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Commercial Space in Minato / ROOVICE

Hana Abdel — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Transformation of a 1960s Wooden Apartment Building in Tokyo's Minato Ward into a Commercial Rental Property. In the heart of Tokyo, Minato Ward, a traditional wooden apartment building, originally comprising six separate units, has been reimagined into a single cohesive commercial space. This architectural transformation involved a complete internal renovation, where all interior walls were demolished to create an open and unified living environment.

KOKUYO DIG / DDAA + KOKUYO

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Learning reshapes how we see the world by revealing what we did not know and sharpening our perspective. It is a cycle where knowledge sparks new questions, curiosity drives exploration, and inquiry fuels further learning. This process enriches life, and through the accumulated efforts of past generations, our world has gradually been formed.

Earth Centric Design Lab / Takeshi Hosaka Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This is the interior renovation for the new office of the Earth Centric Design Lab (ECD), a newly established subsidiary of TBWA HAKUHODO. The company regards the Earth as an important stakeholder and aims to shift the focus of all its designs from "human-centered" to "Earth-centered." Based on this concept, we carried out a super Earth-friendly interior renovation project that provides space and time for thinking about the Earth.

Logging Hill Installation / TAILAND

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

This pavilion is designed by Taichi Kuma for Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH 2024. The main structure is made out of 3 timber rings. They are varied in size such as 2m, 5m, and 10m. Each Ring is touching the ground and the plywood surface is created in between each ring.

AKASAKA BOUNDS Apartment / Studio KOM

Hana Abdel — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Newlywed life is a process of accepting a person who has walked a different life path into your own internal world. The encounter with different values is both refreshing and fleetingly lonely, much like moments of poignant sadness amidst a wonderful adventure. Architecture sometimes captures this fleeting poignancy of a once-in-a-lifetime encounter.

Tokyo Node Café and Lab / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000

TOKYO NODE cafe is a cafe with an attached lab located on the 8th floor of Toranomon Hills Station Tower, a new landmark directly connected to Toranomon Hills Station. This floor serves as the entrance to the “TOKYO NODE” complex that occupies the 8th floor and from the 45th through 49th floors of the building. In this context, the cafe was designed to be a cozy place, like a hideaway in a corner of the skyscraper tower.

Ginsen Nishi Shimbashi Building / Nikken Sekkei

Hana Abdel — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ginsen Nishi Shimbashi Building, an Office Building with Sweeping Wood-clad Eaves - This project involves a relatively compact tenant building situated in the heart of Tokyo. Facing an intersection, the site is located directly above a subway station at the end of a series of large-scale developments stretching from Otemachi to Hibiya Street. It offers a panoramic view of the high rises standing along the inner moat beyond Hibiya Park.

Shirokanedai House Renovation / ROOVICE

Hana Abdel — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The Shirokanedai House project is a meticulous renovation of a 50-year-old two-storey wooden residence situated in the vibrant Minato ward of Tokyo. The owner, a seasoned real estate professional, had long rented out the empty lot. Upon the departure of the last tenants, it came back with a property built on it. Considering the prohibitive costs of demolition in Japan coupled with the property's good condition, the owner decided to have Roovice rejuvenate and modernize the house for continued rental use.

AUBE Toranomon Residential Building / ETHNOS

Hana Abdel — Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The AUBE Toranomon is situated in an area in downtown Tokyo, where urban renewal is ongoing, and many high rises are being built. However, in the close vicinity of the site are found many lower buildings. The architect designs to allow various types of lifestyles in this rental residential building to create a harmonious social connection between the residents and the city.

Suzukake Azabudai Hills Store / CASE-REAL

Hana Abdel — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The plan for the Azabudai Hills branch of “Suzukake,” a wagashi (Japanese sweets) store with its headquarters based in Fukuoka. Leveraging the distinctive plot shape with entrances on both sides of the store, the goal was to create a space where the atmosphere harmonizes with Japanese sweets.

(0,0,0) studio genten Office / KOKUYO

Hana Abdel — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0000

KOKUYO has opened a digital fabrication studio in its office THE CAMPUS to launch a new business that utilizes digital fabrication technology. During diversifying work styles, KOKUYO aspires to build a new base and introduce technology to support the next era of manufacturing and space design.

THE CAMPUS / KOKUYO

Hana Abdel — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Redefinition of Central Office in the City - A renovation project that has transformed a forty-year-old private company building into an experimental site for the future where people can work and live creatively. The main concept is "WORK & LIFE PRECINCT ". The project opens up corporate activities to the city and explores new value in an environment where diverse people are involved.We design "a future prototype of offices in the city," offering a variable public space open to the neighborhood, as well as the experience of empathic resonance necessary in the new era of dispersed working.

OVERCOAT Tokyo Store / Atelier Write

Hana Abdel — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This is the project for the Japan base of OVERCOAT, a fashion brand from New York. The studio was required to connect the base in New York with the base in Japan that supports the brand’s products, and also to have the first directly managed store there.

The Okura Tokyo / Taniguchi and Associates + TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Hana Abdel — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Okura Legacy─Inheritance of creative endeavors - Hotel Okura Tokyo opened in 1962 to provide a world-class hotel unique to Japan, instead of an imitation of overseas hotels. Following this philosophy, it was reborn as The Okura Tokyo in September 2019, with enhanced safety and comfort to meet modern needs. With the development concept of “Tradition and Innovation,” we strived to create a new Okura legacy as a continuation of its history of the past 50 years while offering new value for the coming 50 years.

Sumu Fumu Terrace / nendo

Hana Abdel — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 06:00:00 +0000

A communication lounge designed for the home builder Sekisui House Ltd. With the change in needs of potential homebuyers caused by the increasing amount of information available online, the conventional housing service with showhouse or room mockup has been replaced by a more long-term, intangible one such as consultation on lifestyle, maintenance, and adaptation to changing family structures.

Escenario SHIROKANE Building / Ryuichi Sasaki / Sasaki Architecture + Rieko Okumura / YTRO DESIGN INSTITUTE

Hana Abdel — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 22:00:00 +0000

This project has a triple role of residential, retail, and office spaces within the building complex. Located in Shirokane, Minato ward in Tokyo, it may be found at a corner of a four-way intersection on Gonohashidori — a street that extends to the south of Furukawa River.

Small Office in Minami Aoyama / Atelier Write

chlsey — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Small Office in Minami Aoyama. This is a project for a small office for a tech start-up company located in a quiet area of Minami Aoyama, Tokyo. Since the total plan was decided in the early stage, I was supposed to design the interior of the president’s room, however, I thought that the relationship of each room would improve the quality of the whole office, so I replanned to design the whole interior design of the office. Therefore, it was premised on a proposal that the cost would not increase significantly from the original general specifications. In this situation, it was needed to provide a president’s office, a meeting room that doubles as a place for several employees to work, and a seminar room for engineer training for other companies.

Hatsuse Mita Apartments / ihrmk

Hana Abdel — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0000

A big house. An owner-occupied rental apartment building typically has its owner’s penthouse above the rental units. Hatsuse Mita is also an owner-occupied property with several rental units, but its spatial organization is much different. The owner's family was forced to move out of their former residence due to the area's redevelopment project and they needed a new home that can adapt to changes in their family structure and society.