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Riverside Villa / Atelier Boronski

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Kyoto, Japan
  • Architects: atelier Boronski: Atelier Boronski
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  230
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Hansgrohe, Tap wareEndo
  • Professionals: Takahashi Komuten, Teiyu

House in Umezu / koyori + DATT

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  • Architects: DATT, Koyori
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  92
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Lixil Corporation, Sanwa

Shimogamo Machiya Villa / Takuma Ohira

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  • Architects: Takuma Ohira
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  62
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Daiwa, Fantini, cera
  • Professionals: Yasui Corporation

Brasserie Restaurant / Kokaistudios

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Kyoto, Japan
  • Architects: Kokaistudios
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  870
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016

Hermès Gion-mise / ODS

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Kyoto, Japan
  • Architects: ODS: Koichiro Oniki
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  212
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  MIYAZAKI, TONY

Bake / Yusuke Seki

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  • Architects: Yusuke Seki
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016

Kyoto Residence / EXH Design + Anoffice

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Kyoto, Japan, Japan
  • Architects: Anoffice, EXH Design
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  120
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016

Xchange Apartments / TANK

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  • Architects: TANK
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  47
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Nakamura Toso Kogyojo, TATESIN

New Kyoto Town House 2 / Alphaville Architects

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Kyoto, Japan

The Corner House in Kitashirakawa / UME architects

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Kyoto, Japan

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 YorkMinnesota and other US states as well.

YOC Restaurant / GENETO

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  • Architects: GENETO
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  429
  • Professionals: AMUZA, pivoto

KOU-AN Glass Tea House / Tokujin Yoshioka

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HA-HA Apartment / ninkipen!

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  • Architects: ninkipen!
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  65
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015

"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

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Kyoto, Japan

House in Kitaoji / Torafu Architects

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Kyoto, Japan

Ritto House / ALTS Design Office

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Kyoto, Japan
  • Architects: ALTS Design Office
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  71
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014