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Misato Canoe Boathouse / STUDIO YY

Pratik Mour — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:45:00 +0000

For the 2030 Shimane National Sports Festival, an unconventional design proposal was carried out in Misato Town: the construction of a canoe boathouse incorporating Balinese architectural elements, to serve as both a competitive venue along the Gonokawa River and a training facility for local canoe clubs. The new boathouse is anticipated to become a cultural landmark and tourism asset for the town.

Makino's Roadside Station / Wakatake Town Planning Research Institute + STUDIO YY + WORKSTATION

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Located in Sakawa, Kochi Prefecture — the birthplace of Tomitaro Makino, the father of Japanese botany — this roadside station (Michi-no-Eki) was selected through an open proposal competition. To honor the legacy of Dr. Makino, whose name the facility bears, we set aside the given conditions and started from zero, driven by a single ambition: to draw out the full beauty of the natural landscape that Makino himself cherished in Sakawa. The town's mayor, who served on the jury, later remarked that our proposal had appeared in his dreams — a testament to how deeply the design was rooted in the spirit of Sakawa.

A Hill Kindergarten in Japan / STUDIO YY

Hana Abdel — Fri, 06 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Studio YY reimagines kindergarten as a hill in the forest - This is a project to reconstruct a 50-year-old kindergarten into a certified childcare center in a one-story wooden building. The site is surrounded by a number of apartment complexes.