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Mori x Hako / UID Architects

Nov 4 -
Fabian Cifuentes -
Featured Healthcare Architecture Selected Works

Architects: UID Architects
Location: Fukuyama-city, Hiroshima, Japan
Design Team: Keisuke Maeda
Year: 2009
Area: 403.1 sqm
Client: Monami Co.Ltd.
Cost: € 675,000
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda, Courtesy of UID Architect

Mascara House / mA-style architects

Architects: mA-style architects
Location: Shizuoka, Hamamatu-City, Japan
Architect In Charge: Atsushi Kawamoto, Mayumi Kawamoto
Site Area: 232.02 sqm
Building Area: 82.46 sqm
Area: 111.44 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Kai Nakamura

House in Sakado / LEVEL Architects

Architects: LEVEL Architects
Location: Saitama, Japan
Site Area: 231.95 sqm
Total Floor Area: 214.67 sqm
Area: 137.01 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of LEVEL Architects

Okusawa House / Hiroyuki Ito + O.F.D.A.

Architects: Hiroyuki Ito + O.F.D.A.
Location: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Site Area: 165.13 sqm
Building Area: 38.40 sqm
Area: 82.48 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jin Hosoya

Aesop Ginza / Schemata Architects

Architects: Schemata Architects
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architect In Charge: Jo Nagasaka
Construction: Zest
Area: 38.04 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Alessio Guarino, Takumi Ota

Atelier-Bisque Doll / UID Architects

Nov 1 -
Fabian Cifuentes -
Featured Houses Mixed Use Selected Works

Architects: UID Architects
Location: Minoh, Osaka, Japan
Design Team: Keisuke Maeda
Year: 2009
Area: 151.25 sqm
Site Area: 328.16 sqm
Total Floor Area: 151.25 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

A Circle in a Square / Binocle

Oct 31 -
Jonathan Alarcon -
Hotels and Restaurants Museums and Libraries Selected Works

Architects: Binocle
Location: Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Architectural Design: Massimo Bartolini and Lorenzo Bini
Collaborators: Enrico Forestieri
Area: 470 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Osamu Nakamura

Takanawa House / Hiroyuki Ito + O.F.D.A.

Architects: Hiroyuki Ito + O.F.D.A.
Location: Minato-ku,Tokyo,Japan
Site Area: 161.50 sqm
Building Area: 95.15
Area: 229.49 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Daici Ano

Residence in Karuizawa / K+S Architects

Architects: K+S Architects
Location: Karuizawa, Japan
Architects in charge: Aya Sato, Nobuya Kashima
Structure Engineer: Takumi Shinpo / SHI
Construction Builder: Niitsu-Gumi
Site Area: 841 sqm
Total Floor Area: 209.47 sqm
Area: 174.15 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

Finalists announced for Japan’s New National Stadium

Oct 30 -
Karissa Rosenfield -
Architecture News Competitions Editor's Choice Sports Architecture

Tadao Ando and the Japan Sport Council (JSC) have announced the eleven finalists who will compete in the final round of the international competition for the New National Stadium Japan. With the reconstruction, the National Stadium hopes to attract world-class events with the world’s largest spectator capacity and the world’s finest hospitality. The new stadium is already committed to hosting the 2019 Rugby World Cup and is slated for competition in 2018.

Tadao Ando describes: “Our wish is to see a stadium designed by someone who shares this earth, with wisdom and technology that looks to the future of out planet.”

The finalists after the break…

Gallery of Minerals and Atelier / THREE.BALL.CASCADE.

Architects: THREE.BALL.CASCADE.
Location: Midori, Yokohama, Japan
Design Team: Keiichi Tama, Syun Sano
Constructor: Kato Chu Komuten
Structure Engineer: Kozo Oshima
Area: 109.52 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of THREE.BALL.CASCADE. Architecture Design Office

Machi-House / UID Architects

Architects: UID Architects
Location: Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan
Design Team: Keisuke Maeda
Year: 2011
Area: 75.56 sqm
Site Area: 95.41 sqm
Total Floor Area: 138.23 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

Roji / Nadamoto Yukiko Architects

Oct 26 -
Javier Gaete -
Hotels and Restaurants Houses Mixed Use Selected Works

Architects: Nadamoto Yukiko Architects
Location: Yoichi, Japan
Architect In Charge: Yukiko Nadamoto
Photographs: Seiya Miyamoto

Machi-Building / UID Architects

Architects: UID Architects
Location: Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan
Design Team: Keisuke Maeda
Year: 2011
Area: 104.16 sqm
Site Area: 130.24 sqm
Total Floor Area: 262.85 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

AD Classics: Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium / Kenzo Tange

Oct 25 -
Brian Pagnotta -
AD Architecture Classics Sports Architecture

Photo by naoyafujii – http://www.flickr.com/photos/naoyafujii/

At about the same time as Kenzo Tange’s two huge Olympic arenas for the Olympic Games in the summer of 1964 in Tokyo, there was built in the southern part of Japan a much more modest sports arena of Takamatsu in Kagawa Prefecture between 1962 and 1964. More after the break.

Tsukiage-An / Doyle Collection

© Satoru Umetsu © Nacasa & Partners — Satoru Umetsu © Nacasa & Partners

Architects: Doyle Collection
Location: Sennichi-cho, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, Japan
Year: 2012
Area: 81.54 sqm
Construction: Kounan Kougyou Inc.
Client: Nankai Shokuhin co,.ltd.
Photographs: Satoru Umetsu © Nacasa & Partners

Air Flow House / UID Architects

Architects: UID Architects
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Design Team: Keisuke Maeda
Year: 2008
Area: 279.18 sqm
Structural Engineers: Hidekazu Ikeda
Site Area: 498.15 sqm
Total Floor Area: 293.41 sqm
Photographs: Hiroshi Ueda

Architects: Kidosaki Architects Studio
Location: Asamayama Tsukudeiwanami, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Architect In Charge: Hirotaka Kidosaki
Design Team: Coco Ashihara
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: 45g Photography © Junji Kojima