On the campus of Waseda University in Honio, a city in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture, this three-story building contains facilities for sport training and meetings. The gym had to have natural indirect lighting, ideal for physical exercises done indoors
The renovation of a 1970s brutalist building and the construction beside it of a ‘green tower’ are the latest chapters of a hotel establishment’s history of more than 300 years. Contrasting with the original building, which preserves its enclosure ev
After its successful run at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the traveling exhibition 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' moves to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo. On view through 28 May, it is organized by a scenographic narrative de
Established in 2005 by Oki Sato, the multidisciplinary studio Nendo designed an archive in which to store its collection of products, furniture, and artworks, with a guesthouse attached. Using elongated box-shaped concrete structures that commonly go
The privacy of a house and the variety of a city coexist in this mental health center for children in Hokkaido. Chance is introduced as part of the design process, but is not less precise for this reason: precision planning that generates an accident
The privileged site is on a southwestwardly slope facing the sea in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. The programme, consisting of a rehabilitation facility for mentally disabled people, required an ambiguous atmosphere between the intimacy
This work is the result of the collaboration between Ryue Nishizawa and Nendo studio. The wood pavilion nicknamed ‘roof and mushrooms’ is located on a hillside of the University of Art and Design in Kyoto, inviting students to seize this inspiring na
The design for this building originates in the system of Cidori, an old Japanese toy. The Cidori consists of a simple assembly of wood sticks with joints, all of the same size, and which can be extended merely by twisting the sticks, without any nail
The passion of the Japanese for western fashion has contributed to the proliferation in big cities of flagship stores of luxury brands, often designed by signature firms. The headquarters of Hermès by Renzo Piano, of Prada by Herzog & de Meuron, the
Takanezawa is an agricultural municipality, located in Tochigi Prefecture, some 100 kilometers north of Tokyo, with a population of approximately 30,000 and traditionally devoted to rice farming. Its proximity to Utsunomiya, capital of the province,
Revestido mediante una piel permeable de piezas cerámicas, el museo Xinjin Zhi se ubica al pie de la montaña Laojunshan, en el suroeste del país, y actúa como puerta de entrada a este lugar sagrado taoísta, mostrando la esencia de la doctrina a travé
The new center is located in Tochigi Prefecture, near the Hoshakuji train station, two stops after Utsunomiya. It consists of an exhibitions gallery and a community civic center, separated by a plaza that lends its name to the project. The qualities
Lotus house is by a quiet river, deep in the mountains of East Japan. The main concept in this project was to fill with water the space between the river and the house, and to plant lotus flowers to establish a connection between the house and the wo
A t the bottom of the valley, in the city of Obanazawa in the northeast of Yamagata Prefecture, the Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Hotel goes up next to thirteen traditional inns across from Ginzan River. Although the majority of the buildings have been altered
In the year 2004, the Shizuoka International Garden and Horticulture Exhibition was celebrated in Hamamatsu, right in front of Lake Hamana. Under the motto ‘Flowers, Greenery, Water: Creating a New Style of Living,’ the exhibition also known as ‘Paci
A hut made of wood panels, with urethane coating on its exterior, houses 78 nests for birds on one of its sides; on the other, a small room that can be reached after climbing a ladder allows to watch the birds from a short distance.
En la pequeña isla de Teshima, una vieja casa ha sido rehabilitada con fines culturales, ampliándose con una pérgola muy ligera y revestida de piezas de madera carbonizada.
The project for the new Musashino Art University Library – one of the most distinguished art libraries in Japan – can be defined as a linear container of books that could, potentially, be extended indefinitely, folding and folding to form an angular
The final wooden house wants to take wood architecture to the limit, and to prove through it that it is possible to do primitive and new architecture simultaneously. One single element – solid cedar blocks – are piled endlessly, generating a prototyp
The idea of peeping through the holes of a wall became a game and advertising gimmick in the recycled shipping container that was a mail-order furniture magazine’s stand at the Tokyo Designers Week fair.
The house, baptized House before House, is one of the four conceptual pavilions built by the energy company Tokyo Gas as part of the Sumika project. The objective of the company was to reflect on the house of the future taking the archetypal dwelling
A group of dwellings with the prototypical ‘house’ shape pile up in this apartment building in the residential section of the center of Tokyo. It consists of four dwelling units, each made up of two or three independent rooms connected by outdoor sta
Facing the Pacific Ocean, on a rocky stretch southeast of Tokyo, House O twists to face the sea and frame different views. The uniqueness of its floor plan, conceived as the branches of a tree, is its spatial continuity. All the spaces – entrance, li
The building is located in a privileged site: the southern side of a mountain overlooking the sea in Hokkaido, at the northern end of Japan. The rectangular volume contains two semi-detached dwellings topped with seven sloping pitched roofs whose for
