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Aitoku Kindergarten
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:Aitoku Hoikuen is located in a residential district of Saitama City. Aitoku is a Center for Early Childhood Education and Care, which combines nursery school and kindergarten, and...
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1 Hotel Paris
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:Part of an ambitious development above the railways in the district Paris-Rive Gauche, this project is a sustainable and innovative hospitality building aiming to become a landmark...
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One@Tokyo
FROM THE ARCHITECTS: ONE@Tokyo is a new type of hotel situated near Tokyo Sky Tree in the dense urban district of Oshiage. Formerly one of the liveliest districts in Tokyo, Oshiage developed quickly...
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Portland Japanese Garden Cultural Village
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:Portland Japanese Garden's new Cultural Village is a modest, human-scaled set of buildings arranged around a courtyard plaza, whose fourth side is the existing, untouched gardens...
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Coeda House
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:Randomly stacking 8cm square cedar boards, we made a huge tree-like structure. Reinforcing with a carbon fiber rod (with a tensile strength 7 times that of iron) it becomes...
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Whitestone Gallery Taipei
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:This gallery with a wooden façade and interior is “inserted” into the ground floor of an office building in Taipei. The base material is a cypress board with a section size of...
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Waterfront Culture Centre
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:Project Description and Concept by Yuki Ikeguchi, Partner in charge:The new Waterfront Cultural Center with Harbor baths at Paper Island is to highlight the significance of water...
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Ace Hotel Kyoto
FROM ACE HOTEL KYOTO:Since the beginning of Ace, we’ve dreamt of Japan. We’ve spent decades admiring Japanese culture and craftsmanship, collaborating from afar with Japanese artists and brands whose...
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Shipyard 1862
A disused shipbuilding facility finds new life as a mixed-use community hub, while honoring a rare piece of the city’s industrial past. Kengo Kuma & Associates converted a 1972 ship-manufacturing...
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Japanese Projects that Blur the Line Between Building and Landscape
Japanese Projects that Blur the Line Between Building and Landscape
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Kengo Kuma Partners With Airbnb to Tour Five Lucky Visitors Around Tokyo
Kengo Kuma Partners With Airbnb to Tour Five Lucky Visitors Around Tokyo
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Také Restaurant
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:According to the old Chinese story of "Seven Wise Men of the Bamboo Grove," the bamboo grove has healing powers. In order to elicit the feeling of dining within a bamboo grove, we...
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Kids Academy Sun Hill Children's Park
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We wanted to build a nursery school close to the ground. The building is wood-structured, single-story, and its exterior wall is covered with trees and plants. The floor is sloped...
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Miraie Lext House
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We designed a banquet hall in the center of a busy city (Nagoya-shi) covered with a large roof fostering a warm and communal atmosphere.We didn’t want a building like a closed box,...
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120×120 Forest
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We designed a forest-like house by combining cypress columns with a cross-sectional dimension of 120×120.By inserting smaller horizontal sections of 120×213 between the columns, we...
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V&A Dundee
FROM THE MUSEUM:BackgroundAn international architectural competition to deliver a new building for V&A Dundee was announced in January 2010. The challenge to architects was to propose an...
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Suspended Forest
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:The site is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains in Switzerland, close to the deep forest. We were asked to design a family house which would be part of the Jan Michalski...
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Birch Moss Chapel
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We built a small chapel in Karuizawa aiming for its presence to be blended into the nature of birch trees.By combining the steel and the trunk of the birch, we designed a structure...
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Delis Yokohama
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:The building is expected to be a new landmark in the east part of Yokohama station, the area drawing attention from the public as the base to promote Yokohama’s street culture.With...
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Odunpazari Modern Museum
FROM THE ARCHITECT:Odunpazari Modern Museum (OMM), a major new museum designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, will open in Eskişehir, a university town in the northwest of Turkey, in June 2019. Founded...
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We Hotel Tōya
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We transformed a nursing home located by the Lake Toya (in Hokkaido, Japan) into a boutique-typed hotel of wood and fabric.Locally produced cedar logs were applied both for the...
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Wood / Pile
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:We designed a facility for meditation in a forest on the outskirts of Munich, not too far from Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein castle.Das Kranzbach is known worldwide as a mecca for spa...
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Week in Tech: Reimagining Public Restrooms in Tokyo
Week in Tech: Reimagining Public Restrooms in Tokyo
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