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JINS Holdings Tokyo Head Office / Fumiko Takahama Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This project is a relocation of the Tokyo headquarters of JINS HOLDINGS, an eyewear brand with more than 700 shops in Japan and abroad. The new building is a nine-story building scheduled for demolition in three years' time. It was rented entirely and fully renovated based on two concepts: "Create space by demolishing" and " Museum x Office." The "Create space by demolishing" means creating spaces with a subtractive design, stripping off finishes, and opening up holes in the slab while minimizing the amount of new construction as much as possible, considering decarbonization. The rough space that emerges from this process provides workers with a proactive environment where they can improve their work area by devising new ways of working, rather than a passive environment in which everything is set for them. The Museum x Office is intended to reconfigure the space generated by literally demolishing parts of the building as a place where the ideas and creativity of the people can be stimulated, like an art museum.

HAKUHODO Gravity Office / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What is an office? After the COVID-19 craze, online meetings and remote working have become the norm. Thanks to the improved communications environment, we can work from anywhere. The boundary between home and office is blurring, and the meaning and function of an office are becoming increasingly difficult to define.

Kimoto House / Niko Design Studio

Hana Abdel — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

"It would be great to have a sunroom where we could grow plants and live while looking at them." These were Mr.and Mrs. Kimoto's first words at the beginning of the design process. So we created an inner terrace for the plants and at the same time, a space that would act as a buffer zone to avoid the view from the street.

Building of Music / Kensuke Aisaka

Hana Abdel — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This commercial complex for a music company with a long history includes music classrooms, instrument sales, and storage spaces, and the company’s main offices. Located in the Kanda-Ochanomizu area of Tokyo, which is known for its many music stores, the lot is small and irregularly shaped. The client requested a building that efficiently combined a variety of functions, including rooms for lessons in piano, violin, and other instruments; a hall for recitals; a professional recording equipment shop; storage for wholesale instrument sales; and offices to manage these various aspects of the businesses.

TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower / Mitsubishi Jisho Design

Hana Abdel — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Located directly north of Tokyo Station, one of Japan’s largest railway hubs, the Tokyo Torch redevelopment district is envisioned as a light of hope illuminating Japan. The district sits within a National Strategic Special Zone, intended to strengthen Japan’s international economic competitiveness, and will be a new center of finance and business. It will include Torch Tower, projected to be Japan’s tallest building at 390 meters when completed in FY2027; Tokiwabashi Tower; an Electrical Substation Building; a Sewerage & Waterworks Bureau Building; Tokyo Torch Park; and Tokiwabashi Park. Four existing dilapidated buildings are being demolished and replaced in stages in conjunction with the renewal of urban infrastructure including electrical and water facilities. Tokiwabashi Tower, a 38-story, 212-meter-high mixed-use building, is the first element of the project to be completed.

Blue Bottle Coffee Kanda Manseibashi Cafe / Schemata Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000

This tiny cafe at Kanda Manseibashi is the eleventh store Blue Bottle Coffee opened in Japan. It is their smallest store with a floor area of 25m2 and the first takeout-only cafe without seating inside.

Antiquarian Book Shop in Jimbocho / n o t architects studio

Andreas Luco — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0000

This is an antiquarian bookstore located on the first floor of a building facing Yasukuni Street in Jimbocho. The client, who originally ran a secondhand Western bookstore in this building, decided to reopen as a select store of secondhand books with other four co-owners. Each owner deals in various kinds of antiquarian books, from Western books to Japanese books, ukiyoe, hanging scrolls(kakeziku), and scrolls(makimono), so the client wanted a space where these antiquarian books can be freely arranged.

Toggle Hotel / Klein Dytham architecture

Paula Pintos — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Toggle Hotel is truly an urban hotel, located in the heart of Tokyo. The triangular site is bound by the Metropolitan Expressway flying over an extension of the historic Imperial moat on one side, while the Chuo Line, the main railway line that crosses Tokyo, runs past on the opposite side.

Sukiyaki Jyuniten Restaurant / Fumihiko Sano Studio

Hana Abdel — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Considered the gateway to Tokyo, the project is located in a commercial complex near Tokyo Station. Sukiyaki Jyuniten is a restaurant specializing in sukiyaki, a traditional Japanese dish that is prepared and served in a Japanese hot pot. The name “jyuniten” refers to the Buddhist term “12 heavens” and is a reference to the 12 levels of A5 grade Japanese style beef.

and wander MARUNOUCHI / Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:00:00 +0000

and wander's product lineup is characterized by unisex design and a large variety of colors. You can fully understand qualities of the products only by holding each product in your hand one by one. We thought that the joy of discovering each item one by one by holding it in your hands is the way to enjoy shopping at and wander, and also that changes in each of the items bring about fresh changes from season to season.

Kanda Coffee En / Yasuhisa Makino Architect & Associates

Hana Abdel — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This coffee shop has been operating under the railway elevated bridge at kanda station, in tokyo, since 1957. the two-story shop was dismantled due to seismic reinforcement work, and the new establishment was required to be nested, not having contact with the bridge frame.

WARP STUDIO / I IN

Hana Abdel — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 19:00:00 +0000

A new type of office space by Mitsui Fudosan Company Limited used by company members for various independent projects. Different office style was required for the design of the new business of the well known Japanese company. The space had to differ from the usual office space, where usual atmosphere would be for the people to work at their desk. In the context of several projects and group of people working together at the same time, the aim was to make people from different teams feel like sharing a single space.

Escalier Gobancho / ETHNOS

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 04 May 2019 21:00:00 +0000

This is a project of a building for rental office spaces and commercial spaces, facing the moat of the Imperial Palace and located close to Ichigaya station.