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[Breaking News]Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

OSAKA, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, and Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto pose on March 4, 2025, during a ceremony in the expo's iconic Grand Ring, recognized as the world's largest wooden structure by Guinness World Records, on an artificial island in the western Japan city of Osaka. (Kyodo)

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Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Hiroyuki Ishige (C), secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, and Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto (2nd from L) pose on March 4, 2025, during a ceremony in the expo's iconic Grand Ring, recognized as the world's largest wooden structure by Guinness World Records, on an artificial island in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto speaks during a ceremony on March 4, 2025, in the 2025 World Exposition's iconic Grand Ring, recognized as the world's largest wooden structure by Guinness World Records, on an artificial island in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Hiroyuki Ishige (C), secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, and Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto (R) pose on March 4, 2025, during a ceremony in the expo's iconic Grand Ring, recognized as the world's largest wooden structure by Guinness World Records, on an artificial island in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto poses for a photo with Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on Sept. 13, 2024, after a ceremony marking the completion of part of the Great Ring, a gigantic wooden structure he designed to symbolize the expo. Held on an artificial island where the expo will take place, the ceremony celebrated a milestone ahead of the structure's full completion in February 2025, in time for the six-month world event's kickoff in April 2025.

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Gigantic ring of 2025 World Expo

Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto speaks to the press on Sept. 13, 2024, after a ceremony marking the completion of part of the Great Ring, a gigantic wooden structure he designed to symbolize the 2025 World Exposition site in Osaka, western Japan. Held on an artificial island where the expo will take place, the ceremony celebrated a milestone ahead of the structure's full completion in February 2025, in time for the six-month world event's kickoff in April 2025.

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Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine interim hall

Dazaifu Tenmangu, a Shinto shrine with a history of more than 1,100 years, in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, unveils on May 12, 2023, a temporary hall built ahead of the first renovation of its main hall in 124 years slated to start in late May. The temporary hall designed by Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto will be used until the completion of the main hall in 2026.

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Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine interim hall

Dazaifu Tenmangu, a Shinto shrine with a history of more than 1,100 years, in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan, unveils on May 12, 2023, a temporary hall built ahead of the first renovation of its main hall in 124 years slated to start in late May. The temporary hall designed by Japanese architect Sosuke Fujimoto will be used until the completion of the main hall in 2026.

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Japan pavilion wins top award at Venice architecture exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) architect Toyoo Ito, photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, and architects Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata and Sosuke Fujimoto, are pictured with the Golden Lion trophy at the award ceremony for the 13th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on Aug. 29, 2012, where the Japan pavilion won top prize. 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. Hatakeyama displayed photos of disaster-hit areas.