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Coop. M / note architects

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000

We renovated a 45-year-old vintage apartment building in Tokyo. A huge cross-shaped beam crossed the residence. The beam restricted the floor plan, but we felt that it created an extremely attractive landscape, with a sense of inclusiveness that seemed to envelop it from above. However, the existing home had a typical family layout, with only a group of private rooms. As a result, the beam appeared fragmented, and the plan did not fully utilize the natural beauty of the landscape. We envisioned a scene that would make the most of the landscape, with a family of four living together under a beam.

Teshima Factory / Schemata Architects + Jo Nagasaka

Hana Abdel — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +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.

Kite-Shaped House / Shuji Yamada

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Kite-Shaped House Reflecting Site Conditions - Built on an irregular plot in Kamakura, this house features a distinctive kite-shaped floor plan. It strikes a balance between privacy and openness by using walls and approaches to blur the boundaries of the site, creating rhythm in the surrounding streetscape.

Space-Saving Solutions: 33 Creative Storage Ideas

María Francisca González — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:00:00 +0000

The lack of storage space is a recurrent problem in homes. In most cases, residual spaces or uncomfortable corners are used to solve the lack of shelves, drawers, and closets. To efficiently incorporate these type of spaces into your designs, here are 33 remarkable storage examples.

Beauty Shop in Uematsu / Poten-Poten

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0000

The site faces a main street lined with shops of various sizes in the center of Nagano. Since there are many schools in the area, children are often seen. This plan envisioned the renovation of a combination shop-and-residence that had stood on this site for more than 50 years. In addition to the function of a beauty shop, a wide range of other functions were also required, including living space, space for the sale of miscellaneous items, and an exhibition room, study room and event space for the community. Therefore, the aims were to secure flexibility responding to these diverse functions by removing the partition walls that had divided the structure into smaller spaces, and an open ceiling space by removing part of the floor of 2nd story.

Bankara Store / studio201architects

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:00:00 +0000

This project is about renewing a wooden single floor house from the 1940s into a vintage clothing store. This takes place in a place 5min from the Omiya Station in Saitama city, Saitama Prefecture.

Shonen Junk / studio#201

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This plan is for the interior of a vintage clothing store along the Cat Street on the outer neighborhoods of Harajuku. The characteristic of this location is the staircase that looks good from the street despite being an underground store.