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Suzuko Yamada encloses reconfigurable Tokyo home in permanent scaffolding

August 27, 2020 Jennifer Hahn 0

This Japanese home designed by architect Suzuko Yamada is connected to its garden through a scaffold of steel pipes and platforms that can be adapted according to the owner’s needs. Set in a residential area of Tokyo, the three-storey house and its gabled roof are entirely clad in sheets of corrugated metal, save only for

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Concrete Tokyo toilet by Wonderwall references primitive Japanese huts

August 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Modern Kawaya Tokyo Toilet by Wonderwall in Shibuya, Japan

A maze of board-marked concrete walls encloses this public toilet in Tokyo, which interior design studio Wonderwall created for the Tokyo Toilet project and modelled on prehistoric Japanese architecture. Located in Ebisu Park in the capital’s Shibuya district, the toilet block is intended to resemble “primitive and simple” object in the park, rather than standing

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Fumihiko Maki tops Tokyo toilet with “cheerful roof”

August 18, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Public toilet in Tokyo's Ebisu East Park by Fumihiko Maki

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki has replaced a public toilet in Tokyo’s “Octopus Park” with a new facility topped with a thin white roof that it has dubbed the Squid Toilet. Built as part of the Tokyo Toilet project to upgrade toilets in the downtown Shibuya district by the non-profit Nippon Foundation, the facility was put up

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Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Public toilets in Tokyo's Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-No-Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban for the Tokyo Toilet project

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets in Tokyo with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. Built in the city’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park, the pair of restrooms feature tinted-glass walls to enable those approaching to easily check whether they are in use

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Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets in Tokyo with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. Built in the city’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park, the pair of restrooms feature tinted-glass walls to enable those approaching to easily check whether they are in use

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Nao Tamura bases triangular toilet block in Tokyo on Japanese craft of Origata

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Triangle toilet in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan by Nao Tamura

New York-based Japanese designer Nao Tamura has squeezed a red public toilet block onto a triangular plot in Tokyo’s downtown Shibuya district. The triangular structure was built as part of the Tokyo Toilet project run by the non-profit Nippon Foundation, which will see bathroom facilities built by leading Japanese architects including Pritzer Prize winners Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban,

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Tree rises up through centre of House in Yoga by Keiji Ashizawa Design

May 27, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

A greenery-filled courtyard lies at the heart of this home that Keiji Ashizawa Design has created for a family of five in Tokyo’s Yoga neighbourhood. Located just outside of the bustling, shop-lined streets of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, House in Yoga is designed to let its inhabitants experience the outdoors in an urban context. The house,

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Tokyo has cells for living, working, eating, entertainment and sex says Martin van der Linden

April 23, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, video blogger Martin van der Linden uses some of his favourite architecture books to explain the order behind Tokyo’s apparently chaotic urban landscape. “When first-time visitors come to Tokyo, they are often overwhelmed by its chaotic urbanity,” he says. “Buildings jumbled together with no sense of coordination

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“Tokyo has turned its back on its rivers” says Martin van der Linden

April 20, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden reveals some of Tokyo’s “invisible” waterways, which flow beneath the city’s roads and pavements. “As many as 2,500 people cross each time the light turns green,” van der Linden says in the video, while standing at Tokyo’s busy Shibuya Crossing.

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Kengo Kuma’s Japan National Stadium is “definitely not iconic” says Martin van der Linden

April 19, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

National Stadium by Kengo Kuma one minute architecture video

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden visits Kengo Kuma’s new Olympic stadium in Tokyo in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. “Here behind me is the new Olympic Stadium designed by Kengo Kuma,” says van der Linden. “The project was rather controversial, as the international competition was initially won by Zaha Hadid.” Officially

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