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Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has builted a public toilet topped with a copper roof located under an elevated highway north of Tokyo's Yoyogi Park. The structure was realized as part of the Tokyo T...

Featuring bay windows on all sides, this combined residence and office has been designed by Takaaki Fuji + Yuko Fuji Architecture for a couple, their two children, and their two cats in Tokyo's Shibuya ward. ...

Renowned Japanese studio Nendo has designed the spherical cauldron which was the centerpiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics opening ceremony. The dynamic, white structure was designed by Nendo founder Oki Sato to ...

This small wood-framed residence for a family of three designed by APOLLO Architects and Associates takes advantage of the riverside views from its lot on the outskirts of Tokyo. Designed to cater to a work-fro...

Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has completed the transformation of Louis Vuitton's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, now featuring an undulating facade and interiors by architect Pe...

Art collective teamLab opens an unprecedented exhibition combining the experiences of art and sauna, teamLab Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna Roppongi, in Roppongi, Tokyo. Running for a limited time of six mon...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Located in a quiet residential area of Tokyo, Japan, the Stairway House is the latest project of Oki Sato for his friend and former business partner Akihiro Ito. The two met in school and have been friends eve...

CASE-REAL has recently completed a new store for skincare brand Aesop in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. The Japanese design firm has designed the 82.1-square-meter space as a reflection of its context. "Sihinjuku...

Japanese design firm CASE-REAL has recently designed nôl, a ground-level restaurant atelier in Tokyo that talented chefs can use for catering preparation or for irregular dinner events. Thus compared to the...

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...

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...

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...

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...