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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.
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Design: Fujiwara Architects. A mezzanine-floored residence consisting of a single-roomed space, located on a fan-shaped site. The movements of the sun can be felt inside the house all throughout the year. Light coming from the east strikes the louvered boards before entering the house and reaching deep into its interior.
Design: KELUN, architects. The architects had a request from the client for “a house that can feel the resort feeling”. In order to look at the beautiful scenery, terraces were formed.
Architect: CUBO. We envisioned a mid-air space with all the core elements for daily living lifted up onto the second story, and thought about how to bring the scenery of Odawara into every room.
Design: Richard Meier & Partners. Prominently positioned building adjacent to the site of the 2020 Olympic Village the development is the first residential project in Japan by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier.
Design: Yamazaki Kentaro Design. Located in Itoman, Okinawa, the aim of this project is to support and promote local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and constructed via a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators.
Architect: SPACESPACE. Located in a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara: the architects stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot.
Design: msd-office, architects. This building consists of a two stories high rectangular box with a meter deep balcony, which functions both as a semi-outdoor corridor connecting the rooms on the upper floor, and as a roof over the ground floor entrance porch and veranda.
Design: Tezuka Architects. The annex to Fuji Kindergarten contains English classrooms and a school bus waiting area. A twisting zelkova tree dominates the site and while half of the building is exterior space, the footprint does not define the boundary between outside and in.
Design: YYAA Architects. An expanded metal stair connects each floor and spreads the sun light inside. Occupants are “living like birds swinging from branch to branch.”
A fresh-baked cheese tarts store in Hyogo by Design Atelier RONDO, architects. The architects made a sequence of intersectional curve lines from the façade to the inside of the shop like a tunnel, based on layer design.
Architect: SPACESPACE. This collective housing’s scale is intermediate position between detached housing and building. This project site is situated on the west side of small station, a big 700-year-old camphor tree passing through the platform and the canopy.
Design: Jun Murata architect, JAM. A new white louver of cedar is painted white. The surface is ‘dimly grained’ in terms of reflectivity, like metal. With sunshine angles through the day various expressions are apparent.
MAD architects have completed their first project in Japan, the Clover House kindergarten. Located in the small town of Okazaki, the school’s setting boasts views of the paddy fields and mountains, characteristic of the Aichi Prefecture.
Design: KELUN, architects. The architects designed a house for a young couple in Ishikawa Prefecture nonoichi of Japan.
Design: Atelier Ryo Abe – Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts and dining from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima, a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan.
Design: Alts Design Office, Architects. You will enjoy your time in this cozy house with different situations. It could be change your ordinary days to special one.
Design: Kidosaki Architects Studio. The owner of this spectacular Japanese house spent years to find the steeply sloping site. The architect links the beautiful vast sea of trees with the internal space. When you open the large door to the living room, Mt. Asama appears in the picture window frame.
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The house – at the top of a hill in Miyazaki City – focused on the natural features of the site, “wind” and “cliff”.
