The 60,000-square-meter ring-shaped roof has the largest ... have reached ¥34.4 billion. The wooden structure was completed in February and delivered to the Japan Association for the 2025 World ...

Kanakubo believes the pinnacle of Japan’s wood architecture was around the Muromachi ... Particularly memorable, he said, is the renovated roof of Izumo Taisha’s main hall.

Designed to be the iconic architectural feature of the expo, the Grand Ring’s wooden roof covers an area of ... secretary-general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, and ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- The grand roof at the venue for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, was recognized Tuesday as the world's largest wooden architectural structure by Guinness World ...

Earthquake-proof joinery, 10-micrometre-thin wood shavings and a scale model of Kyoto's Sa-an Teahouse are on display at Japan House London as part of The Craft of Carpentry exhibition. Opening today, ...

Criterion (i): Himeji-jo is a masterpiece of construction in wood. It combines its effective functional role with great aesthetic appeal, both in the use of white-painted plaster and in the subtlety ...