Tagged Japan

Osaka-based practice Sides Core has recently completed Flux, a minimal hair salon near Kyoto station, located on the 2nd floor of a former car showroom. The existing space included floor-to-ceiling curved windo...

Untreated concrete walls, exposed air ducts, and an unfinished drop ceiling momentarily, characterize Voice of Coffee, a new coffee shop designed by local design team Yusuke Seki just off of a bustling distri...

Oki Sato, founder of design studio nendo, unveils a picture book that celebrates design with an ordinary "cup" as its main character. The story is about a cup that notices a spoon is missing to stir the coffee...

Japan is famed for its ultramodern cityscapes. But what happens when the ultramodern becomes old? New Zealand photographer Cody Ellingham has turned his lens to decaying Tokyo apartments to find out with the la...

Schemata Architects has completed the interior of the new office of music label Toy's Factory, that occupies an entire floor of a building located at a five-road junction in Shibuya where Miyamasuzaka, a slopin...

Designed by Suppose Design Office, Hotel Koé, a new property developed for Japanese lifestyle brand “Koé”, has recently opened its doors in a prominent new glass-fronted corner building overlooking a cros...

Taking inspiration from the Imabari's dyeing techniques, architect Emmanuelle Moureaux unveils her latest colorful installation, ‘1000 Colors Recipe’. Paying homage to the industry of this area, hoping to...

Japan’s famous capsule hotel concept has been re-invented for the launch of The Millennials Shibuya, a new property with five floors of 120 high-tech multifunctional Smart Pods designed by creative outfit To...

Tokyo-based Torafu Architects has recently completed the interior of the new FREITAG store in Osaka, Japan. The outfitter shop sells colorful messenger bags and accessories made out of recycled truck tarpaulins...

Japanese designer Yusuke Seki has conceived a new furniture collection for the Adidas Originals Flagship Store in Harajuku, Tokyo. The project follows a commission to remodel the footwear try-on area and social...

Japanese studio Tato Architects designed the interior of this house in Osaka as a single room built up on different levels connected by a spiraling sequence of wooden steps. For this house, designed for a fami...

Artist Rikako Nagashima has realized a tangle of deep red knots to pay homage to Anish Kapoor. Titled HUMAN NATURE, the art installation has been realized on the occasion of the exhibition "Concept of Happiness...

Located at the end of a pedestrian-only street, between Omotesando-dori and the subculture capital of Shibuya and Harujuku/Jingumae districts of Tokyo, Trunk Hotel surprises for its socially-conscious hospitali...

Renowned design studio nendo has recently completed the renovation project of the flagship store of Shiseido, the largest cosmetics company in Japan, started in 1872 as Japan’s first Western-style pharmacy in...

Renowned Japanese design studio nendo has created a snow motif cheesecake for Flanders, a firm based in Kushiro, Hokkaido, that specializes in manufacturing and selling of confectioneries. Hokkaido is located ...

Combining the ultimate in traditional hospitality with Nissan’s autonomous driving technology, one Japanese inn is treating guests to some unusual amenities: self-parking slippers, tables and floor cushions....

Designed by Schemata Architects, ℃ (Do-C) is a new capsule hotel designed for 9h nine hours in Tokyo, Japan, that offers a unique sauna experience. While the 9h hotels offer a new image of a contemporary cap...

Artist Emmanuelle Moureaux used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create this astounding installation designed to visualize and make one feel the flow of time. On show at the Toyama Prefectural Museum o...

Osaka-based Interior design studio Sides Core designed this minimal 76-square-meter store for flower shop Gigi Verde in Kobe, Japan. One element that changes the expression of Gigi Verde’s space is the arch....

Tomomi Kito has renovated the interior of a two-story timber structure house in Tokyo, which was built approximately 40 years ago, to provide accommodation for multiple generations of the same family. The clien...

Renowned Japanese studio nendo has conceived a cloud-like set designed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of "another sky", a Japanese TV program of Nippon Television Network Corporation. “another sky” ...