As the World’s Fair opens in Osaka, Japan, the event’s architect tells CNN that Expo 2025 is about unity — and the possibilities of timber.

The devastating earthquakes of 1891 and 1923 exposed the shortcomings of then-popular European-style brick and stone ... the late avant-garde architect Kenzo Tange, was known for conceptual ...

The 164 rooms feature unfinished walnut paneling, furniture incorporating traditional Japanese-style joinery and circular ... Fourteen floors atop Kenzo Tange's skyscraper house 177 rooms designed ...

Brutalism as an architectural style emerged in the 1950s in the United Kingdom ... and the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. Buildings would be made simply of poured concrete, which would give them an ...