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KItoNOKO – NIKKO HOME Group Hiroshima Office / ure LLC

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0000

KITONOKO is a community-oriented complex located in a suburban commercial district, conceived as a place where architecture quietly connects people, work, and everyday life. Surrounded by large-scale retail and roadside developments, the project seeks to introduce a more human-scaled, open, and approachable environment within a typically car-oriented context. Rather than operating as a closed commercial facility, the building encourages local residents, visitors, and staff to naturally intersect through spatial openness and continuity.

Three Roofs Timber Hall / OOTT

Valeria Silva — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:00:00 +0000

This project is a hall set quietly within the forest of Karuizawa, a renowned summer retreat. The facility is the result of a project that has been cultivated collaboratively with the client and contractor over a period of approximately ten years.

Sa_Yu House / FATHOM

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Sa_Yu, located on a hilly site in Kure City, Hiroshima, is an architectural project that redefines the very notion of dwelling by overlapping two temporal layers — renovation and extension. Beginning with the renovation of a 70-year-old wooden one-story house and followed by the addition of a new community wing at the rear of the site, the project evolves from a private home into an architecture of relationships — where people, spaces, and time are gently intertwined.

Sakuragawa Apartment Renovation / Osaka Design Department

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:00:00 +0000

This renovation project reimagines a 60-square-meter apartment by maximizing visual and spatial fluidity while carefully designing light and shadow to enhance depth, openness, and a three-dimensional spatial experience. Despite its compact footprint, the apartment unfolds with a richness of perception and movement, orchestrated through shifting sightlines, varied floor levels, and nuanced material transitions. The generous ceiling height and a private roof terrace serve as key spatial assets, enabling a layout that encourages both fluid circulation and moments of calm, shared intimacy.

nuru Hair Salon / FATHOM

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 11 May 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The area near the elevated railway tracks that form the infrastructure of this highly convenient area, where highway interchanges and train stations are concentrated, is a bit lonely, as if it were the backside of a city that has been left behind in its development, with its many factories and warehouses.

Hair Salon 1975 / FATHOM

ArchDaily Team — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This is a project to convert a property with a poor approach into a men's salon on the third floor of a tenant building in an arcade in Naka Ward, Hiroshima City, which is entered from a closed and narrow spiral staircase. By using the poor visibility and approach as a backhand, the shop proposes fashion, art, and lifestyle that only those who arrive here can know. We wondered if we could create a space like a members-only online salon that only you know about and don't want to share with others, making you want to come back again. The name of the shop is derived from the British musician of the same name, The 1975, and I had listened to his albums in the past, so music became a common image source with the client.

qiyu Hair Salon / FATHOM

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0000

A project to open a hair salon in Hiroshima by a couple who run a modelling and hairstylist business from two bases in Tokyo and Hiroshima. They live apart from each other and can only spend a short time together, so they wondered if they could project their lives between Tokyo and Hiroshima into the space of their shop, which is not their home.

LEAD VIP Room Store / TEKI Design

Hana Abdel — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Used clothes give the image of being cheap and easy to buy. Many products are available in a wide variety with no gaps between them. What is called "vintage, has been carefully passed down from generation to generation. They have increased in social value due to their historical background and rarity.

T House / FATHOM

Hana Abdel — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000

When we were commissioned to renovate a newly built condominium for sale, our challenge was to create a space that would make the most of the new and beautiful living environment that was currently fully habitable. During our visits to the site, we observed that while the location, security, and convenience were excellent, the furnishings and other items were a combination of mass-produced, ready-made items. This seemed to us to be a combination that could be considered luxurious, but perhaps not in the way that the client had in mind. We felt that this was where the answer lay this time.

Maxell Kuse Ga Aru Studio / kvalito

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

The “KUSE GA ARU (quirky) STUDIO,” located within the “Art & Technology Village Kyoto (ATVK),” is a small building of approximately 100 square meters on Maxell Corporation’s site. Collaborating with Kyoto Prefecture and KYOTO Industrial Support Organization 21, Maxell aims to create new value by “mixing (MAZERU)” its own expertise, next-generation talent, and previously unencountered sensibilities, technologies, and creativity. The studio hosts awards (KUSE ga aru Award: MAZERU) for young creators, as well as talk events, workshops, and more.

