Osaka-city House, Uehonmachi home, Japan
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.
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yamaguchi Memorial Hall, Japan Building
This building is for the medical faculty of Yamaguchi University. It commemorates the 50th anniversary of the institution and was donated by the alumni association.
Stadium600, Nagoya pachinko hall, Japan Building
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.
Nipponbashi House, Japan: Waro Kishi
Nipponbashi House, new Downtown Osaka home design by Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES: contemporary Japanese residence built on an extremely small plot of land
Higashi-Otsu House, Japan: Waro Kishi
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.
Glashaus Osaka, Utsubo Park House, Japan
Glashaus, Utsubo House, contemporary Japanese housing design by Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES: prototype living space for people clustered in the city.
Fukaya House, Japanese Home in Saitama
Fukaya House, Japan design by Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES, Architects in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture on the north Kanto plain: contemporary Japanese home
Suntory Museum of Art, Kengo Kuma Japan
The entire building is covered with vertical louvers made of white ceramic panels. Choice of the latter has been made out of the imagery of earthenware and porcelain pieces that compose this museum’s collection.