New Tokyo architecture projects with Japanese building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Tokyo building news from across the capital city of Japan.
Furusaki Tokyo Office building design by Hiroyuki Niwa & Yuki Imafuku: ten different rooms demanded by the client – spaces resembling a “box” are three-dimensionally combined and stacked, instead of dividing the building by floors.
The site for the Tokyo Parking Tower Competition is in the Minato area, an ‘interior vacuum’ that is currently used as a crossroads. The building should reactivate the entire area.
Hopscotch House in Saitama near Tokyo, Japan, by Hiramoto Design Studio, for a family who had lived individually and decided to live together under one roof.
A library project by Sou Fujimoto Architects for one of the distinguished art universities in Japan: a new library building and refurbishment of the existing building into an art gallery, completed in 2010. The warm wooden interior provides enticing places to linger and read.
About 10,000 people use Ota City Station every day, but few people walk in front of the station, shopping streets are quiet. To try to bring life back in front of Ota Station akihisa hirata architecture office have designed Ota Art Museum & Library.
Japan and its people have been at the forefront of a digital revolution since the past four or five decades. The country has long existed between two realms. On the one hand, we have the traditional “old world” of temples, tea ceremonies and calligraphic cherry blossoms.
Tokyo homes – contemporary house designs, latest and best Japanese residences: discover innovative properties in the Japanese capital. We cover completed Tokyo homes and new property designs.
This Japanese educational building is characterised by a series of arches. The effect is striking, using the rhythms of the facade to create a strong architectural impression.
The Japanese Sword Museum, designed by Maki and Associates, exhibiting some of the best swords in Japan over the last fifty years, has recently moved to a new site due to the physical deterioration of its previous home.
This is an intriguing Japanese store design by one of the most celebrated architects in Japan. The Shibuya-ku store building is characterised by the criss-cross facade structure, an unusual hatched treatment of solid and void.
Designed by Sasaki Architecture, Green Triangle – Aoyama 346 is a three-story office and retail complex in the Minami Aoyama area of Tokyo. The building is an interplay of green triangles, that articulate the spaces.
Mori Art Museum Design recently selected installation design studio ENESS to send their giant Bubble sculpture from Melbourne to Tokyo, Japan. The audience was encouraged to “please touch” the pulsating six meter-wide sculpture, which responded to human touch and closeness with light and sound.
Designed by Takeshi Hosaka architects the ‘Outside In’ house is for a couple in their 30’s and their three daughters living in Yamanashi Prefecture. The architecture provides a series of narrow but delightful in/out spaces.
Designed by APOLLO Architects, this house, in a residential district in eastern Tokyo, is home to a couple and their young children. The dark grey galvalume cladding blends gently into the surrounding environment, almost as if it has been there for many years.
Tokyo architects – Japan architecture studios, Japanese design offices – Tokyo architecture studios: key contemporary design practices in Japan.
Prada Store Tokyo retail development in Japan, building design by Herzog and de Meuron, Architects, Switzerland, featuring a pillowed facade ‘crystal’ pattern – diagonal fenestration module
Yoyogi National Gymnasium’s state-of-the-art technology and exacting engineering, along with its elongated sweeping roofline, introduced a new modernism to Japan while still evoking the grace and timelessness of traditional Japanese architecture.