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A House is a compact private residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in Nishi-Azabu—a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses—which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees begin to bloom.
This house, with a studio for a husband who is a fashion photographer, is located in an area with flooding risks from torrential rains. Therefore, the entrance level is raised by 800 mm.
The client’s family owns this land in this residential district over 100 years. Their successive houses have always been attractive in this town.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. Tadao Ando praised the fluidity and innovation of the design: “The entry’s dynamic and futuristic design embodies the messages Japan would like to convey to the rest of the world.”
However a petition to oppose construction is running, claiming the building is too large and too expensive…would fell many trees and spoil the nice human scale.
Nine storey commercial building design by Jun Sakaguchi Architect – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. Crowned with a penthouse rising above the 31m height limit but within the set-back line, the building glows like finely cut jewellery.
The Leaf chapel design by Klein Dytham architecture is within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa. The building mimics two leaves that have fallen to the ground, one on top of the other. Thousands of holes in the leaves form the delicate image of a bridal veil.
Design: Jun Mitsui&Associates Architects. This Shibuya-ku building was commissioned by a Hong Kong-based developer. The site constraints, including sky-openness factor (tenku-ritsu) and sun/shadow requirements were very restrictive.
By developing the formal strategy as a series of interlocking cubes, the architects were able to massage the complicated building envelope shape into a dynamic composition.
Design: MDS Co.Ltd. The small site is located in a typical Tokyo urban residential area, where houses are closely built up. A pursuit of internal spaces in this house, as a result, changes the Tokyo cityscape a little.
An area for one floor is usually desired as large as possible, in particular, in such a narrow site. For this house, the first floor area is small due to the parking space and the second floor is, instead, larger. The outer appearance is examined based on ceiling height, slant line regulations for a building shape.
Design: Nobuo Araki. A ‘House with Self-Standing Wall’: situated in a calm residential area of Setagaya, Tokyo, the rectangular house faces southward, with a garden at the rear. Several meters in front of the house, a concrete wall has been constructed to provide sufficient privacy to the glass-façade house, while retaining a sense of openness.
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MoNo designed the art work “White Forest” which was exhibited in “Ehrisman house”, one of old western-style houses authorized as a historical architectures by Yokohama city government, as a formal program of The Festival “Harmony of Flower and Table” in Yamate of Yokohama-city, Japan.
This two-story house stands in a densely populated area of Setagaya, Tokyo. This is the second building of a paired residential unit for the same clients, a married couple in their 60s. The Archetype designed their first residence in 2004.
The museum proposal by architects YBGSNA introduces a translucent tower which displays fashion as an interior event as well as an external one. We interpreted the programmatic request for Architectural projections as a call to blur the gap between open and closed spaces or between institutional and urban environments.
Many buildings stand side by side in the shopping district near the train station. There were many partitioned tenement-houses in this area, but currently rebuilding has been proceeding. There is a platform of the conventional lines on the north side of the site.
The architects for this building in Roppongi, Minato were Kishō Kurokawa Architects & Associates; Nihon Sekkei Inc. The National Art Center Tokyo is one of the last works of the Japanese architect Kishō Kurokawa