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Nishiogi Comichi Terrace / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

This cluster of row houses is located about ten minutes on foot from Nishi-Ogikubo Station in a quiet residential area of Suginami, Tokyo, within a neighborhood of detached homes. While Nishi-Ogikubo is often associated with its lively backstreets, bars, and independent shops, a short walk away reveals a calmer landscape of narrow lanes, flourishing gardens, and a dense yet humane living environment.

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.

Kyukaruizawa Club Villa / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This is the first of a series of ready-built holiday villas for sale, planned by Naruse Inokuma Architects with Kyukaruizawa Club, an organization that manages an area of holiday homes in Karuizawa.

Dance of Light Installation / Naruse Inokuma Architects + a round architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

A Meditation of Light in Everyday Life.This work was realized through an international competition held as part of a public art project organized by the city of Seoul in 2016. Next to our site, Noksapyeong Station, is a place that was used for a long period of time as a foreign army base. In 2017, it was publicized that it would be transformed into a park for the people. The renovation of Noksapyeong Station began as a means of enlivening the space together with this park project. We therefore wanted to create a bright, gentle space for meditation in this station that would honor this region’s forthcoming future and hope for peace.

Nine Hours Capsule Hotel / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 02:00:00 +0000

This project creates a new standard for capsule hotels. The business model called the capsule hotel first began in Japan specializing only in offering cheap stays, and the comfort of their lodging spaces have long been overlooked. We thus designed a completely new form of capsule hotel that reinvents its conventional image and pursues functionality while simultaneously providing a rich staying experience.

Mount Takao Sumika / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:00:00 +0000

This design was for a shop annexed to a cable car station at the top of Mount Takao, a tourist destination near Tokyo that has been awarded three stars on the Michelin Green Guide Japan. Before our renovation, there were rows of shop entrances lining the road from the station to the mountain trail. Each of these shops was small and detached from one another, and the souvenir shops were not benefiting from the customers flowing into the café and restaurant.

Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

KOIL (Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab) is an innovation center intended to support start-ups of entrepreneurs, promote enterprise developments and stimulate economic activities in Japan. It is a place like a platform where companies and individuals work together beyond a traditional framework and fuse ideas, skills and know-how to produce innovative products and services, which is facilitated and realized by the system with investors’ supports.

LT Josai Shared House / Naruse Inokuma Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

This is a plan for a newly-built "share house," a singular model of housing, even within the architectural industry. The "share house" is an increasingly popular style of living in Japan, somewhat close to a large house, where the water systems and living room are shared by the residents. What makes it different from a large house, however, is that the residents are not family and are, instead, unrelated strangers. So a special technique in both its management and its space becomes necessary for complete strangers to naturally continue to share spaces with one another.