- Area: 230 m²
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Manufacturers: Hansgrohe, Tap wareEndo
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Professionals: Takahashi Komuten, Teiyu
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Riverside Villa / Atelier Boronski
House in Umezu / koyori + DATT
Shimogamo Machiya Villa / Takuma Ohira
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Architects: Takuma Ohira
- Area: 62 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Daiwa, Fantini, cera
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Professionals: Yasui Corporation
Brasserie Restaurant / Kokaistudios
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Architects: Kokaistudios
- Area: 870 m²
- Year: 2016
Bake / Yusuke Seki
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Architects: Yusuke Seki
- Year: 2016
Kyoto Residence / EXH Design + Anoffice
New Kyoto Town House 2 / Alphaville Architects
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Architects: Alphaville Architects
- Area: 3000 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Takashi Manda Structural
The Corner House in Kitashirakawa / UME architects
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Architects: UME architects
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: S3 Associates Inc., TEN Planning
Japan's Abandoned Golf Courses Get Second Life As Solar Farms
With a goal to double the amount of its renewable energy power sources by 2030, Japan has begun to transform abandoned golf courses into massive solar energy plants. As Quartz reports, Kyocera, a company known for its floating solar plants, has started construction on a 23-megawatt solar plant on an old golf course in the Kyoto prefecture (scheduled to open in 2017). The company also plans to break ground on a similar, 92-megawatt plant in the Kagoshima prefecture next year. Pacifico Energy is also jumping on the trend; with the help of GE Energy Financial Services, the company is overseeing two solar plant golf course projects in the Okayama prefecture. The idea is spreading too; plans to transform gold courses into solar fields are underway in New York, Minnesota and other US states as well.
KOU-AN Glass Tea House / Tokujin Yoshioka
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Architects: Tokujin Yoshioka
- Year: 2015
HA-HA Apartment / ninkipen!
"Classic Japan" Episode 2: Sachio Otani's Kyoto International Conference Center
The second episode in "Classic Japan" features the 1966 Kyoto International Conference Center by Sachio Otani. The site of the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, Otani's waterfront conference center unfurls onto nearby Lake Takaragaike via a series of concrete pathways that offset the centre's Brutalist weight. Filmed and edited by Vincent Hecht, a French architect and film maker currently living in Tokyo, the series focuses on Japanese architecture from the 1950s to the 80s.
Before working on the conference center, Otani had previously worked in the office of Kenzo Tange, whose Yoyogi National Gymnasium was featured in the first episode of the "Classic Japan" series.
A Church in Kyoto / Shigenori Uoya Architects and Associates
House in Kitaoji / Torafu Architects
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Architects: Torafu Architects
- Area: 134 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: DAIKO, interoffice, Kyoto Kensetsu
Ritto House / ALTS Design Office
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Architects: ALTS Design Office
- Area: 71 m²
- Year: 2014