The site is located in a residential area in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region, which has the most rainy days of any region in Japan. The project follows the traditional local architecture, aiming to create a house where people ca
The labyrinthine design of this dwelling pursues a geometric pattern of square rooms connected by circulation elements and communal zones shaped like rhombi. A work of Tato Architects, headed by Yo Shimada (Kobe, 1971), the house stands in a dense re
The miyamoto house, located in the city of Osaka, is the result of addressing a highly radical assignment: to give shelter to a family of three without resorting to the usual mechanisms of the conventional house, such as private bedrooms, wall partit
Contrary to expectations for a site that is home to so many luxury brands, Miyuki Street in Aoyama Tokyo is not particularly beautiful or elegant. The architecture is heterogeneous – a hodgepodge of freestanding buildings of different heights and sha
Devoted to the world of gastronomy and recycling, the pavilion is formed by a three-dimensional grid of girders and footings of solid wood assembled with bolts and rigidified with steel crosses.
The imposing presence of the Great Wall prompts to search for architectural forms that blend with the landscape instead of being roughly inserted as autonomous and isolated objects. The thousand-year-old stone structure moves through the abrupt lands
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
En la frontera sureste de la provincia de Gifu, situada en el centro de Honshu, la isla principal de Japón, Kakamigahara es una ciudad de cerca de 140.000 habitantes, cuya economía está basada principalmente en la producción automovilística y aeronáu
Moriyama house is located in Ohta-ku, a residential area in the center of Tokyo dotted with single-family houses and midsize apartment blocks, placed orderly on a traditional urban pattern that preserves a typically Japanese atmosphere. Drawing inspi
Located in Gunma Prefecture, approximately 100 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, the Weekend House sits on a solitary site surrounded by beautiful trees and nature. For safety reasons, because it is located in a lonely and uninhabited area, the volume i
The S-House is designed without resorting to traditional family stereotypes, which no longer play a decisive role due to the increasing variability of programs and the ever blurring lines of kinships and hierarchies. Located on the outskirts of a pro
The Inland Sea (formerly named the Seto Inland Sea) is a body of water separating three of the main islands of the Japanese archipelago, connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan. In the region of Shikoku, among the more than three thousand is
Located in the center of the Ruhr area, the city of Essen prospered thanks to the coalmining industry, though the exhaustion of this mineral plunged the existing factories into a gradual process of decay. In 1988, Zeche Zollverein, a site in the nort
The flagship store of the French fashion, beauty, and haute couture firm is a pristine white box that rises as a freestanding volume in Omotesando, one of the main and most exclusive commercial districts of Tokyo. The building, designed ex profeso to
The city of Toledo, in the northwest of Ohio, reached a high level of prosperity during the 19th century with the making and production of glass, which became the base of its economy. Though currently the city’s glass industry has practically disappe
In the center of Kanto region, sixty kilometers north of Tokyo, the Park of Koga takes up a surface of 25 hectares. Submitted to a strong real-estate pressure due to its proximity with the Japanese capital, the park has been preserved as a landscape
The museum of Ogasawara is located in the Shiroyama mountain range, in Nagano Prefecture and in the center of the island of Honshu, the largest one of the chain that forms this Japanese archipelago. The volume goes upon a solitary plateau, halfway be
The building goes up on an extensive green carpet on a corner site of the campus of the regional university of Ogaki, a city located in Gifu prefecture, west of Tokyo. Conceived as a school of multi-media art and design for artists that use computers
The design of this apartment building is part of a large-scale public housing project for the construction of 420 social dwelling, to be developed in two phases, under the supervision of the studio of Arata Isozaki, who has chosen four female archite
Located in the provincial city of Kumamoto, the dormitory serves as home for eighty women during their first year as employees of a local company. Their stay here, understood as an extension of the training experience of the young employees, is refle
The plum trees of a corner plot in the neighborhood of Setagaya have bloomed year after year in this dense residential district on the outskirts of Tokyo. Given the scarce amount of land available and how much the neighbors had grown fond of the tree
The result of an international competition, the construction of Kansai Airport, carried out in 38 months by 6,000 workers, meant a huge challenge. It had to be raised on an artificial island (that existed only on paper during the first stages of the
Located in Ishikawa Prefecture, on the north coast of Japan, the city of Kanazawa has one of the most important historical centers of the country. Built on the grounds of an open public park that is close to the urban center, in the 21stCentury Museu
Realmente la idea de comer en el tejado fue del cliente. Éste habitaba en una casa típica japonesa de más de treinta años con una cubierta inclinada de apenas seis metros cuadrados. El hecho de que el dueño almorzara todos los días en ese reducido es
A good part of multistoried residential construction was executed, from the start, in wood. This was how it was until the time between the early 19th century and the early 20th, when things changed. Its availability, its versatility, and the favorabl
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s architecture belongs to the limits. It does not reside in modelled space or in sculptured volume, nor does it rely on articulating elements or on the gravity of matter: it effortlessly inhabits the borders of encoun
