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.
Tokyo architecture designs
New National Stadium Tokyo Designs: Arena
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
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
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
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
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.”
New National Stadium of Japan in Tokyo Design
New National Stadium of Japan in Tokyo: sports arena building in Tokyo – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – New National Stadium of Japan building: arena
Tallest Buildings in Japan, Skyscrapers
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat released the latest in its series of original tall building data research entitled Tall Buildings in Numbers – Japan: A History of Tall Innovations/
Tokyo Music Centre Competition: Design Contest
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.
A House in Tokyo: Residence
A House is a compact private residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in Nishi-Azabu—a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses—which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees begin to bloom.
Frame House in Tokyo Property
This house, with a studio for a husband who is a fashion photographer, is located in an area with flooding risks from torrential rains. Therefore, the entrance level is raised by 800 mm.
Oggi House in Tokyo Property
The client’s family owns this land in this residential district over 100 years. Their successive houses have always been attractive in this town.
Kasumigaoka National Stadium Tokyo: Zaha Hadid
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Tadao Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of the design: “The entry’s dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world.”
However a petition to oppose construction is running, claiming the building is too large and too expensive…would fell many trees and spoil the nice human scale.
Luminous Tokyo Tower Building
Nine storey commercial building design by Jun Sakaguchi Architect – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. Crowned with a penthouse rising above the 31m height limit but within the set-back line, the building glows like finely cut jewellery.
Leaf Chapel Yamanashi: Klein Dytham architecture
The Leaf chapel design by Klein Dytham architecture is within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa. The building mimics two leaves that have fallen to the ground, one on top of the other. Thousands of holes in the leaves form the delicate image of a bridal veil.
The Ice Cubes Tokyo Store Building
Design: Jun Mitsui&Associates Architects. This Shibuya-ku building was commissioned by a Hong Kong-based developer. The site constraints, including sky-openness factor (tenku-ritsu) and sun/shadow requirements were very restrictive.
By developing the formal strategy as a series of interlocking cubes, the architects were able to massage the complicated building envelope shape into a dynamic composition.
Shirokane House – Tokyo Residence
Design: MDS Co.Ltd. The small site is located in a typical Tokyo urban residential area, where houses are closely built up. A pursuit of internal spaces in this house, as a result, changes the Tokyo cityscape a little.
An area for one floor is usually desired as large as possible, in particular, in such a narrow site. For this house, the first floor area is small due to the parking space and the second floor is, instead, larger. The outer appearance is examined based on ceiling height, slant line regulations for a building shape.
House in Daizawa – Tokyo Residence
Design: Nobuo Araki. A ‘House with Self-Standing Wall’: situated in a calm residential area of Setagaya, Tokyo, the rectangular house faces southward, with a garden at the rear. Several meters in front of the house, a concrete wall has been constructed to provide sufficient privacy to the glass-façade house, while retaining a sense of openness.
