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It may be tough to teach old dogs new tricks, but perhaps they can learn to live in new houses. Japanese graphic designer and curator Kenya Hara has made it his mission to find out.

If buildings could talk, China's would be heard round the world. From gleaming culture halls and multinational hotels to cities like Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, where futuristic masterpieces rise from the desert like modern phoenixes, the sheer number of new constructions is mind-blowing.

Current power shortages have forced the Japanese to limit their energy consumption. Here's a look at several of the small building projects that are currently sprouting up in the country, all of which have been designed with freshly environmentally conscious minds.

Often perceived as the neighbourhood's misfit, Shigeru Fuse's latest private housing project is composed of three interlocking concrete tubes.

As our Reborn in India issue hits the shelves, come alive with us in the most eye-popping, synapse-snapping, pulse-pushing place on the planet. Wallpaper visits art collector Shalini Passi's New Delhi home. 

See Wallpaper's favourite Japanese architectural feats. 

Wallpaper reports on the best of recent Chinese architecture. 

Check out the best architectural designs in the Islamic world. 

The Clover House by Katsuhiro Miyamoto: a classic slice of Japanese house design, bringing spatial ingenuity to a restrictive site. 

Check out this year's environmentally friendly designs.