Architect: Terunobu Fujimori Location: Chino, Nagano prefecture, Japan Year built: ?? The tea house, in japanese “Takasuki-an”, located in Chino in Nagano Prefecture in Japan is built on top of two chestnut trees placed on the side of a mountain. L ‘architect Fujimori has designed and built the structure referring to the traditional tea ceremony….
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White Hut and Tilia Japonica
Architect: Takahashi Maki and Associates Location: Saitama prefecture, Japan Year built: 2010 The building was rebuilt in a residential area developed in 1960 that was used as rice fields, and before a probable Arakawa distributary. The building was located to the west side of the site to allow a line of sight between the road on…
DST
Architect: aat + Makoto Yokomizo Location: Shibuya, Tokio, Japan Year built: 2009 The challenge of this project was to create 40% of free space on the property and to attract visitors to the upper floor, without the use of an elevator. The space that is at Crerar is a dead end that contains a retaining wall…
Tem House
Architect: AAT + Makoto Yokomizo Location: Taito-ku, Tokyo, Giappone Year built: Built in a residential neighborhood in the city of Taito in Tokyo, the Tem House is a residence of three floors. This comes as a white building, has the peaked roof of a transparent material, so that the sunlight can penetrate and distribute. Night lights…
Museum Karuizawa
Architect: Hiroshi Senju & Ryue Nishizawa Location: Nagano, Japan Year built: 2011 The museum is known for its harmony of nature and culture that exposes. The Museum Karuizawa celebrates the confluence of nature, art and architecture. The project has also collaborated another famous architect Ryue Nishizawa that the design has embraced the natural contours of the landscape…
The Roof and Mushrooms pavilion
Architect: Nendo and Ryue Nishizawa Location: Kyoto Year built: 2013 Nendo and Ryue Nishizawa have collaborated to design a new building for the University of Art and Design. It is located on a steep hill covered with lush vegetation, consisting of 36 ridges of the hills that line the east of Kyoto. A single element is…
Moriyama House
Architect: Ryue Nishizawa Location: Tokyo Year built: 2005 This architecture takes the concept of the Japanese tradition of the apartment minimum and yet reconciled as a whole one with the city. Ten parallelepipeds with different floor areas and heights are distributed freely through a tract of land not much larger than they are lots. The load-bearing…
Artificial Topography
Architects: Ryumei Fujiki Location: Kobe city, Japan Client: Kobe Biennial Committee Project Year: 2011 The architect’s idea was to dig the interior of a container to build an amorphous space as a quarry. This “artificial Topography” is made of only plastic materials, consisting of about 1000 sheets of soft plastic material with a thickness of…
Scape House
Architect: Kouichi Kimura Location: Shiga, Japan Year built: 2014 The project of the residence Scape House, in Shiga, Japan, comes from the need to maximize the panoramic views of the lake landscape, but without compromising its domestic intimacy. The solution of ‘architect Kouichi Kimura combines versatile spaces through the use of raw concrete and openings of…
ARKNOVA
Architect: Anish Kapoor and Arata Isozaki Location: Matsushima and other cities affected by the tsunami Year built: 2013 ‘Ark nova’, the world’s first inflatable concert hall, will soon tour areas of japan that were devastated in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.Designed by british sculptor Anish Kapoor and japanese architect Arata Isozaki. The mobile structure will…
Sunwell Muse
Architect: Takato Tamagami and Be-Fun Design Location: Sendagaya, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Japan Year built: 2008 A curving chasm slices off the corner of this showroom building in western Tokyo to create a passageway to its entrance. The five-storey-high concrete block contains galleries and a workplace for textile company Sunwell. Glass bridges cross the narrow, timber-lined alleyway on the…
Café/Day
Architet: Design Office Location: Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan Year built: 2010 The asphalt surface of a car park extends inside this coffee. Markings painted white continue over the surface of the inner floor, indicating route directions and pedestrian crossing. Recycled car seats are used as chairs and benches are modeled on the bus-stop to sit. Café / day is located…
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