Architect: GENETO - Koji Yamanaka, Yuji Yamanaka, Asako Yamashita
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Structure: Wooded structure
Floor Area: 47.79 sqm
Total Floor Area: 94.6 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of GENETO
Japan
Architects: Yoritaka Hayashi Architects
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Collaborators: Akira Suzuki / ASA (Structural Engineer) , Takasou Takahashi / SESSE-Design (Façade Consultant)
Site Area: 40.01 sqm
Building Area: 32.17 sqm
Total Floor Area: 99.80 sqm
Project Year: December of 2010
Structure: Steel frame
Photographs: Takumi Ota
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: 1196-1 Yusuhara, Yusihar-Cho, Takaoka-gun, Koch, Japan
Client: Tomio Yano, Town Mayor of Yusuhara
Site: 779.08
Built area: 552.28
Total area: 1,132.00
Photographs: Takumi Ota Photography

Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Architect: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Location: Tochigi, Japan
Structural System: Steel frame
Building Area: 725.27
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Andrew Burns Architect recently won the competition for a gallery-atelier in rural Japan – Australia House. The competition was judged by Tadao Ando and open internationally. Their design is scheduled to be completed in July 2012 and will be a key part of the Echigo Tsumari Art Trienale 2012. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Architect: Satoru Hirota Architects – Satoru Hirota
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Client: Private
Program: Single family house
Structural Design: nieda+hisaeda architects / Taizen Nieda+Taizo Komatsu
Contractor: Eiger Co. Ltd, / Noriaki Fujii+Masakazu Sasaki+Koji Misaki
Site Area: 294.90 sqm
Built-up Area: 108.21 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Satoru Hirota Architects
Architects: FORM | Kouichi Kimura
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Client: Private
Construction Year: 2011
Site Area: 355,72 sqm
Constructed Area: 213,20 sqm
Photographs: Takumi Ota
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: 5180 Azayumachi, Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi, Japan
Client: City of Shimonoseki
Total floor area: 1,242.85 sqm
Structural engineering: Sato Jun Structural Engineers
Utilities, equipment: P.T.Morimura & Associates, LTD.
Construction: Kosei Kensetsu Co., Ltd.
Design period: 2006.12-2007.05
Construction period: 2008.04-2009.11
Photographs: Mitsumasa Fujitsuka

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Architects: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Program: Residence
Structural System: Reinforced concrete, steel frame
Site Area: 177.72 sqm
Building Area: 88.75 sqm
Total floor Space: 154.60 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
Architect: MuFF – Kosuke Kajikawa
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Client: Yellow Peach
Project Area: 30.400 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of MuFF
Architect: Alphaville Architects – Kentaro Takeguchi + Asako Yamamoto
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Project Team: Tomohisa Koike(Associate Architect), Kazuo Takeguchi(Structural Engineer)
General contractor: Craftman Ship Kawana
Project Area: 78.68 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Alphaville Architects
Architect: Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates
Location: Matsusaka, Mie, Japan
Contractor: Sanyo Construction Corporation
Site Area: 667.84 sqm
Architectural Area: 189.15 sqm
Total Floor Area: 293.19 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: 1508-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Title of the Project: Tamagawa Takashimaya S・C Marronier Court
Client: Toshin Development. Co., Ltd
Site Area: 2,424.40 sqm
Completion: 2009
Photographs: Daici Ano
Architect: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Location: Chiba, Japan
Date of completion: 2008
Parcel area: 826.47sqm
Constructed area: 102.71 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Architects: YO YAMAGATA ARCHITECTS
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Project Area: 144.63 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Forward stroke Inc

Courtesy of 24° Studio
Crater Lake, an installation project by 24° Studio, was exhibited at the Kobe Biennale from October – November 2011. The project was also one of the winners for Shitsurai Art International Competition organized by the city of Kobe. This multi-use environmental installation serves as a meeting place where every area can be used as seating for visitors to contemplate the surroundings, thus invoking a social interaction within and around. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Architects: Yo Yamagata Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Project Area: 61.46 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Forward stroke Inc


































































































































