Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 26, 2012, shows the Japan pavilion at the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition. The pavilion, which focuses on the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk, won the Golden Lion top prize on Aug. 29, 2012. The model of the "Home for All" can be seen in the center.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001174098
  • Registered date
  • 2012/8/29 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2012 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 2988 × 1998 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 920.12(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

    Japanese architect Toyoo Ito wins 2013 Pritzker prize

    TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in November 2012 shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito, who speaks in front of "Home for All," where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk, after its completion in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the Nobel prize of architecture, the prize's sponsor organization said on March 17, 2013.
      2 years after Japan quake

      2 years after Japan quake

      TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (front) and Empress Michiko observe a moment of silence at a government-hosted ceremony at the National Theatre in Tokyo to mourn the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2013, the time the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan exactly two years earlier. (Pool photo)
        Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

        Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

        TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese architect Toyoo Ito. The Japan pavilion won the Golden Lion top prize at the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition on Aug. 29, 2012. Ito, commissioner of the pavilion, exhibited along with other architects the process of designing "Home for All" places where survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan gather to eat, drink and talk.
          Goldfish in bowl

          Goldfish in bowl

          TOKYO, Japan - Some 20 children invited from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, view about 1,000 goldfish in a large goldfish bowl at the Art Aquarium exhibition in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Aug. 18, 2012.
            Prince Akishino family

            Prince Akishino family

            TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino (R), the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, visits an exhibition at the Museum of the Imperial Collections in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on March 26, 2012, with his wife Princess Kiko (2nd from R), their daughters Princess Mako (3rd from R) and Princess Kako (4th from R) and son, Prince Hisahito (far L). (Pool photo)
              Empress chose kimono to support emperor

              Empress chose kimono to support emperor

              TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)
                Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda leaves the stage after delivering a speech during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. (Pool photo)
                  Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                  Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                  TOKYO, Japan - At a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012 to mark the first anniversary of a devastation earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, Emperor Akihito (R) offers condolences for the approximately 19,000 people either killed or missing. To his left is Empress Michiko. (Pool photo)
                    Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                    Tsunami anniversary ceremony

                    TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito (L) speaks during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. To his right is Empress Michiko. (Pool photo)
                      Empress Michiko visits museum

                      Empress Michiko visits museum

                      TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko arrives at a museum in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward to see a picture book exhibit on March 9, 2012, with people (crouching) who have evacuated from areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami greeting her. (Pool photo)