Ishizuchi House
I have to say I quite like the openness and blockiness of Kazujuki Okamura’s Ishizuchi House — there are more photos here, where you ca....
4 Dec 1:39 am  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
‘Prototype’ documents the birth of designers’ ideas
The creative process is on display at the Prototype exhibition, which showcases the works of Japanese architects and designers.....
3 Dec 5:24 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Nestled House
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3 Dec 2:47 pm  from  Yo Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
eileen gray
eileen gray is superb.above and below is her e-1027 house.and there are also some images of her interior and furniture designs.ouno design h....
2 Dec 8:33 am  from  ii-ne-kore   [Profile]  [Recent] 
tokyo #5
breakfast: coffee & sweet potato confectionery from funawa lunch: supermarket bento = bad dessert: haagen-dazs “sweet potato pie....
1 Dec 10:08 pm  from  it will stop raining*   [Profile]  [Recent] 
kodomo no mori
Kodomo no mori (子供の森) is a small area in Northern Iwate that was built as a (free) play area for people to come and enjoy. They h....
1 Dec 3:00 pm  from  The View from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Egota305
Minkus Architects Tokyo have renovated an apartment in Tokyo, with the main feature being the use of curtains throughout the space, doublin....
30 Nov 8:39 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Traditional japanese house
It's only been quite recently that I have begun to appreciate the aesthetics of traditional Japanese houses. This one seemed a little lighte....
30 Nov 12:24 pm  from  Ojisan Jake   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Weird tower
German photographer Juergen Specht found this weird tower in the outskirts of Osaka. It looks small but it is more than 180 meters high! It ....
30 Nov 5:04 am  from  Kirainet   [Profile]  [Recent] 
[image: Italic]photos by yasuhiro ishimoto. japanese american
photos by yasuhiro ishimoto. japanese american post-war photographer.i first saw his work in a book i recently got, a book of essays by jap....
29 Nov 11:14 am  from  ii-ne-kore   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Marine Hall, a wedding chapel.
Marine Hall is one of 2 wedding chapels at the Meriken Park Oriental Hotel in Kobe.Rather than go for the "traditional" architecture of Japa....
27 Nov 1:17 pm  from  Ojisan Jake   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Soho by Masamichi Katayama
Excite Japan has a piece up (in Japanese) that covers a new office/apartment building called The Soho, designed by the king of Tokyo retail....
26 Nov 10:51 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Quickly Taken – A Visit to the Bunka Kaikan
. This is what happens on a quiet news week and there’s a blank page to fill – you test any residual reader loyalty by inserting pictur....
24 Nov 10:25 pm  from  Tokyo Teacher   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Studies in Organic
TABlog posts a nice photo report from the opening of Kengo Kuma’s “Studies in Organic” exhibition at Gallery MA. The show runs until ....
24 Nov 7:42 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Droog Exhibition Space
For next month’s Design Miami, Atelier Bow-Wow is designing the exhibition space — in the form of a house — for Dutch design brand Dr....
24 Nov 7:38 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
freeways and cement
what’s Tokyo? A river totally cemented in on both bottom and sides:     What’s even MORE tokyo?  A river where there’s huge amoun....
21 Nov 6:45 pm  from  Hello Damage   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Stand Alone
. There are appreciable sensations when, late at night, you’re all alone, standing right before a broad river’s edge whose body is as d....
20 Nov 3:18 pm  from  Tokyo Teacher   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Christo and Jeanne-Claude – "The Umbrellas"
Jeanne-Claude, who in collaboration with her husband Christo created numerous art installations across the globe, has passed away today, th....
20 Nov 7:28 am  from  dddreamland   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Earthquake-proof houses
Since I have lived in Japan one of the main concerns in my life are earthquakes. I have always wondered if buildings and houses are really p....
19 Nov 5:39 pm  from  Kirainet   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Conceptual Cafe
This could have been a very interesting cafe project, if completed. In 2008 Japanese architect Hiroki Tanabe developed a small café house....
19 Nov 1:20 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
I Remember You
Science, metaphysicism, and architecture meet in Atelier Norisada Maeda’s “I Remember You” home. More at Spoon & Tamago. ....
19 Nov 1:10 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
House H, Tokyo by Sou Fujimoto Architects
The Japanese architects continue to impress me, you might have seen the Fukuyama Dentist Clinic before, and maybe the Sosushi Sushi Bar in T....
19 Nov 1:50 am  from  Yonasu   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sou Fujimoto: House H
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18 Nov 7:53 pm  from  Yo Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
House H
Even more than today’s HG House — yes, I know it’s confusing — I really dig Sou Fujimoto’s House H, especially the interior — i....
17 Nov 9:31 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
HG House
Is it just me or does pretty much every architectural project that appears on Designboom and Dezeen — especially homes — come from Japa....
17 Nov 9:19 pm  from  Jeans Now   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Single tree beautifies modern house
A single tree standing in the entrance to a modern Tokyo house provides a marvelous contrast between the traditional and the new. The beaut....
15 Nov 9:02 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Palm trees in Kurashiki traditional courtyard house
During the trip to Inujima, we spent a night in Kurashiki, an old warehouse town near Okayama that survived both the war and modernization.....
14 Nov 9:04 am  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Apartment Ruins – Minowa, Tokyo
In this set of pictures, all were taken in the last days of August this year except the one above. The monochrome shot here was nailed some....
14 Nov 3:05 am  from  Tokyo Teacher   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Choseikaku Villa
Choseikaku Villa was built in 1927. This nearly 400 sq. m. villa displays many of the features of architecture of this period, with elements....
12 Nov 1:44 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 
Klein Dytham architecture
What began as a post on Vitamin Water quickly transformed into an entry focused on the Western firm Klein Dythan architecture (KDa). The le....
16 Jul 9:08 am  from  dddreamland   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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