ryue nishizawa designs landfill observation platform in japan

Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa , co-founder of SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima , creates an observation platform at Oono Development’s managed landfill. Part of Final Disposal Site – A Landscape Created by Nature, Industry, and People, the installation invites visitors into a working industrial landscape and makes a normally restricted site accessible as a place of observation. The project is presented as part of Setouchi Art and Industry 2026, a decentralized festival that brings art and architecture into active industrial sites across Okayama and Ehime prefectures.

Curated by Kazuyo Sejima, the exhibition takes place within Oono Development’s integrated recycling complex, where a valley has been engineered into a vast basin for waste disposal. Separated from the surrounding ground and vegetation to prevent waste from mixing with the soil, the landfill is expected to fill over approximately 15 years.…