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Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates present See Sea Park, a project selected in a competition held by Ohi-town in the Fukui prefecture, Japan, at the end of Summer 2019 completed in 2022. The main requirement …
Continue readingKIBA Tokyo Residence: Recreating Tokyo KIBA
Designed by SAKAE Architects & Engineers, this project consists of a rebuild of a residential building on a small site of Tokyo. For adaptation of a variety of lifestyles, and to provide added value to …
Continue readingJapan-based Td-Atelier and Endo Shorijo Design have jointly transformed a machiya townhouse located in Kyoto, Japan. This machiya house, House in Marutamachi, was built more than 120 years ago on a long and narrow site. …
Continue readingRyuichi Sasaki Unveils Tokyo Music Centre
Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed architectural design firm specialising in cultural experiences has unveiled the Ideareve-Ikegami. Completed in 2021 in collaboration with Takayuki Yagi and Yagi Komuten, for the client Yasunori Kamata / K-M-T, the reinforced …
Continue readingYoshiki Matsuyama Designs Ambientec’s New Portable Lamp
Ambience presents “Cachalot”, the new portable lamp designed by Yoshiki Matsuyama. Starting from its very name, the piece evokes the fluid and majestic image of a whale. Cachalot is an evocative and symbolic object, avoiding any cartoonish or overly-literal …
Continue readingSingapore’s Ganko Sushi a Visual Treat
Ganko Sushi is a famous Japanese sushi restaurant brand that offers an Omakase dining experience. Designed by JP Phoenix, this 220 sqm restaurant is a new outlet that the brand has opened on Penang Road, …
Continue readingLocated in Fukushima, Japan, Matsunaga Kiln produces a Japanese traditional pottery craft known as Obori Soma Ware with more than 300 years of history. Ten years after the 2011 Great Japanese Earthquake that had demolished …
Continue readingGaming Facility Hall in Tokyo’s Aqua Mid Tower Grand
Pachinko is a Japanese arcade gaming machine which flourished since the 1920s, and the pachinko halls were established for such activity. However, this arcade game has gone out of fashion in recent decades, with dwindling …
Continue readingThe busy urban streetscape of Osaka welcomes concrete’s latest interior project: W’s first hotel in Japan. With a total of 337 guest rooms and suites, W Osaka asserts its presence with a 27-story high-rise building …
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