Architect: Studio Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects Location: Miura peninsula of Kanagawa Prefecture Year built: 2013 Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south-east coast of Japan the appearance of a children’s shape-sorter toy. Designed by Tokyo studio Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects, Nowhere but Sajima forms part of the Nowhere Resort, a series of weekly…
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Torus
Architect: Studio N Maeda Atelier Location: Saitama, Japan Year built: ? Basic composition of TORUS is a bilayer structure consisted of a white, half-amorphous box floating on the lower layer softly surrounded by glass and perforated aluminum panels. The transparency and the openness of this layer is a natural solution for the functional requirement to expose the presence…
ST-House
Architect: studio PANDA Location: Tokyo Year built: 2013 Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. Named ST-House, the three-storey building was designed by PANDA to mimic the profiles of its neighbours, as required by local planning regulations. This created a steeply pitching roof on the…
Tama Art University New Library Project
Architect: Toyo Ito Location: Hachioji City, Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2004 This is a library for an art university located in the suburbs of Tokyo. Passing through the main entrance gate, the site lies behind a front garden with small and large trees, and stretches up a gentle slope. The existing cafeteria was the sole place in…
Ginza 2
Architect: Toyo Ito Location: Mikimoto Ginza 2, Tokyo Year built: 2004 The apparent simplicity of construction includes a prism perforated by a series of irregular windows, apparently arranged at random. However, since some of these are placed in the corners (which would typically be a column) and how to look closely at the fine finish of…
TOD’S
Architect: Toyo Ito Location: Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2004 The palace Tod’s spread over seven floors, the first three floors are dedicated to Tod’s boutiques, part of the third floor, fourth and fifth are used as offices. The sixth floor houses a space for events, while the seventh floor there is a conference room and…
Mediatheque
Architect: Toyo Ito Location: Sendai, Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2001 The imposing building looks like a block entirely glazed, six floors high, varying in height, plus two basement levels. The main functions of the library and media are distributed in an apparently random at all levels, and carried out in enclosed spaces of various shapes. Circles,…
Tower of Winds
Architect. Toyo Ito Location: Yokohama Year built: 1986 The Tower of Winds , designed in 1986 by Toyo Ito for the city of Yokohama in Japan. The tower of the winds in addition to being an extraordinary work of lighting, it is primarily an urban element that interacts with the surrounding environment with wisdom describing…
House T
Architect: Hiroyuki Shinozaki Location: Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2012 Wooden ladders connect each of the four split-level storeys and a staircase with built-in storage leads up from the ground floor studio to the dining room and kitchen on the staggered floor above. One ladder travels up from the dining room to the living room, which…
House H
Architect: Hiroyuki Shinozaki Location: Matsudo, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2012 House H was originally developed in the 60’s, with its recent redevelopment, it has now become a modern home for a couple and a small child, designed with imagination, practicality, thought and style. Clean not sterile, calm not cold, this home is a breath…
The House Of Silence
Architect: Kouichi Kimura Architects Location: Shiga, Japan Year built: 2012 Japanese studio Kouichi Kimura Architects have gone against this school of thought and have designed a concrete house in Shiga, Japan that intentionally defies this notion. Named ‘House of Silence’, the two-storey building is a structure completely independent from its surroundings, appearing materially, aesthetically and structurally…
The Lik House
Architect: Satoru Hirota Architects / Satoru Hirota Location: Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2010 Japanese architects Satoru Hirota have designed a single family house in three tunnel-like volumes. The Lik House is a residence with the feeling of a resort which is both relaxed and offers a sense of intimacy due to the medium-rise collective housing scattered…
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