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Japan:

A rainbow-multihued installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux

The artist used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create an installation designed to visualise the passing of time.

Photography is by Daisuke Shima. On show at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Toyama, Japan, the Colour of Time installation is part of a series of…

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A tree-inspired chapel in Japan

Japanese architect Yu Momoeda has completed a chapel whose interior comprises a structural system based on fractal geometries.

The chapel’s interior comprises a structural system based on fractal geometries. Image by Yousuke Harigane. Located in Nagasaki, a Japanese city on the northwest coast of Kyushu Island, the chapel…

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A colorful façade for the nursery school of Sendai, in Japan

Designed by Masahiko Fujimori architects, the nursey welcomes students into a creative and comfortable learning space.

Masahiko Fujimori Architects has designed Sendai city’s morinoie nursery school. Image by Shigeo Ogawa. The Japanese city of Sendai has recently experienced a period of urban redevelopment and additionally, population…

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The essence of Japanese culture permeates Sun Tianwen new restaurant design

The restaurant is designed to capture "setsugekka", an important aspect of Japanese culture.

All images © Zhang Jing. Chief architect Sun Tianwen of Shanghai Hip-pop Architectural Decoration Design Co. captures the spirit of Japanese cuisine in his latest waka haiku setsugekka restaurant project.…

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Earthquake-damaged storehouse transformed into a living space

The structure has been rebuilt for the future generations and renamed "Rebirth House".

Squares of light shine through the perforated brick facade of this former storehouse, which architect Ryo Matsui has converted into an entertaining space after it was partially destroyed in Japan's 2011 earthquake. The 120-year-old…

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The ballet school with shell-like roof in Japan

The top heavy structure tries to be easy coming for the town.

Photography by Yohei Sasakura The top heavy structure in a quiet neighbor in Tokushima city is a classic ballet school by Y+M design office. Characterized by a three tier structural form,…

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Treehouse as a vantage point over a Japanese woodland

The wooden pavilion has been shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan.

Israeli illustrator Noma Bar has created a wooden pavilion shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan. Bar was commissioned by…

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Curved walls and different-shaped doorways added to a Japanese apartment

Three gently curving walls have been used by the designers to create more fluid spaces

Arched, rectangular and pentagonal doorways cut through the three bowed walls that frame the dining room of this apartment by MAMM Design on the outskirts of Tokyo. The Tokyo-based studio reorganised the interior of the 30-year-old apartment, in…

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Fly Out: the house balancing on a concrete wall

The challenge was set up to avoid overlooking a busy road

This timber-framed house by architect Tatsuyuki Takagi is raised up by a cantilevered concrete slab, keeping it away from a busy road in Toyohashi, Japan. The cantilevered volume provides a…

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From Tokyo to Milwaukee: Sou Fujimoto at University of Wisconsin

A small architectural installation entitled faBRICK has been realised by Fujimoto and his students

With the award of the $100,000 Marcus Prize to Sou Fujimoto in 2013, graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture were offered the rare opportunity to…

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Japan:

A rainbow-multihued installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux

The artist used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create an installation designed to visualise the passing of time.

A tree-inspired chapel in Japan

Japanese architect Yu Momoeda has completed a chapel whose interior comprises a structural system based on fractal geometries.

A colorful façade for the nursery school of Sendai, in Japan

Designed by Masahiko Fujimori architects, the nursey welcomes students into a creative and comfortable learning space.

The essence of Japanese culture permeates Sun Tianwen new restaurant design

The restaurant is designed to capture "setsugekka", an important aspect of Japanese culture.

Earthquake-damaged storehouse transformed into a living space

The structure has been rebuilt for the future generations and renamed "Rebirth House".

The ballet school with shell-like roof in Japan

The top heavy structure tries to be easy coming for the town.

Treehouse as a vantage point over a Japanese woodland

The wooden pavilion has been shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan.

Curved walls and different-shaped doorways added to a Japanese apartment

Three gently curving walls have been used by the designers to create more fluid spaces

Fly Out: the house balancing on a concrete wall

The challenge was set up to avoid overlooking a busy road

From Tokyo to Milwaukee: Sou Fujimoto at University of Wisconsin

A small architectural installation entitled faBRICK has been realised by Fujimoto and his students

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