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Take a look at Layered Office, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture property by NoMaDoS. This is a plan to rebrand and renovate the headquarters of a company supporting the well-known tile projects of Morioka City buildings.
Maruno Corporation has been engaged in tile projects for almost 90 years since its inception. Its headquarters building has a history of 50 years, accumulating long-term technology and history.
Finally we show The Ohori Terrace in Fukuoka City, Kyushu Island by rhythmdesign. This is a wooden building that harmonizes with Ohori park’s abundant nature. The designer’s vision required a clean structure.
Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents.
Chichu Art Museum was constructed as a site rethinking the relationship between nature and people. Artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria are on permanent display in this unusual building designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
A museum resulting from collaboration between the internationally acclaimed artist Lee Ufan, the celebrated 74-year-old Japanese-Korean minimalist, presently based mainly in Europe, and the architect Tadao Ando.
House in Nasu, Tochigi, Japan – design by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect – modern Japanese weekend house built in the area height of above sea level 550m
Though its neighborhood is an old agricultural residential area, in recent times it has been changing rapidly with the appearance of a lot of ready-built houses and reconstruction of old houses.
It is a residence for the client couple with their two small children. They requested a plan without a garden. Being busy with their work and child care, they considered it unrealistic to enjoy life with a garden.
House in Kurakuen, Japan, design by Shunichiro Ninomiya + Tomoko Morodome / NRM-Architects Office: the frame of the building was formed by ‘talking’ with a site and schemed that the interaction took you as construction, and it was generated good environment.
A four-meter wide gravel and dirt road runs in front of the site. On the other side of the road is a park-golf course where several elderly neighbors enjoy their leisure time.
N House, Aomori Prefecture: contemporary Japanese residence design by Frank la Rivière Architects, Japan. Constructed on a deep plot of land this low budget project would automatically be ‘long stretched’.
Design: Edward Suzuki Associates, architects. Edward Suzuki Associates is pleased to announce that our design for a prefabricated house “xevo EDDI” has won the prestigious “International Architecture Award for 2010” from Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and The European Centre for Architecture, Art Design, and Urban Studies.
House in Showa-cho design by FujiwaraMuro Architects studio, Osaka-shi, Japan. The studio’s design philosophy is to focus on designing small homes with great views.
The outside (exterior) mountain is formed into a mound by piling up soil excavated from the slope. The surface of the mound is a type of raw material made from crushed marble called “Kansui”.
Traditional wooden temples in Japan are constructed by using natural materials that and allow easy disassembly. By extending their life through periodic repair, wooden temples produce low environmental loads.
In this space aged people who have long lived in the rhythms of the life cycle in close contact with the sea, can stand firmly between the ocean and the sky on the ground and can have experience of changes of the natural landscape and the seasons.
Inada Hospital, Japan: contemporary Japanese healthcare building development design by Muramatsu Architects
Since the client-owner had a vast amount of art collection and wished to display such art in the new house, the theme “House like a Museum” became the design generator
Shimogamo Yakocho House, Kyoto home: Japanese residential design – new property Sakyoku, Japan, by Edward Suzuki Associates Architects: architecture