Japanese architecture is perhaps one of the most profoundly beautiful, vulnerable and considered of the modern design ethics. Not unlike the cherry blossoms so revered and admired by the Japanese, there is a delicacy to the way the...
Masatoshi Hirai’s Team Living House invites us to reflect on the family home and family interactions. Our enduring perception of the family home is one that consists of separate bedrooms, bathrooms and defined kitchen, living and dining...
We visit the unassuming residential area of Anjō, Japan, and are treated to a lesson in design and space planning excellence by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates. Demonstrating their masterful approach to housing, Katsutoshi Sasaki +...
Opened earlier this year, ARCHI-DEPOT is the only museum in Japan specifically dedicated to simultaneously preserving and exhibiting architectural models. Located in a warehouse in Tokyo’s Shinagawa district, the museum features study...
TANK Architects emulate the art of “Kintsugi” in this Kyoto apartment by joining floor cracks with gold coloured epoxy-resin, transforming the imperfect into a subject of...
For “Seijaku”, the Couture collection presented in Paris on July 4th 2016, Iris van Herpen explored the study of Cymatics, which visualises sound waves as evolving geometric patterns. In Cymatics, the higher the frequency of the sound...