Suppose Design Office has transformed a 1980s house built with reinforced concrete into the three-room Suo Hotel on Fukue Island, the largest island in the southern tip of the Goto Islands, located in the west of Nagasaki Prefecture.…
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Tokyo house and coffeeshop by Ryu Mitarai & Associates Architects features single curved staircase that winds upwards through four storeys
This four-storey housing project called Stir by Ryu Mitarai & Associates is located in a narrow Tokyo alley with an overhead railway track where trains run past every minute. In addition, the site is…
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Fujiwara Muro Architects designs circular house in Tokushima to create space for climbing wall and outdoor areas
This 168m² circular house by Fujiwara Muro Architects, led by architects Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro, is located in a residential neighborhood in Tokushima on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It faces streets…
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Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects converts former brick brewery warehouse into contemporary art museum in Japan’s Hirosaki city
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA) has designed the recently-opened Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Hirosaki MOCA), located in northern Japan’s western Aomori Prefecture. The city is known for being the largest producer of apples…
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Kengo Kuma & Associates designs childcare centre in Japanese town inspired by its red roof and sake heritage
Kengo Kuma & Associates has designed a 929m² childcare centre in Saijo in Hiroshima Prefecture that is known as a town of red roof tiles and sake breweries. The building was provided with a…
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Philadelphia exhibition shines light on Japanese masters and their influence on American Mid-Century Modernism
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, a 17th-century-style Japanese house and garden located in Philadelphia’s West Fairmount Park, has announced its major new exhibition Shofuso and Modernism: Mid-Century Collaboration between Japan and Philadelphia. The exhibition…
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Sasaki Architecture designs Tokyo residential complex with units of varying heights to provide maximum nature access
Daita Project by architect Ryuichi Sasaki of Sasaki Architecture is a 536m² residential complex comprising 16 apartments located in a quiet residential area close to a main road in Setagaya-ku in the western part…