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Architects: KAMITOPEN, KINO Architects
- Area: 170 m²
- Year: 2012
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Pony Pediatric Dental Clinic / KINO Architects + KAMITOPEN
AD Classics: Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center / Kenzo Tange
“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.” - Kenzo Tange
In honor of what would have been Kenzo Tange’s 100th birthday, AD Classics presents one of the Japanese master’s most iconic projects - the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center. Built in 1967, the building was the first spatial realization of Tange’s Metabolist ideas of organically-inspired structural growth, developed in the late 1950s. The Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Center is far more significant than its relatively small size would suggest, encapsulating the concepts of the new Metabolistic order in architecture and urban planning that prevailed in post-World War II Japan.
More about this icon of Metabolism after the break….
H-Orange / Takuro Yamamoto Architects
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Architects: Takuro Yamamoto Architects
- Area: 115 m²
- Year: 2006
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Professionals: Masuda Structural Engineering Office
Haunted play house / Torafu Architects
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Architects: Torafu Architects
- Area: 173 m²
- Year: 2013
Video: Office Building in Shibaura / Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Captured by JA+U, this short film takes you on a tour through a 2011, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates-designed office space in Shibaura, Tokyo. Open and transparent, the five double-height, split-level floors are designed to visually connect movement throughout the space, from the ground level public cafe to the generous outdoor terrace on the fifth floor.
House In Mishuku Ⅱ / Nobuo Araki
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Architects: Nobuo Araki
- Area: 7142 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: G.DeSIGN, On&Off, Watanabetomi Corporation
Cloudscapes at MOT / Tetsuo Kondo Architects + TRANSSOLAR / Matthias Schuler
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Architects: TRANSSOLAR / Matthias Schuler, Tetsuo Kondo Architects
- Year: 2012
Birdhouse / Takato Tamagami
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Architects: Takato Tamagami
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2013
Arrow / APOLLO Architects & Associates
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Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
- Area: 84 m²
- Year: 2013
Mokumoku Kindergarten / 16A Inc.
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Architects: 16A Inc.
- Area: 1665 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Ripple Design
Lattice / APOLLO Architects & Associates
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Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
- Area: 101 m²
- Year: 2013
Aluminium Flower Garden / Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
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Architects: Moriyuki Ochiai Architects
- Year: 2013
Nousfit Warehouse / Hideo Horikawa Architect & Associates
Roji House / airscape architects studio
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Architects: Airscape Architects Studio
- Area: 132 m²
- Year: 2008
Hachioji Tree House / Airscape Architects Studio
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Architects: Airscape Architects Studio, torinosu
- Area: 255 m²
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: Frameworks, Komorebi Design
Park House / another APARTMENT
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Architects: Another Apartment
- Area: 27 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Nieda+Hisaeda Architects, Show-Yo
'MonsterScape' Exhibit / Hannat Architects
'MonsterScape', an exhibition display design for Monster Exhibition 2013 organized by Recover & Rebuild Japanese art & design, was a concept created by Hannat Architects to exhibit monsters as a metaphor of disaster and to prevent people’s consciousness of disaster from diminishing. On display this past February, the organizer of the event wanted this exhibition to be something not to tell the misery of disaster but to recall “important things" that tend to be forgotten in everyday life, and visitors to enjoy art and design. More images and architects' description after the break.