What exactly is a business which designs with an awareness of the discarding stage of a product?

We ask Kengo Kuma, one of the architects behind the New National Stadium, how he sees Japan and the world after 2020.

Electricity is every nation’s backbone infrastructure, so power companies must be tightly controlled pyramidal organizations. Here’s a “green” electricity company that topples the tradition.

Beijing is transforming along with the advancement of the economy. Architects are taking a stand, sounding a warning about how good old cultures are disappearing.

Denmark is a small country of 5.7 million people. How did it become one of the world’s happiest countries? Six key words for understanding the “ultra-welfare state”.

A Lesson from the Danish Ambassador

In this issue, we introduce data that we can reference when setting benchmarks for office design, such as how much space should be allotted per employee, or how many meeting rooms are necessary.

Regarding the shape of the desk top, bench desks are the most popular, accounting for about 70% (Fig. 5, top). Bench desks make it easier to adjust to fluctuations in the number of users, compared to single desks that are joined together.

Online meetings are a means of communication that is characterized by the sharing of visual and aural information among multiple people who are in remote locations, unlike telephone calls, which rely exclusively on audio information.

We spent a day walking the show, checking out what is new and trending in 2022.

During the pandemic many people began working from home. Now that life is returning to normal, will they return to the office, or will they continue to work remotely?

To keep ideal posture in each situation, Okamura recommends five different postures.

Sitting posture adds a tremendous amount of pressure to the back.