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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.
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”.
Design: Roovice, architects. The bagel shop project began with local residents’ concern about their future due to a decrease in population and tax revenues and they were looking for the possibility of utilizing vacant houses in the city.
Design: Ryumei Fujiki + Yukiko Sato / F.A.D.S. Planned with careful consideration for air circulation as well as for the harsh, snowy climate of the Japan Sea coast, the structure is composed of white boxes of varying scale that frame spaces like pictures.
Design: Masahiko Sato, Architect. The concept of this designing is to ensure the privacy and safety, and also create a living space which makes family members happy and easy. Each room is independent of another, and perfectly blending with the nature.
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates . This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium.
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates. This small house located within a commercial area near Nagoya station is built on a lot with 43 sqm in steel frame structure of three levels, while building area is less than just 33 sqm.
Design: Hironari Itoi of sside architects. This plan began in a heavily populated residential area. The are contains a swatch of mid and high rise buildings, meaning there is not much light left over for the low-risers.
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.