Friend of the emperor and the prime minister, husband of the famous actor Ayako Wakao, and failed candidate in this year's Tokyo mayoral elections, the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who has died ...

Kisho Kurokawa, architect and planner: born Nagoya, Japan 8 April 1934; twice married (one son, one daughter); died Tokyo 12 October 200 Kisho Kurokawa was one of the key figures in post-war Japanese ...

You don’t have to be a Tokyo architecture geek to recognise the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Shinbashi. Dreamed up by architect Kisho Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese architect who was one of the founders ...

Apartment rooms removed from the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo are being renovated for reuse, much as its famed architect had envisioned a half-century ago. Once touted as an architectural marvel, ...

It’s easy to walk past 68 Jay Street in New York City. Don’t. Beyond the blocky, metal 6-8 above the doorway, there are no signs indicating anything more than offices inside the Dumbo building. There ...

TOKYO — Kisho Kurokawa, one of postwar Japan’s most influential architects whose legacy was a philosophy as much as a collection of buildings, died Friday of heart failure in a Tokyo hospital. He was ...

Wailuku artist Kirk Kurokawa officially unveils his oil painting of former Gov. Neil Abercrombie at a ceremony Friday at the Hawaii State Art Museum on Oahu. • SHANE A. TEGARDEN photo Wailuku artist ...