Tagged Japan

Located between the elevated Metropolitan Expressway and the National Stadium subway station in Tokyo's Sendagaya, this public toilet by local practice Suppose Design Office is shaped like a floating concrete ...

Suppose Design Office has transformed an old reinforced building built in the 1980s into Hotel Sou, a three-room hotel located on Fukue Island, the largest island in the southern tip of the Goto Islands, locate...

Architect Junya Ishigami has recently completed KAIT Plaza, a minimalist, column-free pavilion at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. The poject follows on the architect’s previous work for the uni...

Architecture firm Snøhetta has completed Burnside, a casual café and eatery by day and a bar and lounge by night in Tokyo. The project builds upon Ghetto Gastro’s idea of using food to empower communities...

A floating concrete façade featuring two round cuts wraps this residence recently designed by YSLA architects in Tokyo. Located in a crossing along Waseda street, in the city‘s popular Shinjuku neighborhood...

Universal Studios Japan has announced the grand opening on February 4, 2021, of the World’s First Super Nintendo World. The park will bring to life a highly themed and immersive land featuring Nintendo’s le...

New York studio Snarkitecture has recently completed the design for 3110NZ by LDH Kitchen, a new cultural destination in Tokyo that offers a unique dining experience within an art gallery. By day, 3110NZ opera...

Renowned Japanese design studio Nendo has designed Tokyo's flagship store for new skincare brand Athletia. The new brand’s concept is to support a balanced lifestyle of active and vigorous movement as well a...

Schemata Architects has completed the renovation of a traditional sento, or public bathhouse in Tokyo. Named Koganeyu after the after the famous Koganeyu Onsen baths in Sapporo, the project involved refurbishin...

A hotel and a hub, Node Kyoto’s charm extends far beyond its impressive accommodations. Presented to resemble the private home of an art collector — albeit one with 25 guestrooms — the Seiichiro Takeuchi...

Well known for her colorful large-scale installations, Emmanuelle Moureaux has unveiled her first public sculpture in Tokyo.  Dubbed “mirai” (meaning “the future” in Japanese), the artwork visualizes t...

Japanese practice Torafu Architects has recently completed the NEWoMan Yokohama Store for Australian skincare brand Aesop. The selected L-shaped site is part of the local ‘NEWoMan’ mall premises, and has a...

Architect Yasuyuki Kitamura has recently built this residence for a young couple, located in Minoh, a city in northwestern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Surrounded by a rich natural environment despite the fact that...

This temporary tea house was built by Katagiri Architecture + Design and Akinori Inuzuka Design using only ‘Washi’, the traditional Japanese paper, as a structural element. In order to stabilize this fragil...

There was an era in Japan when the emperors were replaced by military dictators as the main acting government. This era was known as the feudal era in Japan, and although it was present in some areas much earli...

Architects Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato of F.A.D.S have completed the renovation of a 21-year old house in Fukui, Japan. Originally designed to withstand heavy snowfall, the building is articulated by a foldin...

Tato Architects has recently transformed a 40-year-old building in Hōfu, Japan, into a modern house and office for a brewing company. The original building has been remodeled to include living spaces as well...

Taking inspiration from the fantastical worlds of Gulliver’s Travel and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Taka Shinomoto, architect of rhymedesign, has designed an apparent in Nagoya, Japan, which plays wit...

DDAA has designed the flagship store for audio-visual brand Bang & Olufsen in Tokyo, Japan. Located on Namiki-Dori Street in Ginza, the building was completed in 1960 and scheduled to be demolished in two y...

Hitoshi Saruta of CUBO Design Architect has recently designed this home for an international couple, a French artist and his Japanese wife, balancing contemporary architecture with a traditional Japanese app...

Studio Velocity has recently topped Sanno's office in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with a large, curved, inhabitable roof. The studio has built the two-story wooden office building as an open plan int...