Tagged Japan

Opening this February in Tokyo, K5 presents a wholly original concept; a micro-complex where a collective of guestrooms, restaurants, bars and social spaces are bound together by “aimai” — a Japanese wor...

Designed by Torafu Architects, Freitag‘s new store in Kyoto is characterized by industrial aesthetics, which bring visitors closer to the original atmosphere of the company’s headquarters in Zurich. For th...

Apollo Architects has recently built a skinny house clad in black steel on a tiny plot of land in Tokyo, Japan. Measuring just 1.4-meters-wide on its smallest side, with a total floor area of 80.58-square-meter...

Ace Hotel has revealed the interior of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based studio Commune Design. Now open for bookings from April, Ace Hotel Kyoto is a 213 ...

At 238 meter hight atop Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, the new proposal of French artist Vincent Leroy creates a total extraordinary new vision of the City's sky. Like a spaceship, the proposed installati...

Stand on a 16.5-square-meter plot in a residential neighborhood in Ōmihachiman, Japan, Mi-Chan’s Sweets Factory is a 12-year old’s dream pastry store. The client’s daughter found her talent in baking pas...

Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has built a house for a couple with one child in the Japanese port city of Takamatsu, comprising a reinforced concrete structure with simple finishes. The studio develope...

Tokyo-based firm Naruse Inokuma Architects has recently completed a new capsule hotel in Osaka for Japanese hotel chain Nine Hours (9h). The business model called the capsule hotel first began in Japan special...

Vincent Leroy imagines a new proposal installation playing with the architecture of the Gion district in Kyoto in Japan. Like a suspended magnifying glass curtain, Slow Lens turns indefatigably. It seems ligh...

In Japan, there is a culture that respects the ground, and the ground is often compared to a mother. Starting from this, design firm Hajime Yoshida Architecture and Yoshihiro Mikami created a piece that changes...

From a distance, through the façade’s luminous fiberglass, the new Aesop Lucua in Osaka, Japan, designed by Schemata Architects, appears as a soft beige mirage. “We considered which color would make contra...

Over the course of three months, this project transformed two floors of a former clothing store in Kyoto into a retail environment for the Danish audio equipment company Bang and Olufsen. The pop-up store fille...

Right in the heart of the governmental administrative district of central Tokyo, London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has recently completed a 160 square meter retreat of pure sensual delight, a small bu...

Foster + Partners has completed the latest Apple Store in Tokyo. Located in the 1973 Mitsubishi Building adjacent to the busy Tokyo Station, the new Apple Marunouchi store has opened to the public on Saturday, ...

To celebrate 100 years of the japanese soft drink Calpis, Emmanuelle Moureaux has unveiled a new installation titled Universe of Words. Coinciding with the Japanese star festival, Tanabata, the work immerses vi...

Fujiwaramuro Architects has built a residence for a couple and their two children in the Osaka’s old town district of Konohana, using a pair of concrete arched walls to divide its public and private zones. A...

Emmanuelle Moureaux has filled Kenzo Tange’s Imbari City Auditorium in the Ehime Prefecture, Japan with the ‘1000 Color Wave’. Imabari City is known for its quality towels and for its leading textile dyei...

In open-plan offices, meeting rooms are usually partitioned via walls and doors to ensure privacy and soundproof. In this 33-year-old office building in Tokyo, formerly used for warehousing and R&D, the spa...

F.A.D.S and Fujiki Studio have realized a temporary ten-foot hut in Shinku-ku, Japan, that serves as a Japanese traditional tearoom. The structure, which embeds two-tatami space, was exhibited in Echigo-tsumari...

A cluster of concrete and metal cuboids combines to create the Slender House in Shiga prefecture, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. The home was built on a 7.5 metre by 17 metre site for a young family t...

Japanese Architecture firm Yoshichika Takagi + Associates has completed the renovation of a rural 1970s-era home into the two-family deformed roof house. Housings such as these which are called “Deformed Roof...