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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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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 centre of Tokyo, it was demolished in 1997.
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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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Japanese Architect Sou Fujimoto has partnered with Daito Trust Construction to “redefine the rental house” for the House Vision 2016 exhibition held in Tokyo.
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The National Museum of Western Art designed by Le Corbusier was the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central Tokyo. The museum is also known by the English acronym NMWA (National Museum of Western Art).
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In Tokyo, Architect Kengo Kuma was chosen to design Pigment, an art-supply shop like no other. With more than 4,200 pigments as well as 600 paintbrushes and 50 types of rare glue, this is an artist’s dream come true. None artist also come to adminre the interior by Kengo Kuma & Associates which recently won the National Stadium for the…
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Japanese practice Akihisa Hirata Architecture office looked to the larger scale of the neighborhood to design the concept for a Collective Housing in Tokyo titled’ kotoriku’: the irregular roads define the different areas of activity with varying qualities of space, light, and material.
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© Junya Ishigami + associates The ‘house for a young couple’ in Tokyo, designed by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami contains a small garden within its cuboid envelope blurring boundaries between interior and exterior.
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The Ghost House designed by Japanese studio Datar Architecture has been billed as “the most minimalist house in Japan”. We could also easily agree is one of the most minimalist house in the world.
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© Xia Zhi The St. Mary’s Cathedral was built in 1964 and designed by Kenzo Tange to replace the old wooden cathedral, in gothic style, burnt during wartime. Tange’s project is both Modernist and Metabolist, abstract and symbolic, bright (polished exterior) and dark (rough interior).
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The Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by the Japanese Architect Kisho Kurokawa is a mixed-use residential and office tower located in the center of Tokyo, Japan. Completed in 1972, the building is a rare remaining example of Japanese Metabolism, an architectural movement emblematic of Japan’s postwar cultural resurgence. It was the world’s first example of capsule architecture built for permanent and practical use.
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ABE House designed by Japanese Architects Urban Architecture Office is a single family dwelling in Tama-shi, a residential district of Tokyo. Imagined as an outdoor garden, the interior circulation of this houses creates a journey as inhabitants pass between rooms. The exterior facade is made with three volumes of different heights that are clustered in a variety of facets.
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