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Reimei Kobashi Pedestrian Bridge / Hoshino Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

The Reimei Kobashi footbridge, which connects Kachidoki Station and Harumi 3-chome in Tokyo's waterfront district, opened to the public on March 25, 2024. This footbridge crosses the Asashio Canal to Grand Marina Tokyo, with a soft arching design reminiscent of gentle waves rolling over the water's surface.

Hotel Rakuragu / kooo architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

On a limited 84-square-meter plot in Tokyo's central district, kooo Architects focused on the "gaps" within the urban fabric to design Hotel Rakuragu — a 9-story hotel with open views despite its compact site. Terrace: The area is surrounded by typical mixed-use buildings in downtown Tokyo, lacking scenic vistas or uniform design regulations for neighboring structures in height, width, or materials. Unlike typical Tokyo hotels that omit balconies to maximize room space, kooo Architects observed the surrounding buildings and oriented each floor's openings toward urban gaps, creating balconies in varying directions. Each room features a unique balcony design, allowing guests to experience diverse views from different floors. This approach resulted in a building that appears as a white cuboid carved with irregular voids, forming a rhythmic façade.

AD Classics: Maison Hermès / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Tokyo's bustling Ginza district, where tradition and modernity converge, the Maison Hermès emerges as a luminous architectural icon. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in 2001, the 15-story structure serves as the Japanese headquarters of Hermès, the renowned French luxury brand celebrated for its craftsmanship and timeless elegance. Beyond its function as a commercial hub, the building encapsulates Hermès' ethos, transforming its urban site into a dialogue between light, materiality, and context.

The Shizuoka Shimbun, Shizuoka Broadcasting System Tokyo Branch Office Renovation / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

This project involved preserving and restoring a modernist building built in 1967 in Ginza, Tokyo, known as an example of Metabolism architecture. This building is a distinctive work by Kenzo Tange, one of Japan's most celebrated architects, who devised a creative new form for a small site located in a place that symbolizes Japan's post-war period of rapid economic growth. The cylindrical core at the center of the building houses vertical circulation routes such as stairs, elevators, and piping. The office spaces protrude outwards from the core, giving it a distinctive appearance.

Ginza Wooden Box - Ginza Takagi Building / Tetsuo Yamaji Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The Tallest Wooden Skyscraper in Japan – We designed a 12-story commercial complex on Ginza Sotobori Dori Street in Tokyo. The top four floors are wood-framed, giving the steel-framed structure the appearance of a wooden box atop an office building. The lower and upper floors are commercial, while the middle floors house offices and tenants. The basement is reinforced concrete, the first eight floors are steel-framed, and the upper four floors are wooden. Cedarwood from Tama, Tokyo, was used for the exterior and interior finishes.

andwander GINZA SIX Store / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:00:00 +0000

and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own unique cutting and design, which you only notice when you hold it in your hands, giving you the pleasure of discovering something new each time. A grid system suspended from the ceiling was used to create a moveable layout, allowing flexible arrangements of lighting, hangers, posters, fitting rooms, etc.

House “irfn” / Daisuke Yamashita Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000

This residence is for a married couple with two children. It was built on a typical small plot in a highly dense urban area.

Meet Tree Store / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000

This design was for a store in Ginza, newly opened by the sweets and cosmetics brand Meet Tree. This brand is managed by a lumber company in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture.

YANMAR TOKYO Commercial and Office Building / Nikken Sekkei

Hana Abdel — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

YANMAR TOKYO—A corporate brand sets sail toward the world - The reconstruction plan for the Yanmar Tokyo office on the east side of Tokyo Station, one of Japan’s most iconic train terminals. Yaesu, the business district to the east of the station, was a center for logistics by canal in the Edo era. Today, it has become a popular district with some of the best development potential in the country, with several major redevelopment projects taking root. The building bridges Tokyo Station and the Yaesu area and acts as a branding hub for Yanmar, a company that develops technology for “food production” and “energy conversion” worldwide. Its exterior and interior environment are designed to make it a suitable face for the company in this station-front location.

The Museum Tower Kyobashi / Nikken Sekkei

Hana Abdel — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Construction was completed on the Museum Tower Kyobashi, designed by Nikken Sekkei, in July 2019. The Artizon Museum, located on the lower floor, opened on January 18, 2020. The approximately 150-m high Museum Tower Kyobashi housing high-grade tenant offices and an art museum is located in Kyobashi in front of Tokyo Station. Honoring the philosophy of the founder of Bridgestone Tire (present Bridgestone) Shojiro Ishibashi who built the Bridgestone Museum of Art in 1951—forerunner to the Artizon Museum and a state-of-the-art structure at the time—this client-collaborative design was intended to create a new era of architecture embodying the social environment and cutting-edge technologies of 2020.

COCOON Beauty Salon / KAMITOPEN

chlsey — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

There is a beauty salon "Cocoon" in Ginza district in Tokyo that was founded in 2000. It has been open for 21 years. In the time of COVID restrictions, we were asked to create a space that would be well-ventilated and easy to stop by. The place is situated under a railway viaduct that is a very rare place to have a store, even in Ginza district.

Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki / AS Co. + Peter Marino Architect

Hana Abdel — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000

With great anticipation, Louis Vuitton announces the arrival of Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The store presents an ambitious transformation of an existing location. Reimagined as an aesthetic dialogue between virtuoso architects, Jun Aoki and Peter Marino, an entirely new, naturalistic tower rises, inspiring wonder – both outside and within.

Okura House / TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:00:00 +0000

4th generation building in Ginza seeks for further advancement of tradition and innovation. This 4th generation “Okura House” dates back to the Meiji era.This building stands at the corner of Ginza 2-chome which is called the platinum corner and lined up with famous brands.

T-HOUSE New Balance Store / Schemata Architects + ondesign Partners

Hana Abdel — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The goal of this project was to dismantle an old "kura" (Japanese traditional warehouse) in Kawagoe, transport the components to the site and reassemble them to create a new space. Instead of simply reassembling the structure on the site, the client's plan was to build a new structure on the site and reassemble the structural framework of kura inside it. We were concerned that it might end up looking like an old folk house displayed in a museum, and started developing ideas for the project while questioning its fakeness.

PLAID Offices / BROOK Inc.

Hana Abdel — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Upon their relocation to the four times bigger office space in the heart of Tokyo, PLAID was looking to create contemporary offices realizing all of their ideal workplace ideas that they could not have in the previous offices. However, we had a chance to think twice before the completion of the preliminary design, as PLAID raised a doubt that their new offices cramming all their requirements might not be able to keep up with their future business changes.

JINS Ginza Loft Shop / Schemata Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 23:00:00 +0000

We started this project by thinking about eyeglass holders. After studying and comparing various daily goods, we determined that the Scotch-Brite Sponge Ace holds eyeglasses in the most gentle and stable way.

Multi-Tenant Building In Ginza / SO&CO.

Andreas Luco — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 02:00:00 +0000

First impression. The site, located in an anonymous alley near the one of Ginza’s main streets, was abandoned for three years when the project started. With a front to the street of only 2.7 meters, and the tall buildings surrounding it as walls to its boundaries, if you were to look up from the inside of the site, you could see a perfect L shaped fraction of the sky. This particular location and its narrow shape suggest the idea of going from an alley to another alley. This feeling, as well as the importance of the natural zenith light, are the two ideas that triggered the design of this project.