Tag: Japan

Famed architect Shigeru Ban builds quake-proof homes from rubble in Nepal



  • After the quakes hit Nepal, Ban said Nepali students in Tokyo and his friends around the world hastened to raise funds for his project.
  • Construction workers make the final touches to a prototype house of the Nepal House Project designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in Kathmandu October 15, 2015.
  • Renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban – who helped bring global attention to humanitarian architecture and continues to influence fellow architects and disaster-relief workers – devised a solution.
  • The prototype for his latest humanitarian housing project in Nepal consists of standard timber door frames joined together and reinforced with plywood.
  • His initial goal to build 30 homes in Phatakshila in the Sindhupalchok district in central Nepal in the coming months is moving forward.


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Japan Picks New Olympic Stadium Design



  • Japan’s then-education and sports minister, Hakubun Shimomoura, offered to resign over the cancellation of the first stadium design.
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced architect Kengo Kuma as the victor of a second design competition for the new Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
  • The previously finalized design had a lofty price tag of 252 billion yen ($2.1 billion), which came under heavy criticism.
  • A new plan was needed after the design by London-based Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid was called off due to ballooning costs of 265.1 billion yen.
  • Earlier this month, the Japan Sports Council released two new bids, initially kept anonymous but widely believed to be the work of Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma, submitted in concert with leading Japanese construction firms.


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Orbite Provides HPA Construction Update



  • Certain information contained in this document may include “forward-looking information”.
  • Following the dispute settlement, it was determined that working through the Québec end-of-year construction holiday (December 18th – January 3rd) would not result in commercial production prior to year-end.
  • MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – Dec 15, 2015) – Orbite Technologies Inc. (ORT.TO)(EORBF) (“Orbite” or the “Company”) announced today that a dispute, now resolved, with one of its contractors will push the end of construction of its HPA production facility and start of commercial production into Q1 2016.
  • In this document, words such as “may”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “likely”, “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “estimate” and similar words and the negative form thereof are used to identify forward-looking statements.
  • Without limiting the foregoing, the information and any forward-looking information may include statements regarding projects, costs, objectives and future returns of the Company or hypotheses underlying these items.


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AYS Ventures forms JV to cash in on Tokyo Olympics



  • PETALING JAYA: AYS Ventures Bhd has set up a jointventure company with Japanese firms Okaya & Co Ltd and Kondo Steel Corp from Japan to cash in on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
  • AYS Ventures and Kondo Steel will each have a 45% stake in the new company while Okaya & Co will hold a 6% stake and Okaya International (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd will hold the remaining 4%.

  • Oh said AYS Ventures is confident of further collaboration with the Japanese firms and is looking into potential collaboration in various value-added services.

  • When the new regulation comes in 2018, we continue to support the industry, expand our business to this country.
  • Okaya International (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd managing director Takaya Wada said the Olympic Games is a big project and Japanese construction firms that are preparing for the project will need technologies including Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology.

    “Our function here is supporting Japanese construction.


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Art, design and architecture: what to see in autumn 2015



  • The last British Art Show was the best so far.
  • AS

    The dynamism, unexpectedness and sheer abundance of the art market makes these art fairs a window on the new – and the old.

  • Jonathan Jones

    Groundbreaking attempt to place pop art in its global context or another rehash of familiar names and images?

  • This long-overdue survey should allow us to focus more on the art, less on the man.
  • The spiritual art of the past echoes in his work – martyrs, triptychs, meditation, all that sacred jazz.


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Drone Oversight Is Coming to Construction Sites



  • For some construction workers, any thoughts of slacking off could soon seem rather quaint.
  • Monitoring activity across a large, complex construction site is particularly difficult because there are so many moving parts, and because the jobs being performed change frequently.
  • Once per day, several drones automatically patrol the Sacramento work site, collecting video footage.
  • The software developed by the University of Illinois team can show how different subcontracting teams are working together.
  • At the Sacramento project, video is being captured by a drone-operating company called ImageInFlight.


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