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MONOSPINAL Headquarters Office Building / Makoto Yamaguchi Design

Hana Abdel — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A Place That Keeps On Supporting Creativity - The project is a relocation of the headquarters of a game production company based in Tokyo. It aims to become a place for the highest level of creation that captivates fans worldwide and supports the foundation of the game production process. As almost all employees engage exclusively in creative operation, we focused mainly on providing a balance between concentration and relaxation while significantly removing the burden of operational work. We strived to achieve them by introducing slanted walls that characterize the exterior and a system with tablets to control all facilities, including security.

CHIDORI TERRACE Co-operative Housing Complex / Teppei Fujiwara Architects Labo + FUJIWALABO / Teppei Fujiwara Architects Labo

Hana Abdel — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

An architecture that weaves the stories of the land together. A co-operative housing complex of 18 individual homes, each with its own garden, gathered around a multi-layered common ground. Built on a site with trees over 100 years old, with terrain that drops in height by over 2.5m from north to south.

Hiroshima Global Academy / C+A Coelacanth and Associates

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A large school that integrates architecture and nature. This school is a dormitory-based middle and high school integrated education school planned in Osakikamijima, Hiroshima Prefecture, in order to develop leaders who can create a "better future" in various regions and around the world.

Building of Music / Kensuke Aisaka

Hana Abdel — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000

This commercial complex for a music company with a long history includes music classrooms, instrument sales, and storage spaces, and the company’s main offices. Located in the Kanda-Ochanomizu area of Tokyo, which is known for its many music stores, the lot is small and irregularly shaped. The client requested a building that efficiently combined a variety of functions, including rooms for lessons in piano, violin, and other instruments; a hall for recitals; a professional recording equipment shop; storage for wholesale instrument sales; and offices to manage these various aspects of the businesses.

House & Restaurant / junya ishigami + associates

Hana Abdel — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The project is a residence/restaurant for a French restaurant owner. He is an old friend of mine, and he was the one who commissioned the Tables for a Restaurant. I was asked to design a building as “heavy” as possible. “I want an architecture whose heaviness would increase with time,” he said. “It cannot be artificially smooth but rather something with the roughness of nature. Authentic cuisines require such a place.” He also told me that “it has to look as if it has been there and will continue to be there for the longest time.” His idea was to create a brand-new long-established restaurant. He was longing for something that is both a house and a restaurant, something he could pass on to his children and grandchildren. Now, he invites guests to the restaurant as he would invite friends to his house, and with someone special, he would let them into the living room or even stay overnight. When the restaurant is closed, the hall serves as a place for the family to spend time or for the children to study. The plan is arranged with the restaurant on the north and the residence on the south. To go back and forth between the spaces, they can walk through any one of the three courtyards that separate them.

PEERLESS Store / MURAYAMA + KATO ARCHITECTURE

Hana Abdel — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The shop design for the flagship store of the Japanese fashion brand “visvim” in Shibuya PARCO. One of the important conditions for this space is natural light, even if it’s located within the context of a commercial building. Here, we decided to create the earthen floor full of natural light, to get the feeling of wilderness.

Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art / Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The museum has been built in Hirosaki, located in western Aomori Prefecture, Northern Japan. The city is known for being the largest producer of apples in Japan.

Amakasu House / FUJIWALABO / Teppei Fujiwara Architects Labo

Hana Abdel — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

As you walk around the city you occasionally come across a 'good house', a place where you can feel that the land, structure and people are all united. Is it possible to actually design such a house where architecture and lifestyle can develop a sense of unity over time?

Akizuki no Tori House / FUJIWALABO / Teppei Fujiwara Architects Labo

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Akizuki is an old village formed in a valley carved out by the flow of the Notori River and has long been known as a famous place for its clean, clear water. Most houses in the town still dig wells for their own drinking supply, and the crops grown in the surrounding fields are particularly delicious. The streets are lined with ancient stone walls, samurai houses, and machiya townhouses. It is a pristine town, very much rooted in the history and culture of the area.

Tomonoki-Himawari Kindergarten / MAMM DESIGN

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Tomonoki-Himawari Kindergarten, located in Tokyo’s Arakawa Ward, is a newly established private kindergarten with a capacity of 175 people. Seeing that the surrounding environment was densely populated by houses and factories, we aspired to create a space that would contribute to the growth of the children’s minds and bodies, and where the teachers and children could feel surrounded by nature. To achieve this, we arranged the classrooms and playroom to encircle the lush, green, light-filled garden to create a courtyard that brings the outside in.

Toyota Corolla Shinosaka Meishin Ibaraki Showroom / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

“A new geometry for a new era of Mobility”

F.I.L. FUKUOKA Shop / MURAYAMA + KATO ARCHITECTURE

Collin Chen — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The shop design for the flagship store of the Japanese fashion brand “visvim.” The shop is facing the serene street, with a hundred planted Zelkova trees and brick pavement. Vintage apartments standing along this street match the calm cityscape and nearby, there is the museum designed by Kunio Mayekawa, which has elegant vaulted ceiling and brick-cladding.

GYRE.FOOD Restaurants & Shops / Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects

Valeria Silva — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The GYRE complex has, since its opening in 2007 by Dutch architects MVRDV, had the philosophy of “SHOP & THINK” with the meaning of “living while being aware of topical issues of the world”. With the name GYRE, meaning vortex or rotation, it has become a unique commercial facility that attracts new energy and people through its philosophy. Based on the idea of ‘one floor, one concept’, ATTA designed 1,000m² of the GYRE 4th floor and the space will be reborn as GYRE.FOOD in November 2019.

Descente Innovation Studio Complex / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:00:00 +0000

SPEED IS ELEGANCE "That which is fast is always beautiful" These words express the true spirit of Descente, a company dedicated to designing for speed and form. The name Descente means to descend in French, and with a focus on the highest quality, the name is a symbol of the brand's bold spirit which is always one step ahead of the times. This spirit of Descente is being brought to the rolling hills and rich greenery of Saito, Osaka, a base area for many research labs, where a new research and development center for the brand is planned.

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.

Tenri Station Plaza CoFuFun / nendo

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000

The master plan for the station plaza at Tenri Station in Nara prefecture, located in the southwest region of Japan.

UNPLAN Kagurazaka / Aida Atelier

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:00:00 +0000

UNPLAN Kagurazaka is a newly opened hostel in central Tokyo, built to accommodate various guests such as international backpackers and domestic business travellers. The hostel houses 78 bunker styled beds and three fully enclosed rooms along with an open lounge and other supporting functions.

Ecotone Hotel In Biwako - Sound Of Wind / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & associates

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Setre Marina Hotel located in Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture looking at the Lake Biwa, is not only in the center area of the community but also pretends to be its catalyzer for its creation. Therefore we thought how trough design Future constructions could be operated, leading to construction and reconstruction of projects that besides having technology and materials that dwell in nature and history of the city, they would connect people to this concept of natural life and style.