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Tokujin Yoshioka Installs Pleating Machine At Homme Plissé Issey Miyake Tokyo Flagship Store
Homme Plissé Issey Miyake’s first flagship store opened its doors in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. In a first for the…
teamLab Returns To Kyoto’ Shimogamo Shrine With Digitized Forest
Japanese art collective teamLab returns for the third time to Shimogamo Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in…
teamLab Returns This Year To Mifuneyama Rakuen Park In Kyushu With A Scaled-Up Massive Art Exhibition
Japanese art collective teamLab will hold its annual art exhibition ‘teamLab: A Forest Where Gods Live’, again this year…
Kosaku Matsumoto Transforms Tokyo Barber Shop Into A ‘Space Of No Use’
Kosaku Matsumoto has recently renovated a small retail space previously used as a barber shop in Shirokane, Tokyo.…
House in Hokusetsu by Tato Architects Seems To Come From A Paradoxical Work By Escher
Tato Architects designed House in Hokusetsu in Osaka, Japan, for a family who wanted an interesting and dynamic…
Schemata Architects Builds Blue Bottle Coffee Under 100-Year-Old Railway Bridge In Tokyo
This tiny cafe at Kanda Manseibashi is the eleventh store Blue Bottle Coffee opened in Japan. It is…
MUJI Hotel Ginza Opens In Tokyo Early Next Month
Following the launch of its Beijing and Shenzen branches in 2018, MUJI hotel will open its third venue…
Wearable Device Allows Fathers To Breastfeed Their Babies
Japanese company Dentsu has conceived a device that allows fathers to breastfeed their babies. Recently unveiled at the SXSW…
New Galaxy Harajuku Store Features Tokujin Yoshioka-designed Facade Made Up 1000 Samsung Smartphones
Samsung has recently unveiled one of its biggest Galaxy Showcase in Harajuku, Tokyo, featuring a digital facade conceived…
Schemata Converts The Ground Floor Of This Tokyo House Into A Japanese-style Pub
Schemata Architects has recently converted the ground floor of a house in Tokyo into a traditional Japanese-style pub…
Starbucks Opens Kengo Kuma-Designed Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo
Starbucks celebrates the opening of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo. Located in Tokyo’s vibrant and creative neighborhood of…
Shigeru Ban Designs Shishi-Iwa House Boutique Hotel In Japan
Shishi-Iwa House is a 10-room boutique resort designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan.…
Apollo’s Cover House Hides A Light-Filled Interior Behind Its Metal Facade
Located in a dense residential district in Fuchū, Tokyo, Cover House’s astounding form was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates to…
Torafu Architects’ New Aesop Store In Tokyo Takes Cues From The Ever-Changing Atmosphere Of Shibuya
Torafu Architects has recently completed Aesop Shibuya store in Tokyo, Japan. The new store occupies the first floor of a building…
Ryusuke Nanki Turns Japanese Countryside Residence Into Restaurant And Grocery Store
Japanese architect and designer Ryusuke Nanki has recently converted a two-story residence in Aoyagi, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, into a restaurant and…
Alts Design Office Creates Multifunctional Storage Spaces For A Family House in Japan
Sumiou Mizumoto and Yoshitaka Kuga of Japanese firm Alts Design Office have recently designed the Noji House for…
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Designs Todoroki House Within Tokyo’s Urban Jungle
Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane has designed the Todoroki House for a client who wanted to live in…
Schemata Unveils New ºC Capsule Hotel In Tokyo’s Red-Light District
Japanese practice Schemata Architects has unveiled the second venue of the capsule hotel chain ºC (Do-C) located in…
MAD Restores The Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel With Artistic Spaces
MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has completed the restoration of the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel in Japan’s Niigata…
Sides Core Designs Minimal Hair Salon ‘FLUX’ In Kyoto
Osaka-based practice Sides Core has recently completed Flux, a minimal hair salon near Kyoto station, located on the…
Yusuke Seki’s Minimalist Coffee Shop in Japan
Untreated concrete walls, exposed air ducts, and an unfinished drop ceiling momentarily, characterize Voice of Coffee, a new coffee shop…