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The article features the Suntory Museum of Art, designed by Kengo Kuma, at the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo, Japan. From the main gallery, visitors descend a glass-encased stair to the third-floor atrium. Museum offices and storage fill the fifth floor, while the sixth floor holds a conference hall opening onto an outdoor deck, a members' club, and an informal tea-ceremony room.

The article describes the architectural design of the Keio University Library in Tokyo, Japan. The project was designed by architectural firm Maki and Associates. The paper provides relevant architectural drawings, floor plans and photographs of the different parts of the building. Other parties involved in designing the project are also listed.

The article presents information on the 2005 World Exposition, an exhibition on architecture that is being held in Aichi, Japan. The fair, which is one of the twice-a-decade world exhibitions sanctioned by the Paris-based Bureau of International Expositions, runs through September 25 on a park like site east of Nagoya, the industrial city between Tokyo and Osaka. The Expo has attracted more than seven million visitors in its first twelve weeks. Inside the fairgrounds, it's impossible to avoid being educated about alternative energy sources, green-building methods, and extreme recycling.

The article presents a sketch by architect Kinya Maruyama, a Japan-based architect who uses a blank book to sketch the buildings he visits and record design ideas. The sketch is one of his meals at a local restaurant which dated June 2006, alongside the sketch of the pit dwelling site in Utsunomiya. Maruyama says that sketching food is much like documenting buildings, when it is prepared with good materials, the presentation will also be well done.

With its folded jewel-box form wrapped in exotic glass panels, Herzog & de Meuron's Prada Aoyama Tokyo, Japan building takes the ancient Japanese art of packaging into the 21st century. The building's transparent, crystalline form contrasts with its heavier, more rectilinear neighbors and seems to imply both a geological permanence and the effervescence of an architectural bubble. After being hired by Prada in 1998 and visiting the site in Tokyo, Herzog & de Meuron decided to treat the project as "a house and a plaza" inserted within the dense but relatively low-scale fabric of Aoyama, an older commercial district that has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years.

Tokyo, Japan-based architect George Dasic has designed three light-filled offices for Western companies in Tokyo. Born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, and educated at the Architectural Association in London, Dasic began his career working on large office projects in the U.K. Based in Japan since 1991, the architect first worked with local architects for Japanese corporate clients.“Financial institutions, with their trading floors and massive communications and equipment requirements, provide the perfect ground for developing an architectural language built around negotiating complex layers created by organizational hierarchies,”At the offices of Deutsche Bank in central Tokyo, canted corridor walls of stone are juxtaposed with transparent glass panels to generate a feeling of what Dasic calls“suspended motion.