MANOA Used Clothing Store / FATHOM

Hana Abdel — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:00:00 +0000

This is a relocation project for a vintage clothing store that has had a store on a semi-underground location on Namiki-dori in Naka-ku, Hiroshima City for many years. Since the new location would be on the first floor and more than double the space, we were asked to design a store that would not only cater to the core vintage clothing enthusiasts of the past, but would also broaden its customer base. When I looked at the items lined up in the space before the relocation, I felt as if they were one-of-a-kind haute couture pieces that, despite being vintage clothing, conveyed the handiwork of careful processing of each item, It had the power to instantly change the concept of vintage clothing that I had felt before, I felt it was necessary to create a space that would convey this impression to visitors.

Laboratory Renovation for Panasonic Industry / kvalito

Hana Abdel — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 23:00:00 +0000

A laboratory renovation project for Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd. - A laboratory renovation project for Panasonic Industry Co., Ltd., which develops and produces various electronic devices. Due to the preconditions of the project, where it is difficult to change existing walls, ceilings, equipment, etc., the inside of the existing frame is made possible by original fixtures using single pipes (counters, benches, storage shelves, exhibition space, whiteboards, perforated board walls, etc.). The intention was to create a diverse range of venues. The existing heavy workbench is reused, and the color scheme is set based on the color of its legs.

tutiru Café / FATHOM

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0000

A cafe and flower store complex run by a farmer who produces mums (Western chrysanthemums) in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture. Mums are characterized by their straight stems and blooming flowers, and there are as many as 400 varieties. In Japan, chrysanthemums are often associated with weddings and funerals, but the farmer hopes to spread the various kinds of beauty that come from the dignified stems to people's daily lives through food.

MyouKei-An House / kvalito

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

MyouKei-An" is a small one-story wooden house designed as a retirement retreat for a retiring 12th-generation female priest. The site was located along the approach to the temple, which has limited space. Originally, a prefabricated warehouse and a garage had been built there, so it was important to create a house and at the same time, to improve the landscape of the temple grounds.

kiow Hair Salon and Store / FATHOM

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This is a complex of a hair salon and an apparel store that connects fashion and beauty. After considering the area ratio of the two businesses in the limited area of 30 tsubo, the idea of not separating the two businesses equally, but rather having the apparel store as a one-on-one face-to-face sales operation with the apparel store as one of the cutting seats, came to mind. Instead of arranging a variety of designs and sizes as in a regular apparel store, we thought that if we could select clothes based on sharing the customer's taste, sense, and feeling that only a hair stylist can gain from providing long hours of face-to-face service, and if we could create a small store with products selected just for that person, it would be We thought it would be a good idea.

unbirthday Shop / FATHOM

Hana Abdel — Thu, 04 May 2023 01:00:00 +0000

One day out of 365 is someone's birthday. If that one day is a wedge that marks the anniversary of a person's birthday, the remaining 364 days are a period of ordinary, ordinary life during which a person grows up. People cherish these days. The name of unbirthday, a children's clothing boutique in Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, may have such a meaning.

FUYU Salon / FATHOM

Hana Abdel — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 01:00:00 +0000

This is a project to renovate a former retro hair salon on the second floor of a building on a narrow alley that seems to have been left behind by urban development, a short walk across the street on Hondori Avenue in Naka Ward, Hiroshima City. The name of the store was coined from the first and last name of the owner, instead of the seasonal winter word FUYU. When I visited the site for the first time and heard the name and meaning of the store from the owner, I was surprised by his view of the world and thought that FUYU could be a way to break away from the mundane and conventional. I felt there was a possibility that I could create a space with a different approach.

Kyslik Salon / TEKI Design

Hana Abdel — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:00:00 +0000

We wanted to create a place in a quiet residential area that could combine a beauty salon with a small seating area and dance classes. The project began with such a request.