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House in Katsushika / Yo Irie Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

This is a house that was renovated from a 30-year-old steel-framed building with ALC exterior walls in Tokyo, Japan. The first floor was an office for a newspaper company, and the second and third floors were company housing. The site was an acute triangle overlooking the river to the east, and the existing plan was a simple triangle that followed the shape of the site.

AZUSA SEKKEI Headquarter “Haneda Sky Campus” / AZUSA SEKKEI

Hana Abdel — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000

Located in front of Haneda International Airport, HANEDA SKY CAMPUS is the headquarters of Azusa Sekkei, an architectural and engineering design firm with a wide range of portfolio such as Japan National Stadium where Tokyo 2020 Olympic will be held and countless airport terminals throughout Japan.

House in Tarumi / Yo Irie Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 08 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This site is a newly developed residential area, a high ground overlooking the sea near the city of Kobe, Japan. The development took place in recent years, and small-scale individual houses are lined up all around the neighborhood. The house-building industry has developed significantly, and excellent technologies used in efficient insulation products, equipment with high performance coefficients, high-strength engineered wood, energy saving lighting equipment, etc. have improved the performance of houses, but rather than simply relying on such individual functions, we would like to think about structures that work better when they integrate such technologies, so the whole house can function better and smarter.

Minamisoma City Fire Department Disaster Control Center / Tetsuo Kobori Architects + Nagayama Architect Office

Florencia Mena — Tue, 31 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000

Minamisoma city is the place suffered from the earthquake and tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Fire Department building of Minamisoma city was also damaged and required to be rebuilt. In the confusion of the aftermath of the earthquake, it took three years from the schematic design to the completion of building combining the functionalities of fire department with wide area fire-fighting headquarter, while this building became the first reconstructed public building in Minamisoma city.