Tama Art University Library – Tokyo Building
This Japanese educational building is characterised by a series of arches. The effect is striking, using the rhythms of the facade to create a strong architectural impression.
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The Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo, Japan
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Tokyo Architects, Japan Architecture Studios
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Prada Store Tokyo, Japan Shop 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’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.
Perrotin Art Gallery Tokyo Building
Architect: Andre Fu. Following openings in Paris, Hong Kong, New York and Seoul, contemporary art gallery Perrotin, opened its newest gallery in Tokyo on June 7th with an exhibition bringing together a collection of recent paintings by Pierre Soulages.
New National Stadium Tokyo Timber, Kengo Kuma
So much for the sustainable building claims: urgent investigation required as use of plywood likely linked to tropical forest destruction and human rights abuses found at construction site of new Tokyo Olympic Stadium by Design: Kengo Kuma & Associates.
Riverside House in Horinouchi Property
Design: Mizuishi Architect Atelier. Riverside House is a very small house for a young family built on the triangle site where the river and the road cross and makes an acute angle.
Vertical Cemetery in Tokyo Building
Architects: Hindley & Co. During the day, the onlooker’s first glimpse of the vertical cemetery is of a low lying, glowing object which appears to hover just above the surface of the city streets, something like an iceberg of which only the tip is visible.
Indigo Waterfall Tokushima LED Art Festival, Japan
Site-specific light installation by architectural office, spatial practice: the permanent fiber optic lighting installation flanks both sides of Kasuga Bridge creating the perception of indigo ink spilling into Shinmachi River.
Terrazza Shirokane Restaurant in Tokyo
Design: Hiramoto Design Studio, Architects. Located on the second floor of glass curtain wall building, facing main street of a fashionable neighborhood. As they have a great view from this tenant’s window, “building a connection with the neighborhood” spontaneously becomes the architects’ design challenge.
Cave House in Tokyo Property
Design: APOLLO Architects & Associates. A house for a single person, in a quiet residential area in Kagurazaka. The exterior walls use dark brown Galvalume steel in a length-wise, lateral direction, in order to blend into the local context.
HAT House in Tokyo Property
Design: Apollo architects & associates. The client is a couple in their 50s and both work full-time. Their plan was to rebuild their parents’ house in the urban area in order to live with their mother.
