Tokyo, Japan – Adjacent to Tokyo’s historic Ueno Station is a three-storey square building constructed of reinforced concrete. This grey and somewhat hulking structure might not initially ...

An art museum in Tokyo is among 17 buildings designed by SwissFrench architect Le Corbusier to be added to the World Heritage List, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee announced on Sunday.

The core collection housed in this 1959 Le Corbusier-designed building, Japan’s only national museum devoted to Western art, was assembled by Kawasaki shipping magnate Matsukata Kojiro in the ...

The museum in Tokyo, designed by Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and established in 1959, is part of one site that spans three continents. The museum was built to house and ...

They were built over a period of a half-century, in the course of what Le Corbusier described as “patient research”. The Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh (India), the National Museum of Western Art, ...

On July 17, 2016, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO announced the official registration of “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier ... the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

where Le Corbusier collaborated with his cousin and fellow architect and designer Pierre Jeanerret to build and furnish an entire government city. The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo ...

Photo: The National Museum of Western Art The core collection housed in this 1959 Le Corbusier-designed building ... one day to devote to museum-going in Tokyo and are interested in Japanese ...

The Palace of Assembly, part of the Capital Complex in Chandigarh La Maison Guiette in Antwerp, Belgium The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo Le Corbusier House at the Weissenhof Estate in ...

Yesterday, the World Heritage Committee inscribed four new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, including a “transnational serial property” that includes 17 of Le Corbusier’s ...