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.
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Snow Picnic Gelato Store / Torafu Architects
Torafu Architects have performed the interior and exterior design for Snow Picnic, a gelato store that opened in a shopping street of Nakano, Tokyo. The Snow Picnic customers can enjoy watching their order being prepared on the spot through a one of a kind performance whereby liquid nitrogen is mixed into a liquid concentrate of […]
Tatsumi Apartment / Hiroyuki Ito Architects
Tatsumi Apartment is a minimal concrete home located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Hiroyuki Ito Architects. The site faces not only a wide street with heavy traffic but also a subway station. We thought wasn’t appropriate to adopt steel structure because of noisy neighborhood, even though the towering ratio was close to 5. Adopting RC structure, […]
Tokyo City House / Id + Fr, Fujii Lab, Satoshi Numanoi
About the client and the brief for the project I was the owner of this Tokyo City House, I designed it myself. The beginning of the project is that I first bought a plot with a small housing in the city center of Tokyo to live with my family (actually, I made a contract to […]
Team Living House in Downtown Tokyo
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 […]
BnA Hotel Koenji – For Those Who Want to Be Cocooned Inside Overnight Unique Artwork
BnA Hotel Koenji was designed by Makeshift Architecture in Koenji, Tokyo, Japan. BnA Hotel Koenji takes the BnA (Bed and Art) concept a step further, by turning the entire creative city of Koenji into an art hotel. Description by Makeshift: BnA plans to acquire and build out art rooms all over Koenji, forming clusters that operate together […]
