Tagged Japan

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...

Fumiko Takahama Architects has recently completed a house in a residential area of Oiso, a town located in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture, with a transparent roof canopy, which shelters an outdoor area that serv...

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...

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...