Perrotin Art Gallery Tokyo Building

Perrotin Art Gallery

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

New National Stadium Tokyo building design by Kengo Kuma | www.e-architect.com

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.

Vertical Cemetery in Tokyo Building

Vertical Cemetery

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

Indigo Waterfall Tokushima LED Art Festival

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

Terrazza Shirokane Restaurant 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

Cave House in Tokyo

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

HAT House

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.

Next Tokyo Mile High Skyscraper by KPF

Next Tokyo Mile High Skyscraper by KPF

Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF). This mile-high tower is 420 stories tall. The skyscraper building design is for Next Tokyo, a conceptual Japanese megacity for a half million residents.

New National Stadium Tokyo Designs: Arena

Zaha Hadid Tokyo Stadium design

Architect Kengo Kuma denies plagiarising Zaha Hadid and defends his design. 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games organisers are “refusing” to pay the British architect for her designs unless she gives up the copyright and signs a ‘gagging order’.

Futako Tamagawa Masterplan in Tokyo

Futako Tamagawa Masterplan

The scheme design by Conran and Partners, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.

Terminal Aoyama House, Minato Home

Terminal Aoyama House

Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located at Aoyama in Minato ward, which is an area residential and commercial uses are mixed in Tokyo. The client couple sought to build a housing complex on the back lot of a dead end street, and earn their livings by renting a part of it.

Ark Tokyo House, Contemporary Property

Ark Tokyo house

Design: Apollo architects & associates. The site is located in a quiet residential area. The client is a couple who both work at a university. Their request was to keep two independent and equal private dens: an open living environment but with privacy.

New National Stadium Tokyo Building, Japan

New National Stadium in Tokyo

Zaha Hadid Architects unable to secure a construction company in its consortium and therefore announce that they are unable to enter this architecture competition: “It is disappointing that the two years of work and investment in the existing design for a new National Stadium for Japan cannot be further developed to meet the new brief through the new design competition.”

Tokyo Music Centre Competition: Design Contest

Tokyo Music Centre Competition

Tokyo is the capital of Japan and the center of the greater Tokyo area. The city is in the region on the southeastern side of the main island and is the most populous metropolitan area in the world.