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AOI CELESTIE Coffee Roastery / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The AOI CELESTIE COFFEE ROASTERY is located in the community facilities complex at the corner of Nishiki-dori Street and Route 153, in front of Nagoya Shinsakae-machi Station. The Nagoya-based logistics company came up with the idea of adding a café to the complex to enliven the local community. Their vision was to create a landmark community space for the locals, with the café at its heart.

Expo 2025 Osaka Women’s Pavilion in Collaboration with Cartier / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Women's Pavilion, in collaboration with Cartier, is a pavilion themed around the promotion of women's empowerment. The project incorporates two key elements that carry forward the themes of Expo 2020 Dubai into Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.

Expo 2025 Osaka Panasonic Group Pavilion / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Panasonic Group Pavilion, The Land of NOMO, is designed for children. Through an organic and fluid architectural form, the pavilion seeks to reflect the image of children, whose futures remain unfixed and ever-evolving. While the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai featured a highly systemized structure based on geometry, the Panasonic Pavilion explores a structural approach that appears free-form and organic.

The Kagerou Village / Tato Architects + ludwig heimbach architektur

Andreas Luco — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The village that appeared and disappeared in the school grounds of a former elementary school like a mirage at the end of summer. The extemporaneous exhibition was created in the schoolyard of a former school, founded by the donations of local citizen’s, now used as an art center.

Drifting House / Kosaku Matsumoto

Hana Abdel — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

This apartment renovation project is for a couple in their 50s. They love to read and have a considerable collection of books. Their wish was to spend an active life with the books in open space like a studio room.

Knot-hole House / ICADA

Andreas Luco — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:00:00 +0000

The House is located in a coastal town in Hiroshima, Japan, surrounded by beautiful ocean and mountains. The client, who is a painter, and his wife wanted a timber annex beside their concrete house. The required functions to this annex are almost like a house; extra living room, kitchen, bathroom, small workshop and garage.

Space of No Use Showroom / Kosaku Matsumoto

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The renovation of a small retail space previously used as a barber in Shirokane, Minato Ward did not occur with any particular request from the owner: except that the location will be used as an apparel showroom several times a year. In addition, the existing walls and ceiling of the space was made in plasterboard, with linoleum floor covering. In order to discover more from this banal space that has no particular feature or use, I decided to proceed and redesign the space while staying on site.

The Mirror Window / Kosaku Matsumoto

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

A partial renovation of the office area within a building complex that hosts a workshop space, an office and a contemporary art gallery. The project was completed after designs and constructions made during three months of the architect’s on-site residency.

KOHTEI / SANDWICH

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

KOHTEI is an art pavilion built in Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens within the campus of Tenshinzan Shinshoji temple in Fukuyama-city, Hiroshima, Japan. The temple was founded by the shipbuilding company to console the spirit of the dead in accidents at sea and industry. Visitors can expect a memorable Zen experience at the complex. KOHTEI offers the visitors an opportunity to contemplate spirit of Zen by looking at its landscape/gardens and being subjected to a meditation like experience through its art installation. The building is designed by Japanese contemporary artist, Kohei Nawa and SANDWICH. The architecture within SANDWICH was directed by Lee Yoshitaka and Yuichi Kodai.

Kyodo House / SANDWICH + team Low-energy

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 18:00:00 +0000

A house designed to make effective use of natural energy.

IZAMA / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Located on a center of Kyoto, along the historical street of Nakagyo-ku you see a one storied Japanese restaurant "IZAMA" which is made of two parts, a cozy traditional warehouse and a large corner cut from a recently built hotel.

Teshima Yokoo House / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Teshima, an old port town lying in Seto Inland Sea, “Teshima Yokoo House” sits as an art museum in such an old community as most of the people are the elderly.