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To commemorate the 350 years since the foundation of the Zuisho-Ji Temple, Kengo Kuma was asked to renovate the temple and the priests’ quarters within the temple. The new addition was planned in consideration of the peculiar arrangement of the Chinese temple architecture.
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Kengo Kuma completed his first building in Australia: a spiraling six-story structure at the heart of Sydney’s darling square district. The civic center is known as ‘The Darling Exchange’ and contains a library with spaces to support creative and technology startups; a ground floor market hall; a childcare center; and a rooftop bar with views over the neighboring park.
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The U House was designed by the famous Japanese architect Toyo Ito in 1976 for his older sister, who had just lost her husband to cancer. Built in the center of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997. The house is one of Ito’s most seminal projects.
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The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a perfectly contextualized fragment in the Japanese city.
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Ordinary backdrops is a series of photographs by Louise de Belles that capture the beauty of the ordinary as well as commonplaces of Japanese cities that embrace imperfection. Ordinary : adjective 1. With no special or distinctive features; normal. “he sets out to depict ordinary people” Ordinary Backdrops Photographs by Louis de Belle Work description by Louise de Belle Ordinary Backdrops is a photographic…
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Located in Mount Rokko, with spectacular views overlooking Kobe, the ‘House in rokko’ by Japanese Architect Yo Shimada explores the way Architecture can minimize physical impacts upon the environment while maintaining the views.
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Built in the corner of an old town, House D is a single family house designed by Japanese Architect Jun Igarashi which encourage relationships and continuity between internal and external spaces.
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The Laminated house by Architect Hiroaki Ohtani is made with pre-cast concrete strips, stacked unevenly to allow stairs, furniture, and floors to be inserted in the gaps.
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Built with a limited budget, Hat H is a house designed by Japanese Architects Jun Igarashi for a single family in Engaru, a residential district in Hokkaido. A very small entity Volume in the middle of the site of 5,460mm × 5,460mm is built to host the house.
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The House in Byoubugaura designed by Japanese Architects Takeshi Hosaka is a single-family dwelling in Yokohama in a small plot of just 60 m2. Curve Walls serve to give intimacy while allowing the entrance of natural light in the interiors.
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