SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa win Le Prix Charlotte Perriand
SANAA founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the recipients of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2025 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. More
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Kazuyo Sejima wins 2023 Jane Drew Prize for women in architecture
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has won this year's Jane Drew Prize for Architecture for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture. More
"You don't hire SANAA to make a form-based landmark" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing SANAA's Sydney Modern art museum in Australia. More
SANAA designs Sydney Modern to be "harmonious with its surroundings"
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio SANAA has extended the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a series of pavilions that step down towards Sydney Harbour. More
SANAA named winner of 2022 Praemium Imperiale for architecture
Japanese architecture studio SANAA's founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the architecture laureates for this year's Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association. More
SANAA's Sydney Modern art gallery extension nears completion
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney has revealed images of its extension designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architecture studio SANAA under construction ahead of its opening in December. More
SANAA's courtyard-filled campus for Bocconi University is informed by Milanese palazzi
Curved forms clad in perforated metal wrap green courtyards at this campus for Bocconi University in Milan, designed by Japanese practice SANAA. More
SANAA to reconstruct Moscow's Hexagon pavilion for Garage Museum
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has announced a collaboration with Japanese studio SANAA to restore a ruined 1920s pavilion and turn it into a major new gallery space. More
SANAA's overhaul of La Samaritaine department store opens in Paris
The historic La Samaritaine department store has reopened in Paris with a new undulating glass facade following an extensive renovation led by Pritzker Prize-winning studio SANAA. More
SANAA designs cloud-like structure for Shenzhen Maritime Museum
Japanese architecture studio SANAA has revealed its design for a museum in Shenzhen, which will be enclosed by a collection of hemispherical forms blanketed by a mesh louvred roof. More
SANAA reveals Sydney Modern art gallery expansion
Pritzker Prize-winning architecture studio SANAA has unveiled its design for an extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which is currently under construction in Sydney. More
Kazuyo Sejima creates commuter train with giant windows to take advantage of panoramic views
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed the Laview commuter train with huge passenger windows and a curved glass nose, which is now in operation between Tokyo and Saitama. More
OMA designs angular extension for SANAA's New Museum in Manhattan
The New York branch of architecture firm OMA has unveiled its design for the extension to the city's SANAA-designed New Museum. More
Watch Bêka & Lemoine's movie Moriyama-San, about the owner of Ryue Nishizawa's Moriyama House
The film made by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine about the occupant of Ryue Nishizawa's seminal Moriyama House is now available to watch on Dezeen in full – but only for a limited time! More
OMA chosen to expand SANAA's New Museum in Manhattan
The New York branch of architecture firm OMA will create an extension to the city's New Museum next to its SANAA-designed home. More
SANAA completes cloud-shaped port terminal building for Naoshima island
SANAA has built a small passenger terminal shaped like a cloud for a port on the Japanese island of Naoshima, which is famed for its contemporary art scene. More
Edmund Sumner reveals archive photographs of Ryue Nishizawa's seminal Moriyama House
Photographer Edmund Sumner has revealed decade-old images of one of Ryue Nishizawa's most famous buildings, Moriyama House – a full-size model of which was recently installed inside London's Barbican. More
Japanese architects have rejected the starchitect system says MoMA curator
Contemporary Japanese architects have created "a legacy with more consistency" than the famous names that dominate architecture elsewhere, says the curator of a major new MoMA exhibition (+ slideshow). More
Kazuyo Sejima to design mirrored Japanese commuter train
Architect Kazuyo Sejima has unveiled her design for a Japanese commuter train with semi-transparent and mirrored surfaces designed to help it blend in with the surrounding landscape. More
SANAA's reflective Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 "merged into the landscape"
Movie: gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones describes the reflective aluminium Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, created by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA in 2009, as "strange and gorgeous" in this exclusive movie. More