Furusaki Tokyo Office Nakano-ku

Furusaki Tokyo Office in Nakano-ku

Furusaki Tokyo Office building design by Hiroyuki Niwa & Yuki Imafuku: ten different rooms demanded by the client – spaces resembling a “box” are three-dimensionally combined and stacked, instead of dividing the building by floors.

Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo

Musashino Art University Museum & Library steps

A library project by Sou Fujimoto Architects for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan: a new library building and refurbishment of the existing building into an art gallery, completed in 2010. The warm wooden interior provides enticing places to linger and read.

Ota Art Museum & Library, Gunma, Japan

Ota Art Museum Library in Gunma Prefecture

About 10,000 people use Ota City Station every day, but few people walk in front of the station, shopping streets are quiet. To try to bring life back in front of Ota Station akihisa hirata architecture office have designed Ota Art Museum & Library.

Archasm Tokyo Anti Library Competition, Japan

Archasm Tokyo Anti Library Competition

Japan and its people have been at the forefront of a digital revolution since the past four or five decades. The country has long existed between two realms. On the one hand, we have the traditional “old world” of temples, tea ceremonies and calligraphic cherry blossoms.

Tokyo Homes, Contemporary Japanese Property

Contemporary property in Saitama-shi, Japan

Tokyo homes – contemporary house designs, latest and best Japanese residences: discover innovative properties in the Japanese capital. We cover completed Tokyo homes and new property designs.

The Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo, Japan

The Japanese Sword Museum

The Japanese Sword Museum, designed by Maki and Associates, exhibiting some of the best swords in Japan over the last fifty years, has recently moved to a new site due to the physical deterioration of its previous home.

TOD’S Omotesando Building – Tokyo Development

TOD’S Omotesando Building Tokyo by Toyo Ito architect

This is an intriguing Japanese store design by one of the most celebrated architects in Japan. The Shibuya-ku store building is characterised by the criss-cross facade structure, an unusual hatched treatment of solid and void.

Green Triangle – Aoyama 346 in Tokyo

Green Triangle - Aoyama 346

Designed by Sasaki Architecture, Green Triangle – Aoyama 346 is a three-story office and retail complex in the Minami Aoyama area of Tokyo. The building is an interplay of green triangles, that articulate the spaces.

Giant Bubble Installation in Tokyo

Giant Bubble Installation

Mori Art Museum Design recently selected installation design studio ENESS to send their giant Bubble sculpture from Melbourne to Tokyo, Japan. The audience was encouraged to “please touch” the pulsating six meter-wide sculpture, which responded to human touch and closeness with light and sound.

House in Yamanashi, New Tokyo Residence

House in Yamanashi

Designed by Takeshi Hosaka architects the ‘Outside In’ house is for a couple in their 30’s and their three daughters living in Yamanashi Prefecture. The architecture provides a series of narrow but delightful in/out spaces.

Slide House in Koto Ward, Tokyo Home Interior

Slide House

Designed by APOLLO Architects, this house, in a residential district in eastern Tokyo, is home to a couple and their young children. The dark grey galvalume cladding blends gently into the surrounding environment, almost as if it has been there for many years.

Prada Store Tokyo, Japan Shop Building

Prada Store Tokyo, Japan, building

Prada Store Tokyo retail development in Japan, building design by Herzog and de Meuron, Architects, Switzerland, featuring a pillowed facade ‘crystal’ pattern – diagonal fenestration module

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Yoyogi National Gymnasium’s state-of-the-art technology and exacting engineering, along with its elongated sweeping roofline, introduced a new modernism to Japan while still evoking the grace and timelessness of traditional Japanese architecture.