Molecular Cluster in Yokohama: MoNo Japan

MoNo designed the art work “Molecular Cluster in Yokohama 2011” which was exhibited in Berrick Hall, one of local authorized historical architectures in Yamate historic area, Yokohama, Japan, as the formal opening program of the 5th Yamate Art Festival.

Teshima Art Museum Japan: Ryue Nishizawa

Teshima Art Museum Japan

Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents.

Chichu Art Museum Japan: Tadao Ando

Chichu Art Museum was constructed as a site rethinking the relationship between nature and people. Artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria are on permanent display in this unusual building designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

Lee Ufan Museum Japan, Tadao Ando Design

A museum resulting from collaboration between the internationally acclaimed artist Lee Ufan, the celebrated 74-year-old Japanese-Korean minimalist, presently based mainly in Europe, and the architect Tadao Ando.

The Covered House, Japan Building

Covered House in Japan

It is a residence for the client couple with their two small children. They requested a plan without a garden. Being busy with their work and child care, they considered it unrealistic to enjoy life with a garden.

Kurakuen Residence, New House Japan

House in Kurakuen, Japan, design by Shunichiro Ninomiya + Tomoko Morodome / NRM-Architects Office: the frame of the building was formed by ‘talking’ with a site and schemed that the interaction took you as construction, and it was generated good environment.

A house awaiting death, Japan: Images

House awaiting death Japan

A four-meter wide gravel and dirt road runs in front of the site. On the other side of the road is a park-golf course where several elderly neighbors enjoy their leisure time.

N House Aomori, New Japan Home

N House, Aomori Prefecture: contemporary Japanese residence design by Frank la Rivière Architects, Japan. Constructed on a deep plot of land this low budget project would automatically be ‘long stretched’.

EDDI’S HOUSE: Industrialized Home Japan

EDDI’S HOUSE, Japan

Design: Edward Suzuki Associates, architects. Edward Suzuki Associates is pleased to announce that our design for a prefabricated house “xevo EDDI” has won the prestigious “International Architecture Award for 2010” from Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and The European Centre for Architecture, Art Design, and Urban Studies.

Mountains & Opening House Japan, Images

Mountains & Opening House Hyogo, Japan

The outside (exterior) mountain is formed into a mound by piling up soil excavated from the slope. The surface of the mound is a type of raw material made from crushed marble called “Kansui”.

Higashi Honganji Founders Hall, Kyoto

Traditional wooden temples in Japan are constructed by using natural materials that and allow easy disassembly. By extending their life through periodic repair, wooden temples produce low environmental loads.

Kenyuen Building, Japan: Wakayama Architecture

In this space aged people who have long lived in the rhythms of the life cycle in close contact with the sea, can stand firmly between the ocean and the sky on the ground and can have experience of changes of the natural landscape and the seasons.