RICCA is a bar recently completed by Ryohei Kanda from Roito Studio in Ginza, Tokyo. This project is inspired by Hanami, a Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers (cherry blossom front). Description by Ryohei Kanda: I created this design to make everyone feel Japanese aesthetic sense. In Japan, there is cultural event is known […]
Project: Comfy House Architects: ALTS Design Office Location: Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan Creative/Design/Art Director: Sumiou Mizumoto Area 105.57 sqm Photographs: Yuta Yamada The house was built in the newly-developed subdivision surrounding new housing. The project was recently completed by Alts Design Office. While planning a design with client many times, we hit upon a keyword:
On the east side of Uruma-city, Okinawa, the site is situated on the hill which is 500m away from the ocean. Panoramic ocean view can be seen on the east side of the site. When standing at the site, we conceived that we had to create an architecture optimizing the beautiful location overlooking the sea. To
Uji House was completed in 2016 by Japanese studio ALTS design office. This house is located in a housing estate of Uji city and surrounded with old houses which have been rebuilding.
Leading the world in community-driven hospitality business, Airbnb is creating a new narrative with Nara Prefecture’s Yoshino town through House Vision.
Node House is a single family home designed by UID Architects in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan. Description by UID Architects: On the south side of the site there is a rich forest where animals and plans reside and on the back north side where hilly land was developed into a residential area in a tiered platform.
Painterly Spectrum Resin by Taeg Nishimoto is a table lamp that brings colors and their associations into a space as an object. It is made of epoxy resin cast on the surface of parchment paper on which different color strokes are applied beforehand using latex paint, evoking the image of distant sky, water or landscape.
Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop planned a space that could accommodate an increasing assortment of clothing and hobbies. Unfinished House is located in Masuo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. Description by Yamazaki Kentaro: A “container” that changes as you design and live in it, and design it, on top of the challenge of living in such a house must
Team Living House is an apartment with a natural and simple beauty, located in downtown Tokyo, designed by Masatoshi Hirai Architects Atelier. Team Living The client said unintentionally that they want to spend a brilliant time together nowhere else but in their house. Then I thought, “Indeed”. I always find that houses around us are
Ondo House is a family home designed by Mamm Design in Tokyo, Japan. Description by Mamm Design: “Ondo” is a house with a cafe, having 3 floors, a basement and a roof terrace. On the north side of the plot, the house faces one of the most famous parks in Tokyo. Since the plot is
BnA Hotel Koenji was designed by Makeshift Architecture in Koenji, Tokyo, Japan. The hotel takes the BnA (Bed and Art) concept a step further, by turning the entire creative city of Koenji into an art hotel.
Project: House in the Garden Architect: Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop Location: Sakura-shi, Chiba, Japan Site Area 678.89 sqm Floor Area 94.67 sqm Structure: Wooden (partly steel frame) Structural Design: ASD / Ryuji Tabata, Takayuki Tabata Photography: Naoomi Kurozumi, Nahoko Koide House in the Garden by Yamazaki Kentaro is a single family home recently completed for
