Designed by Jun Mitsui & Associates Inc. Architects, The Jewels of Aoyama is located in Tokyo, Japan. The corner building, surrounded by its larger neighbours, is set off as a centrepiece and creates a very strong identity for the complex as a whole and for the Minami Aoyama area as well. The different appearance of the two buildings helps to enhance their relationship; the main building’s limestone...
Located in Aomori, Japan, Nebuta-no-ie Warrase add a shot of colour was designed by molo design d&dt, Arch (Yasuo Nakata); Frank la Rivière Architects Inc (Frank la Rivière) . A curious characteristic of civic building Nebuta-no-ie Warrase in Aomori is that its complete form can only be viewed in its entirety from the adjacent waterfront. The streaming scarlet ribbons that sweep across the...
Sumikiri-House designed around relationships with the neighbouring community that located in Amagasaki-City, Japan, was designed by y+M design office Co.Ltd. The house is located in a residential area where there are old-style tenement houses in Amagasaki-city, Hyogo-prefecture, Japan. Around there the width of road is narrow (about 4 metres) and houses are densely situated with poor views. The client’s...
The House O, centred around the kitchen offers flexibility and functionality designed by RYUICHI SASAKI + KAZUYA NISHIMURA is located in Nasu-Shiobara, Japan. House O is a house for a couple expecting children, located in the countryside with an hour bullet train ride to the metropolitan. Its flat, 3,000 sq m premise surrounded by a forest on the south-east side, and a cultivated field on its west-north...
The Library of the Shikoku Gakuin University designed by Showa Sekkei,Inc is located in Zentsuji, Japan. The campus is surrounded by the mountain range of the region. Because it is the only university in the city, the Library of the Shikoku Gakuin University cooperates with the City Library, sharing books, publications, materials, interlibrary computer system terminals and other resources. This library...