Roppongi Hills Tokyo Development by KPF
Roppongi Hills Tokyo by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), 28-acre development at the heart of the city, building developed by Mori Building Co., Ltd.
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Roppongi Hills Tokyo by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), 28-acre development at the heart of the city, building developed by Mori Building Co., Ltd.
New Tokyo National Stadium building design by Andrea Maffei Architects. The architects designed to create a main platform at +34m a.s.l. connecting the new stadium with the gymnasium designed by Fumiko Maki in a unique big Plaza as a City of Sport.
Toyo Ito won the Pritzker Prize in 2013 and is considered one of the best architects in the world. His architecture practice is based in the Japanese capital and produces a wide variety of work, theatres are not a speciality but just one of numerous typologies the office wroks with.
Silver Hut House, Tokyo: Japanese Residential Development design by Toyo Ito, architect.
The world’s second-fastest, located in the Yokohama Landmark Tower, “only” manages a speed of 750 meters per minute: Tokyo building design by The Stubbins Associates, Inc. ; Mitsubishi Estate Co.
Sunshine 60 Building Tokyo, Japan, tower design by architects Mitsubishi Estate Co: the elevators currently the fastest in the world were manufactured by the Japanese corporation Toshiba.
A house which has three means of vertical transportation; climbing wall, ladders and stairs. The house is located in a residential area where old and new buildings stand intermingled and buildings are rebuilt to be taller than 7 meters high.
This is a project of one family living in two houses built slightly apart from one another. One great volume of a house which covers the entire plot was supposed first. Then this volume was carved in a curve in three segments and two volumes at the both ends were built as two houses on the site.
This is a total interior renovation project of an existing house, installing a box made of deck lumber in the middle of the house. The existing house is 17 year-old, two-story, 4-bedroom wooden structure on top of semi-underground garage.
It is a house in central Tokyo which is composed of three kinds of space stacked up like toy blocks. Third floor is a private space for a single woman; second floor, a space for her family; first floor, a guest space for her relatives.
This project was inspired by the paradoxical idea of improving the environment through the presence of large-scale architecture. The Project is an office building for Sony’s R&D department, which takes the form of a thin vertical plate to ensure good views.
The alternative space Hue+ is a series of facilities seamlessly integrated into the photo studio, where the visual expression of ‘eating’ is the particular subject of photographic exploration.
Mita Residence is situated in central Tokyo on a sloped street which connects a busy commercial artery and a quiet residential area. The typical buildings along the hilly street are larger scale condominium complexes.
Not only in the context of a culture so based on the transitoriness of nature, being able to live with the seasons in the middle of today’s Tokyo is true luxury.
Storage House Tokyo : Kanagawa Residence, contemporary Japanese residential building design by Ryuji Fujimura Architects, Japan: the ‘house like a store’ is located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.
When the client found this land, we were asked to give an advice. It was a strip of pentagonal land facing west with only a pair of parallel boundary lines. Because of this land condition, it was valued lower, almost 30% larger than regular priced lands for the same cost.
The small house which the married couple and their child live stands at the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighboring houses is very close, I aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.