• Thin is the new thick: Japanese masters of minimalism win RIBA gold medal

    Thin is the new thick: Japanese masters of minimalism win RIBA gold medal
    Japanese practice Sanaa’s slender, stripped-back buildings boast walls that are just 16mm thick and concrete canopies that look as if they could float awayIt is not often as an architecture critic that you find yourself referring to the dimensions of a building in millimetres. But then few buildings are as slender, stripped back and meticulously honed as those designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, founders of the Japanese practice Sanaa, who have been announced as this year’s

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