ISHIGAMI Junya wins the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Architecture Biennale

On August 28, the award ceremony of the 12^th Venice Architecture Biennale was held in Venice, Italy. Architect ISHIGAMI Junya won the Golden Lion Award of the best project, the highest award in this category. His exhibition, constructed out of carbon fiber pillars and thread as materials, was praised for ‘pursuing the limits of architecture with an ultra-lightweight design’. In addition, the late architect SHINOHARA Kazuo was posthumously awarded the Gold Lion in memoriam. (Japanese)