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.
Design: ihrmk, Architects. Inspired by the local ‘Tanada’, the terraced paddy field. “This house become a passage of landscape which can feel difference of light, wind, sound and width of the sky.”
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The building site is a long, narrow piece of land between a coastline road and a cliff. The key design concept, besides assuring a sufficient living space, was to harmonize with the surrounding natural environment.
Design: Hisanori Ban of bandesign, Architects. The house is a hybrid: reinforced concrete and wooden structure. Wooden rooms are surrounded by a spiral slope and an external wall which is made of reinforced concrete.
Design: Hisanori Ban of bandesign, Architects. Inspired by a row of cherry trees: Strongly connecting with nature, the ‘motive’ is an invitation for visitors by the reflective gables creating a forest of cherry trees.
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect, A house to feel the benefits of nature and changes of seasons, the property design’s main concept is to protect the family from the adjacent industrial site.
Design: Martin van der Linden, Architects. After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the town, a request to help came from a ‘longtime friend’ of Yamada machi in The Hague, the Netherlands. This group offered the town a facility where children would have a place to play, heal and come together.
Sugamo Shinkin Bank Nakaaoki Branch: Japanese building – design by Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design – Saitama building, Japanese architecture
New House in Okazaki. The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn. The site, surrounded by neighboring houses in 3 directions, is in a quiet residential area.
Toda House: contemporary Hiroshima home design by Office of Kimihiko Okada – Honshu Island property, Japanese residential building design images
‘Fusionner’ comes from a French word meaning ‘to merge’. The architecture merge in the town just like renovations merge into inside space.
Fusionner 2.0 Exhibition: Japanese event – design by Kotaro Horiuchi – Japanese paper interior exhibition, project, architect, design, images, architecture
Design: Yoshihiro Yamamoto. For their daughter who is seriously disabled, and their local supporters, the new salon was installed by connecting from the street to the main hall of the temple. To protect their daughter from direct sunlight, and to divide the inner rooms and outer graves, the first floor is closed and light is taken from the big high side light.
Design: Shogo Aratani Architect & Associates. This is a residential area where magnificent nature still remains. The site for the building is situated on a sloped land among natural forest. Two large trees with beautifully shaped branches (one is a camphor tree and the other a cherry tree) stand on top of the site. These trees are integrated into this residential building design.
Design: Takeshi Hosaka Architects. This Japanese noodle bar building seems to belong to such natural objects as mountains and clouds. It is made from soft geometry, which will not arise from the figures like quadrangles and circles. By continuously operating innumerable polygon mesh points, we have determined the shape that clears the conditions such as the consistency as shell construction and the undulations that ward off rainwater in spite of its free geometry.
Design: Kenji Architectural Studio. The house is designed for a couple, and is a wooden three stories house that is built at urban narrow site. Around the site is the mixed-use area where small houses, small factories, and small office buildings coexist together without any harmony.
Noh, a traditional, Japanese performance art, serves as the main inspiration for the architectural concept. The performance of Noh is heavily reliant upon the use of delicately carved masks.
This is a two-story weekend house with a rooftop deck in Akiya, located a few hours drive south of Tokyo. Akiya, together with the neighboring area, Hayama, is known for its concentration of summer/weekend houses
The maintenance area is designed as the place where owners will stay with their cars. When wandering about in the cloud of information, things are not recognized clearly for what they are as each bit of information is not clearly defined in either its characteristic or identity.
