All Blog Posts Tagged 'Japan' (35)

Slit House by EDO

Slipped into a 7 x 50 meter site, the Slit House challenges the traditional notion of large glass-filled windows. A 105 meter wall wraps around the site, slashed with sixty 140 mm wide slits. The architecture by…

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Added by Springer on January 6, 2012 at 9:53am — No Comments

Shelf-Pod

This is for all of you book-lovers out there!

The Shelf-Pod is a private residence and library located in Osaka, Japan. Created by…

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Added by Springer on July 7, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Tree House

Nope, I'm not blogging about another tree house, instead this is a grounded residential home named Tree House, by Mount Fuki Architects Studio. :)

On a hill in northern Tokyo,…

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Added by Springer on April 13, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

House in Wakabadai

The eye-catching House in Wakabadai is located in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and was designed by Satoshi Okada…

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Added by Springer on April 7, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Mebius House

I’d love to see more pictures of this house and its layout. This is the Mebius house by Tokyo-based Atelier Tekuto. The home is designed to embrace nature and impart its beauty to the home’s inhabitants. But what a task! …

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Added by Springer on March 31, 2011 at 6:00am — No Comments

Playground Slide House

After recently writing about the Rainbow House, I was amused to find another playful home design. The…

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Added by Springer on February 28, 2011 at 5:00am — No Comments

Nowhere But Sajima

Nowhere But Sajima is a vacation home located about an hour from Tokyo, near Mt. Fuji. The home sits next to the ocean, with a view of the lush verdant island of Enoshima. However, this same…

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Added by Springer on January 6, 2011 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Tsui No Sumika

Tsui No Sumika is a home located in Uji in Kyoto, Japan, an idyllic setting with green mountains and a gurgling stream. The home was designed by Kite Architecture for a couple that has been married for over 30 years. The aim of the project was to afford the husband and wife each their… Continue

Added by Springer on November 15, 2010 at 1:01pm — No Comments

Water/Glass

The other-worldly form of the villa Water/Glass by the architectural firm Kengo Kuma & Associates was influenced by the philosophies of German architect Bruno Taut, particularly his praise for the Katsura… Continue

Added by Springer on October 26, 2010 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Shell by ARTechnic

In. Love. That's how I feel about Shell by Japanese architecture firm ARTechnic. I'm sure my husband thought I'd never say that about a concrete structure, but this is so beautiful. I yearn to inhabit the space.

Shell is a villa located in Kitasaku, Nagano in Japan. It was built in… Continue

Added by Springer on September 14, 2010 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Villa Saitan

Villa Saitan by EASTERN Design Office, Inc. is located in Kyoto, Japan. It is a residential structure containing eleven housing units, and is bisected by a narrow corridor that is a feature peculiar to Kyoto. The elegant concrete facade is cut to resemble forms found in nature. The 16 x 19 meter site was once the location of the Shihachijo palace, the residence of the… Continue

Added by Springer on September 11, 2010 at 2:50pm — 2 Comments

Old News is Green News

ACROS has been open since 1995 in Tenjin in the middle of Fukuoka, Japan, but it is still and eye-catcher. Designed by Emilio Ambasz and Associates, the 1,000,000 square foot building had to both provide a multi-use "symbolically decisive" building and still… Continue

Added by Springer on July 22, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Kanagawa Institute of Technology

This beautiful glass structure was designed by Tokyo-based firm Junya Ishigami and Associates for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Despite the practical trend in constructing earthquake-proof buildings in Japan, this studio has a lovely full-length glass facade with rows of skylights running the entire length of… Continue

Added by Springer on July 1, 2010 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Sumika Pavilion

I'm a huge fan of taking a moment to find serenity in nature - even if I'm just in my own garden or under the shade of a single tree. And so I have a soft spot for architecture that invites a similar feeling, which is why I love the Sumika Pavilion by Toyo Ito.

Completed in 2007, the pavilion… Continue

Added by Springer on June 24, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Vertical Omotesando Street

This is the rainbow-lit proposal from Wai Think Tank for the Fashion Museum Competition in Tokyo, Japan. Omotesando Street has become a dynamic force in the fashion industry. The challenge was to…

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Added by Springer on June 8, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments