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Uchida Shoten New Head Office / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:00:00 +0000

We planned the new head office for Uchida Shōten, a hardware manufacturer established 160 years ago in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. The surrounding area flourished as Fujisawa-juku, the sixth post town along the Tōkaidō road during the Edo period, a town lined with inns, teahouses, and merchants. Traces of this history remain in places, and the site itself is characterised by its narrow, elongated townhouse-style plot.

Teshima Factory / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Teshima Factory is a project that revitalised a former ironworks located in front of Ieura Port in Teshima Island as a cafeteria and food factory.

Le Labo Daikanyama / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000

This renovation of the Le Labo Daikanyama store marks our second project with the brand, following the Kyoto Machiya. Le Labo's Daikanyama boutique - its first location outside the U.S.- was renovated for the first time in 18 years, guided by the brand's desire to bring the craft of fresh fragrance blending to the forefront within the spatial design, and ensuring the boutique integrates seamlessly into the Tokyo streetscape.

CIMI Restaurant / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A low-key restaurant has opened in a secluded residential area in Yoyogi. It is located where a small cafe and grocery store, "FarmMart & Friends," that we previously designed had been. In a newly rented corner of the space, a small, special place where strangers could sit side by side and enjoy a meal was born.

bofumil sendagaya Café / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Bohumil Coffee opened in Seoul, South Korea, in May 2023. Since the summer of 2024, it has also operated as Bohumil sendagaya in the corner of Schemata Architect's office in Tokyo. Bohumil Coffee in Seoul is located in an old reinforced concrete building in Seongsu, a former factory district that has transformed into a trendy area with cafes, shops, and galleries. However, the building was slated for demolition and reconstruction, and the owner, Mr. Kim, was looking for a place to open a temporary shop while reconstruction was underway.

YAWN YARD Kouri Island / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0000

On Kouri Island, Okinawa, we designed a place for visitors to relax and enjoy a beautiful sea view. It consists of freestanding villas for families and groups of several people, all designed to allow guests to stay in privacy without worrying about the noise of adjoining guests. The premises are divided into two areas: one is a long, narrow site along the road, with an undulating topography; the other is a trapezoidal site, with an elevation difference. The plan was to build a series of villas on these narrow and distorted sites, but repeating buildings of the same shape there seemed difficult. Considering the inefficiency of making different plans for the individual buildings, we developed a more efficient design method using an inverted V-shaped unit combining two standardized plans.

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.

Blue Bottle Coffee Toyosu Park Cafe / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:00:00 +0000

This was the first commission for designing a new cafe building among the Blue Bottle Coffee projects we have undertaken to date. The site is in Toyosu Park overlooking Tokyo Bay, a seaside urban park frequented by locals as a place to relax while enjoying views of the skyscrapers.

Funamachi Base Store / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Eikodo Holdings, with a group of companies engaged in confectionery manufacturing in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, built a new mixed-use facility, including a café and a Japanese confectionery shop in Funamachi, the city center. Since the Edo period, Funamachi has flourished as a river port where people, goods, and cultures come and go. It is also known as the terminus of Matsuo Basho’s “Oku no Hosomichi” (The Narrow Road to the Deep North). The Funamachi Base, created to provide a lively place reminiscent of the past, began with the idea of a Japanese confectionery shop with a cafe as an extension of the adjoining park.

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.

Hakodate Sensyuan Sohonke Café / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Walking on the streets of Hakodate, one sees brick warehouses, Western-style buildings, and storehouses that give a sense of the city’s history as a port town open to the world. At the same time, one encounters many buildings featuring curious blends of Japanese and Western styles, with the first floor in Japanese and the second floor designed in Western style.

Hotel Jin / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The project involved renovating the former Ariake-so, a two-story wooden inn built in 1868 on the remote island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture, into a hotel. Tsushima is closer to Busan, Korea than to Kyushu, Japan.

Le Labo Kyoto Machiya / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Le Labo is a fragrance brand from New York. I first became aware of the brand in 2016, when many factory-style stores, such as Blue Bottle Coffee and Dandelion Chocolate, were emerging in Europe and the United States. I was walking down the streets of London when I chanced upon Le Labo’s distinctive space, with its striking matte black steel storefront reminiscent of a laboratory. My curiosity was piqued, but I wimped out and didn’t go in because I didn’t know what kind of store it was. Later, a friend told me it was a fragrance brand called Le Labo, with an in-store lab for manually blending fragrances, and it left a lasting impression on me.

Jakuets Tokyo Matsubara Office / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

JAKUETS, headquartered in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture, has 67 branches throughout Japan and is engaged in diverse educational businesses, ranging from the planning, development, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance of playground and educational equipment to the design of kindergartens, nursery schools, parks, and community development projects. In renovating the Tokyo branch, we made a plan for the future of the headquarters and its 67 branches, not just this one branch.

Furukawa Manufacturing Office and Factory / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Furukawa Manufacturing has been creating production systems for automobile parts and other items in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, one of the oldest factory zones for the automobile industry. To coincide with the new construction of a factory zone in the city, the company decided to build a new headquarters and a factory for automobile production lines.

Arario Gallery Seoul / Schemata Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Kim Swoo-geun’s masterpiece “Space,” a building designed between 1971 and 1977 during South Korea’s military dictatorship, explores the identity of Korean architecture by using bricks both inside and outside, a common building material in the country. Next to the building, Jang Se-yang, one of his disciples, built an open-plan glazed building in 1997 as a symbol of a new era, creating a strong contrast and marking the area’s history. In 2014, a traditional Korean hanok was relocated to the site, and the brick building was converted to a museum, while the glass building was converted to a restaurant.

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."

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

Hana Abdel — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0000

TODAY’S SPECIAL is a simple, not-too-fancy store evoking a sense of everyday life but offers 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."