Tokyo

Climbing wall and swing promote play at Hibinosekkei’s Tokyo childcare centre

July 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese architecture studio Hibinosekkei incorporated structures intended to encourage play into the interior design of this Tokyo support centre for children with developmental difficulties. The studio, which specialises in healthcare-related architecture, designed the facility for a site in Hamura, on the western edge of the Tokyo metropolitan region. The building’s design responds to the needs

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Kenzo Tange’s lost house is showpiece of Japan in Architecture exhibition at Mori Art Museum

June 18, 2018 India Block 0

A scale model of architect Kenzo Tange’s now-demolished house and a full-size replica of a 16th century tea house feature in a blockbuster exhibition of Japanese architecture at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of its Transformation contains 400 exhibits, showcasing 100 different projects by architects including Yoshio Taniguchi, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and Kazuyo Sejima.

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Trunk Hotel is “a completely new concept for Tokyo” says creative director

June 7, 2018 Ben Hobson 0

Hiroe Tanaka, creative director of the Trunk Hotel in Tokyo, explains how the building was designed to become a hub of activity, in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the AHEAD Asia hospitality awards. Trunk Hotel is a small boutique hotel located in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. It won the New Concept of the Year prize at the AHEAD Asia

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Akihisa Hirata stacks concrete boxes to create “futuristic and savage” Tree-ness House

May 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studio Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office has completed a mixed-use building in Tokyo featuring a jumbled composition of concrete rooms that create spaces for small balconies and gardens. The firm headed by architect Akihisa Hirata designed the building in Tokyo’s Toshima district to provide accommodation for a multi-generational family, alongside gallery spaces and offices. The design of

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Schemata Architects plays with materials and movable furniture at Tokyo record label offices

May 9, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pastel-coloured walls, industrial finishes and sliding furniture create a playful atmosphere inside this office for a Tokyo-based record label by Schemata Architects. The studio headed by architect Jo Nagasaka was asked by record company Toy’s Factory to design an office occupying an entire floor of a building overlooking a five-way road junction in the Shibuya

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World’s tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo

February 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world’s tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country’s highest. Sumitomo Forestry, the lumber arm of one of Japan’s largest corporations, is proposing the 70-storey hybrid timber skyscraper to mark the company’s 350th anniversary in 2041. Named W350, the ambitious

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World’s tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo

February 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world’s tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country’s highest. Sumitomo Forestry, the lumber arm of one of Japan’s largest corporations, is proposing the 70-storey hybrid timber skyscraper to mark the company’s 350th anniversary in 2041. Named W350, the ambitious

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Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo’s infrastructure

January 26, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Australian photographer Tom Blachford waited until night to capture these neon-tinted photographs of Tokyo’s metabolist buildings, which he says could have been built in a “distant future”. For his latest series, Blachford was influenced by the futuristic appearance of the country’s post-war modernist architectural movement, metabolism – pioneered by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The Pritzker

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Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo’s infrastructure

January 26, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Australian photographer Tom Blachford waited until night to capture these neon-tinted photographs of Tokyo’s metabolist buildings, which he says could have been built in a “distant future”. For his latest series, Blachford was influenced by the futuristic appearance of the country’s post-war modernist architectural movement, metabolism – pioneered by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The Pritzker

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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects

January 23, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Jo Nagasaka’s architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. Schemata Architects changed everything inside the eight-storey Shibuya hotel, except the capsules themselves. The result is an interior that combines contemporary, pared-back finishes with retro details. The project was commissioned by Nine Hours, a hotel

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