Architect: Keisuke Maeda+ UID Architects Location: Tamano, Okayama, Japan Year built: 2011 This contemporary house is a display of how landscape and architecture could coexist in a perfect symbiosis. The idea behind the project was to create a house that incorporates the environment and the surrounding landscape into its proper interior. That explains the little garden with trees…
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Architect: NAP+ Hiroshi Nakamura Location: Chiba, Japan Year built: 2008 The site is located between the ocean and mountains and has a view of yachts and other boats on the horizon the seashore cliffs with beautiful layers of earth and fields full of wildflowers. The owner of the property lives in a high-rise condominium in…
Roku museum
Architect: NAP architecs+ Hiroshi Nakamura Location: Oyama, Japan Year built: 2010 There is a small private art museum in the city of Oyama in Tochigi prefecture. The owner wanted to build a room to showcase paintings that were collected by his late father Roku Tsukada and a cafe where people can drop in anytime that…
Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku
Architectes: NAP architects + Hiroshi Nakamura Location: Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2010-2012 Omotesando an avenue lined with the flagship stores of international fashion brands is one of Japan’s foremost fashion streets. As the frontal (“Omote”) approach to the wooded compound of Meiji Shrine the avenue is lined on both sides with zelkova trees. The branches…
Teshima Art Museum
Architect: Ryue Nizishawa Location: Takamatsu Port area of Japan Year built: 2010 The Teshima Art Museum designed by Tokyo-based architect Ryue Nishizawa and Japanese artist Rei Naito opened in 2010 for the Setouchi International Art Festival that was held in the Takamatsu Port area of Japan. The open gallery space features 25cm thick concrete shell with…
House & Garden
Architect: Ryue Nishizawa Location: Tokio, Japan Year built: ?? Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa has recently completed ‘house & garden’, a residence in tokyo, japan. A series of stacked concrete floor slabs bordered with transparent railings and curtains, this four-storey dwelling is enclosed with walls of household plants growing within pots. generous balconies and terraces push the…
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Architect: Kisho Kurokawa Location:Tokyo, Japan Year built: 1972 The Nakagin Capsule Tower was the first capsule architecture design, the capsule as a room inserted into a mega-structure, built for actual use. The Capsule Tower realizes the ideas of metabolism, exchangeability, recycleablity as the prototype of sustainable architecture. Located in the Ginza area of Tokyo, the Nagakin…
Jimbocho Theater
Architect. Nikken Sekkei Location: Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2006-2007 Situated on a small piece of land surrounded by narrow streets, Jimbocho Theater is an integrated project putting together a 100-seat cinema, a 126-seat story-telling theater, and a 300m2 practice arena for artistic school on approximately 300m2 of land. Despite the spiky armor plating the building…
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology
Architects: Nikken Sekkei + Kornberg Associates + Kuniken Location: Okinawa, Japan Year built: 2000 The government’s mission was to create the kind of research environment that would be alluring to anyone in the world working on challenges that are part of the OIST research program. With an initial focus on neurosciences, the plan was to produce…
Yamaha Ginza
Architects: Nikken Sekkei LTD / HOZUMA CHINO+HIROYUKI SHIRAI+TAKEYOSHI SUZUKI Location: Tokyo, Japan Project year: 2006 – 2010 To express the essence of Yamaha’s brand, Japan’s leading general musical instrument manufacturer, and materialize its architectural design, the basic themes of this architecture are set out to be “a building that exudes the feel of sound and music” and…
Musashino Art University Library
Architect: Sou Fujimoto Location: Tokyo Year built: 2009-2010 The massing of the two-storey library at Musashino Art University is composed entirely from the shelves, which will hold the books. Circulation routes spiral around both ground and first floor between apertures cut-out of the shelving. The library also includes a closed archive, which is located in the basement….
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Architect: Sou Fujimoto Location: Tokyo Year Built: 2010 Sou Fujimoto designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual…
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