANAA : Further Information on buildings, awards, publications, etc. American Buildings Key Design (unbuilt) by SANAA Camp Nou Stadium Redevelopment - Competition entry, Barcelona, Spain 2007 image from SANAA, 2007 SANAA architects : Spanish Architecture Competition SANAA - Practice Information SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima (right) and Ryue Nishizawa (left) picture © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Photograph © Takashi Okamoto Ryue Nishizawa - ar+d Jury member 2004 Kazuyo Sejima was the Director of 12th International Architecture Exhibition, People meet in architecture : 29 Aug - 21 Nov 2010 Venice Biennale, Italy Images of Buildings by SANAA Architects welcome : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. SANAA - Japanese Architects Principles Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have, in a short time, developed SANAA from a Japanese partnership to a globally-recognized architects studio responsible for high-profile projects including The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, the New Contemporary Art Museum building in Manhattan and the Christian Dior building in Omotesando, Tokyo. Kazuyo Sejima - principle 1956 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Masters Degree in Architecture Joined Toyo Ito & Associates 1987 Established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates 1995 Established SANAA with architect Ryue Nishizawa 2001 Professor at Keio University 2006 Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 2006- Visiting Professor at Princeton University Ryue Nishizawa - principle 1966 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture Graduated from Yokohama National University with Masters Degree in Architecture Joined Kazuyo Sejima & Associates 1995 Established SANAA with architect Kazuyo Sejima 1997 Established Office of Ryue Nishizawa 2001- Associate Professor at Yokohama National University 2006 Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 2006- Visiting Professor at Princeton University 2007- Visiting Professor at GSD, Harvard University More information on SANAA architects online soon

Major Works by SANAA

1996 Multimedia Workshop, Gifu, Japan
S-House, Okayama, Japan
1997 N-Museum, Wakayama; Japan M-House, Tokyo; K-Building, Ibaraki, Japan
1998 Koga Park Café, Ibaraki
1999 O-Museum, Nagano, Japan
2000 Day Care Center, Kanagawa, Japan
La Biennale di Venezia, 7th International Architecture Exhibition “City of girls” Japanese Pavilion, Venice, Italy
PRADA Beauty Prototype
2001 PRADA Beauty LEEGARDEN Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Garden Cafe at the 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 ISSEY MIYAKE by NAOKI TAKIZAWA, Tokyo
Christian Dior Building Omotesando, Tokyo
2004 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
2006 Zollverein School of management and design, Essen, Germany
The Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Novartis Campus WSJ-158 Office Building, Basel, Switzerland
Naoshima Ferrey Terminal building, Kagawa, Japan
2007 Stadstheater Almere ‘De Kunstlinie’, Almere, the Netherlands
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Current Projects by SANAA Architects

Extension of the Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain House for China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture, Nanjing, China Learning Center, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland Louvre Lens, Paris, France Vitra Factory Building, Weil am Rhein, Germany Torre Neruda, Guadalajara, Mexico Berggruen Hotels, India OPAC housing, Paris, France Derek Lam, New York, New York

SANAA Architects - Awards

1998 The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Erich Schelling Architekturpreis, Kalsruhe, Germany
2002 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, N.Y, USA Architecture Award of Salzburg Vincenzo Scamozzi, Salzburg, Austria
2004 Golden Lion for the most remarkable work in the exhibition Metamorph in the 9th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia 46th Mainichi Newspaper Arts Award (Architecture Category) The Rolf Schock Prize in category of visual arts, Sweden
2006 The Prize of Architectural Insititute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Premio Mario Pani 2007 (The Mario Pani Award), Mexico City, Mexico The Kunstpreis Berlin (Berlin Art Prize), Berlin, Germany



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