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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Architecture Residential designFujiwara 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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Adaptive reuse Architecture Community architecture Culture Leisure attractionAtelier 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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Architecture Education InteriorsKengo 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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Architecture Exhibition InterviewsPhiladelphia 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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Architecture Residential designSasaki 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…
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Architecture Residential designHisashi Ikeda designs compact Japanese house as a sum of small parts that references traditional Machiya style
Designed by Hisashi Ikeda, founder of his eponymous practice, House Y is located in a dense residential area near the highway in Ishibashi area in Osaka. One of the main challenges is the site…