Posts Tagged ‘Tokyo’

Flat Flat Store in Harajuku by SAKO Architects

January 28th, 2009
Flat Flat Store in Harajuku by SAKO Architects

SAKO Architects provided the interior design for this store located at the center of Harajuku, a part of Tokyo, where the visitors are able to experience Hangame, an online games portal for mobile phones, developed by NHN Japan Corporation.

From the architects:
The concept of the store is ‘the future park’ and we attempted to combine virtual [...]

Boolean Interior Design by Torafu architects

January 9th, 2009
Boolean Interior Design by Torafu architects

This Boolean Interior is the work of Tokyo-based Torafu Architects, an interior installation for the cafe space located at the entrance of the Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building in the University of Tokyo. The design using punctured wooden surfaces to enclose the space and frame the outside world.

Koichi Suzono and Shinya Kamuro of Torafu [...]

Annex of the Old Family House

August 12th, 2008
Annex of the Old Family House

Location : Akiruno, Tokyo
Architect : Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects
Structure Engineer : Oga Structure Design Office
Equipment Engineer : Akeno Equipment Design Office
Construction : Honma Construction Company
Photo by : Koichi Torimura
Situated in the rural village. This architecture is an annex of the old family house constructed 200 years ago. Located carefully between the existing buildings and [...]

Moss House by Nendo / Oki Sato

August 2nd, 2008
Moss House by Nendo / Oki Sato

Moss House | Private House by Japanese Architect ” Nendo / Oki Sato “. This project involved renovating an old wooden house on the Shibuya River in Tokyo’s Ebisu neighbourhood into a live-work space. The house had accumulated some strange and wonderful features -an inner courtyard, an oddly long hallway, a tiny room- from a [...]

Satoshi Okada Architects | House in Aobadai

July 31st, 2008
Satoshi Okada Architects | House in Aobadai

Location : Aobadai, Tokyo, Japan
Architect : Satoshi Okada
Type : residence
Size : 238.46 sqm.
Structure : RC
Completion : 2004
Project team : Daikichi Honma
Structural designer : Kenta Masaki
General contractor : Fukazawa Construction Co.
Photo credit: Satoshi Okada architects
The house is located in the Daikanyama Hill, next to Shibuya district, one of the most fashionable areas in Tokyo, today. On [...]

Satoshi Okada Architects | House in Ogikubo

July 31st, 2008
Satoshi Okada Architects | House in Ogikubo

Location : Ogikubo, Tokyo, Japan
Architect : Satoshi Okada
Type : 2 family residence
Size : 198.47 sqm.
Structure : wooden construction
Project team : Isao Kato, hunichi Kasajima, Katrin Oechslin
Structural designer : Hirokazu Toki
General contractor : Fukazawa Construction Co.
Completion : 2005
Photo credit : Koichi Torimura (Nacasa & Partners)
The house is located in Ogikubo, one of the most highly congested [...]