Since 1928
In a depopulated village in the moutain region of Kochi in Japan, Kikuma Watanabe designed a movable shrine made of steel pipes wood and polycarbonate panels.
Located in a dense residential district in Tokyo, the house designed by Chop+Archi is distinguished by its triangular shape and includes three voids that serve as intermediary spaces.
The Newtown house in Kyoto designed by Kohei Yukawa and Hiroto Kawaguchi, features a central open and continuous space that has floors and steps at various levels.
By seeing all the rooms at once through dramatic cuts on floors and walls, Kochi’s single family house in Tokyo is a ‘cubist’ intervention on architecture, to increase the perception of space.
The Ono-Sake Warehouse designed by Eureka studio and G architects in Tsukuba, Japan, is a wide shop dedicated to the distribution of sake that by night turns into a lantern.
