Seeking simplicity through a patiently practiced planning technique can best describe Japanese architecture. Japan today eagerly responds to 20th century architecture with a delicate transition from its early fascinating simplicity, responsiveness to nature and free sprit to an experimental and technologically advanced practice.

Discovered almost by accident, glass has played a major part in our lives as the transparent divider of spaces.

Glass and concrete, two materials which are worlds apart. One, robust and solid and the other transparent and elegant. These are qualities which have defined the conventional use of these materials. Today, innovation and technology along with sheer need have brought about new ways in which these materials can be used.
By Nandaka Jayasinghe