Japan architecture design

Japan architecture designs and architects

New Japan architecture projects with contemporary building news and high-quality architectural images, plus architects background. Japanese building news from across this Far East Asian country on the Pacific Ocean.

Take a look at Layered Office, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture property by NoMaDoS. This is a plan to rebrand and renovate the headquarters of a company supporting the well-known tile projects of Morioka City buildings.

Maruno Corporation has been engaged in tile projects for almost 90 years since its inception. Its headquarters building has a history of 50 years, accumulating long-term technology and history.

Finally we show The Ohori Terrace in Fukuoka City, Kyushu Island by rhythmdesign. This is a wooden building that harmonizes with Ohori park’s abundant nature. The designer’s vision required a clean structure.

Black House Japan, Kobe Property Images

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Black House Japan

The house rests on a hill that commands a panoramic view of the Seto Inland Sea. Prior to the renovation a forest windbreak had obstructed the view of the sea from the house.

Strata House, Kobe-city Home, Japan

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The Strata House is a townhouse style rental property located approximately 200meters on a hill from the Akashi Straits Bridge. The landowner, who loves living near the ocean, requested a design with “a view of the sea”.

House In Nagata, Japan: Hyogo Property

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House In Nagata, Kobe-city, Japanese design by Tadashi Suga Architect

This house is located on the foot of mountains in Nagata, Kobe. This location indicates a typical landform of this city, which is surrounded by mountains on the north and coastlines on the south.

Casa Wakasa, Osaka Home: Japan House Images

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Casa Wakasa - Osaka Home

The house attempts to be both a reflection into contemporary Japan’s family life (sense of family vs. privacy) as well as a solution to balance individual freedom and space with collective activities and time.

Osaka-city House, Uehonmachi home, Japan

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Concrete and glass are used as membranes of the steel-structured building. The concrete wall materializes the solidness required for urban housing, while the glass skin expresses the openness.

Tanigami Gallery Kobe, Hyogo office building

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Tanigami Gallery Kobe, Hyogo office building

The site for the building lies in a hugely developed area in northern Kobe. It is accessible from the center of the city in 10 minutes by car through a tunnel. The area can be expressed as a land where only infrastructure is imported from the city.

Kobe House, Japan Property by Junya Toda

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This house is built in a development on a hill in Kobe. This triangular site is created by combining existing two lots. The area forms gently inclined landscape. New houses line up on the northern hill, looking down the site.

Light well House, Kyoto Home, Japan

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Light well House, contemporary Japanese home desigj by Keiichi Hayashi Architects. The site of the house is located on the end of a narrow lane, and is surrounded by retaining walls of adjacent sites which are raised on north and east side.

Nexus Housing Fukuoka, Martha Schwartz Japan

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Nexus Housing Fukuoka, Martha Schwartz Japan

Nexus Kashi III, Housing Project, Fukuoka, Japan. Date built: 1997, Design: Martha Schwartz. Masterplan for multi-family housing community. The designers of the six apartment buildings include some celebrated architects from around the world: Christian De Portzamparc, Mark Mack, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Oscar Tusquets, Oshamu Ishiyamu, Steven Holl.

Kurakuen II House, Osaka Home, Japan

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House in Kurakuen II. The site is a special one in the Hanshin area, a sloping residential area facing the sea, and the form rises from the road by 7 m with an ascending slope of around 30 degrees.

Meridian line Akashi Ferry Terminal, Japan

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Meridian line Akashi Ferry Terminal, Japan

Meridian line Akashi Ferry Terminal Hyogo design by Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES, Japan. This building is for a sea transport line linking Awaji Island to the mainland. Functionally, it is quite simple and consists of two spaces

Stadium600, Nagoya pachinko hall, Japan Building

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This is a 470-seat pachinko hall in a commercial area near the center of Nagoya. In part because of their flashy exteriors, suburban pachinko halls have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, but this project involved the rebuilding of an existing facility in the middle of the city.

Higashi-Otsu House, Japan: Waro Kishi

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Higashi-Otsu House, Japan home design by K.Associates: contemporary Japanese residence for two generations of a family, private rooms & living/dining space for all to gather in.