Designed in partnership with legendary architect Kengo Kuma — the principal architect for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium — and award-winning and longtime Ace partner Commune Design, Ace Hotel Kyoto is a 213 room hotel and lives in a part new-build and part historic structure
The size of the Hikone house is two divisions. There are connecting roads in north and south, the house has two different aspects. I made each different aspects for the front and the back.
The house is for a couple and their three little children, located in a quiet residential area in northern Kyoto city. The site environment is where neighbor houses are standing at the edge of the east, west, south boundary, and houses …
This is a lakeside cottage designed by SUGAWARADAISUKE Architects at Nojiri-ko (Lake). The design target is generating a new lifestyle in the midst of natural landscape by recomposing relationship between nature, building, objects and human beings.
Shiraiwa house is located in north of Hamamatsu city in Japan, and it is surrounded by mandarin plantation on mountain which is feature of the area. Its interior space are equally divided into two different sections, Indoor and semi-outdoor space,
The construction of Floating Terrace House takes place in a residential zone developed 30 years ago during the bubble period. Although this region used to be an idyllic countryside, following its development by a single developer to residential area as a city block
This is a small smart house in a residential area in Tokyo. We set large windows on the open south side and set a green screen as south facade by making planter boxes on each floor.
SAI Architecture Design Office have recently completed this family home in Osaka, Japan, that has perfectly incorporated both indoors and outdoors. The architects decided to place the building on the North side in order to maximize a garden space.
This box-shaped Japanese home is split level and has mezzanine floor at the center. The site is in new residential site, and this house is the first project in it. So, it was hard to say how the surround changes and I made a suggestion to arrange the main spaces on the second floor.
This is an interior renovation project of an existing two-story timber structure house in Tokyo which was built approximately 40 years ago. The clients, a young couple and the wife’s parents, were already living here before the renovation.
By valuing a long-established, traditional construction method in Japan as well as natural materials, we aimed to design a sustainable indoor environment for the Arakabe house. Lawns with rich green plants are located on the south and east sides of the house.
Perched on the edge of a cliff on Japan’s remote Ikema Island, this house provides a meditative retreat with expansive views of the East China Sea. Built of concrete to withstand extreme weather, the architects detailed the home with traditional Japanese materials to soften its edges.
