Tagged Kyoto

A hotel and a hub, Node Kyoto’s charm extends far beyond its impressive accommodations. Presented to resemble the private home of an art collector — albeit one with 25 guestrooms — the Seiichiro Takeuchi...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oki Sato's design studio nendo has realized the packaging for a new powdered soy sauce for a renowned Japanese restaurant in Kyoto. “Kona-shoyu” sold by Shimogamosaryo - an established Japanese-style restau...

Japanese architects Kohei Yukawa and Hiroto Kawaguchi teamed up to design this single family house in Kyoto overlooking the picturesque japanese landscape. Within the Newtown House, Japanese architects rearra...

Japanese design studio Nendo has unveiled its first public space, a 6,000 square meter plaza christened CoFuFun that includes cafés, shops, meeting space, and play areas near Kyoto, Japan. The plaza – loca...

Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects have recently completed the third gift shop of Today’s Special located at BAL in Kyoto, Japan. Schemata’s design is based on the original spatial concept of the company, ...

Tokujin Yoshioka has released first images of his KOU-AN Glass Tea House, a clear glass installation exhibited at Seiryu-den, on a magnificent platform at Shogunzuka mound in Kyoto. Originally, the culture of...

Started as a small-scale project for the Glasstress 2011, the collateral event of the 54th La Biennale di Venezia, the Tokujin Yoshioka’s KOU-AN Glass Tea House was finally unveiled in Kyoto. Yoshioka has b...