Tagged Japan

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...

Homme Plissé Issey Miyake’s first flagship store opened its doors in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. In a first for the Japanese brand, the pleating machine – used to create Issey Miyake’s signature pleated fabric...

Japanese art collective teamLab returns for the third time to Shimogamo Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyoto, to hold the exhibition, Digitized Forest at the World Heritage Site of Shimogamo Shrine, Ky...

Japanese art collective teamLab will hold its annual art exhibition 'teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live', again this year at the Mifuneyama Rakuen Park in Takeo-city, Saga, Japan. This is the fifth year that th...

Kosaku Matsumoto has recently renovated a small retail space previously used as a barber shop in Shirokane, Tokyo. The owner had no specific request for the renovated building, except for it would be used as an...

Tato Architects designed House in Hokusetsu in Osaka, Japan, for a family who wanted an interesting and dynamic home that makes it easier to spend time together. The space is characterized by a geometric patter...

This tiny cafe at Kanda Manseibashi is the eleventh store Blue Bottle Coffee opened in Japan. It is their smallest store with the floor area of 25 square meters and the first takeout-only cafe without seating i...

Following the launch of its Beijing and Shenzen branches in 2018, MUJI hotel will open its third venue in the brand’s hometown Japan early next month. Described by the Japanese brand as "anti-gorgeous, anti-c...

Japanese company Dentsu has conceived a device that allows fathers to breastfeed their babies. Recently unveiled at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, the Father’s Nursing Assistant is a useful gadget that ...