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Mardi Mercredi Daikanyama Store / Creative Studio Unravel

Hana Abdel — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Japan’s first flagship store of Mardi Mercredi is located along the path to Daikanyama Station. The project, encompassing site selection, design, contractor hiring, and completion, took about nine months.

AEAJ Green Terrace / Kengo Kuma & Associates

Hana Abdel — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0000

AEAJ Green Terrace: New facility for Aroma Environment Association of Japan. An overall shape that looks like a tree was assembled using small section pieces (105mm×105mm) of Japanese cypress based on the theme of the aroma of wood and enclosing it inside a glass box. This glass box is filled with the aroma of wood, creating space where you can experience the fragrance throughout the facility.

G Apartment Renovation / Yoshiteru Kishida + IIIRDPROJECT

Hana Abdel — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

An originally one-bedroom apartment located on one of the upper floors of an apartment building in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, was renovated into a home for a single person (family). The client, who has a variety of hobbies, wanted an open and spacious layout that would allow various objects to be freely laid out and would be able to accommodate future changes in the family.

KYOYA Office / SAKUMAESHIMA

Hana Abdel — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:00:00 +0000

This is an Interior design project for the relocation of the new office building of KYOYA Corporation, which is a long-established company founded in 1928 that provides promotion, interior design, and display services. This project site is located in an area dotted with fashion brand offices, a short walk from JR Harajuku Station in the Sendagaya direction. The project utilizes an existing building with one basement floor and three stories above ground. The building was originally a vocational school and was converted into office space, a showroom, and rental space.

Aito-denkimochiten Japanese Sweets Shop / SPEC

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Daifuku is a traditional Japanese confectionery. At Aito-Denkimochiten, their special Daifuku is made from mochi rice cakes using the same method used 100 years ago, without any additives or preservatives, and they have been selling it at the same location. They are considered fresh for only five hours, and the amazingly soft mochi is filled with a delicate, feather-light red bean paste.

URA Store / InsideOut

Hana Abdel — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000

URA means “ backside, opposite, behind, reverse " in Japanese. Concept shop by fashion designer "Mihara Yasuhiro" dealing with products that take into account environmental and social responsibility from a multifaceted perspective. A quiet, narrow, semi-basement plot on a back street in Harajuku/Jingumae Tokyo.

TRUNK (HOTEL) YOYOGI PARK / Keiji Ashizawa Design

Hana Abdel — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

TRUNK(HOTEL) YOYOGI PARK, located in Tomigaya, Tokyo, is a 7-story boutique hotel with 25 guest rooms, including 5 suites, a rooftop & lounge that overlooks the lush green Yoyogi Park, and a restaurant on the ground floor. For this project, we were tasked with the architecture and interior design, FFE selections, and some of the styling for all spaces.

TODAY’S SPECIAL Ebisu Store / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

TODAY’S SPECIAL is a simple, not-too-fancy store evoking a sense of everyday life but offering the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. It gives one a sense of anticipation before even going to the store, like, "Maybe they have what I have been looking for if I go there." And when one goes there, it makes them feel, "Maybe this is what I really wanted."

Coeru Shibuya Offices and Commercial Building / Maeda Corporation

Hana Abdel — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:00:00 +0000

While the demand for timber materials for building construction has been increasing for recent years, Maeda Corporation and Holzstr in collaboration have developed Timber-Steel Hybrid structural brace “Mokkou-Kumiko.” This structure binds a steel plate by exposed red pine wood unitizing it into a lattice system that takes advantage of both toughness of compression by wood, and its tension by steel making high seismic resistance.

all day place Hotel / DDAA

Hana Abdel — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

This project involves a 160-room hotel operated by UDS under the theme of a "public house in the city." The site is halfway up the slope from Shibuya (meaning "Shibu valley") to Aoyama (meaning a "blue mountain"), literally the midpoint between the valley and the mountain. It has an atmosphere combining Shibuya and Aoyama. In front of the site is Mitake Park. Here we set out to create a hotel with a welcoming public atmosphere that embraces people's unrestrained behaviors and noises, echoing the park environment.

BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE Pop Up Cafe Shibuya / Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0000

This project was started when James Freeman, the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee, gave me the offer after a long time. This development began in response to the fact that the face-to-face customer service was becoming increasingly difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and measures for indirect customer service were needed. The design was inspired by the image of a beehive.

Ouloukyo House / A.A.E.

Hana Abdel — Mon, 29 May 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Ouloukyo is a living space around a Sakura tree.

Kuwasawa Design School / moss.

Hana Abdel — Sun, 21 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

A place for future creators to explore design and nurture the design of the future. The first phase of construction of the new Kuwasawa Design School building, the first design school in Japan. The project began with the complete renovation of a building located not far from the current school building, with the aim of enhancing its functions by operating it in tandem with the current school building.

tracing / ambientdesigns

Hadir Al Koshta — Sun, 14 May 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Tracing - Interior design for a complex consisting of a 'gallery' for exhibitions of pop art, fashion, and commercials, a 'store' for sales of exhibition-related goods, and a 'studio' for filming and recording. The floor plan takes into account the fact that the site is a street-level tenant on Omotesando and the deep plan shape, and is arranged in the following order from the front: store, gallery, and studios for use by related parties only.

Hoth Photo Studio / SPEC

Hana Abdel — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This photography studio is located on the fifth and sixth floors of a small six-story building. It can be rented for seasonal apparel brand looks, product photography with models for e-commerce sites, and exhibitions. As a result of its purpose, most of the space is taken up by plain white walls, wooden walls, white ceilings, and simple concrete floors, which are needed by many users.

Lyonesse Pictures Office / Kii inc.

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Located in a 50-year-old tenant building in Tokyo, the new office of Lyonesse Pictures, a video production company specializing in drama and movie genres, welcomes employees into a brightly colored and light-filled workspace. Taking advantage of natural lighting shining through the space’s three large windows, planned to create a highly transparent space where the entire floor can be felt as one.

FarmMart & Friends Shop and Kitchen / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Projects to create places I would want to patronize are very special to me, and I am willing to work with the clients no matter the budget, as long as we are on the same wavelength. This project is one such example. I often ride my bicycle to work, and this place is right on the way to my office.

Esprit House / APOLLO Architects & Associates

Hana Abdel — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:00:00 +0000

A massive concrete and glass exterior defines this house in a downtown residential neighborhood. The client, who runs a company that uses flowers and greenery to design lifestyles, wanted to incorporate that concept into a residence that rethinks the home as both private and open to the public sphere.