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Adam Nathaniel Furman’s Nagatachō Apartment is designed to be a “visual feast”

January 30, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Nagatachō Apartment by Adam Nathaniel Furman

A bubblegum-pink kitchen and stripey watermelon-green floor are some of the features inside this Tokyo apartment, which designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has completed in a sugar-sweet colour palette. Described by Adam Nathaniel Furman as a formerly “claustrophobic” space, the Nagatachō Apartment had previously contained several cramped rooms that were arranged around a long, narrow corridor.

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“We are totally kicked out” from working in Tokyo, says Atelier Bow-Wow

October 25, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Portrait of Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Atelier Bow-Wow

Major development spurred on by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has greatly reduced opportunities for smaller architecture studios in the city, according to Atelier Bow-Wow. The upcoming Olympic Games has provided few opportunities for local designers and development related to the event has forced many smaller studios to look for work outside the city said Atelier

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Suppose Design Office recreates Japanese engawa inside Slack’s Tokyo outpost

October 11, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Slack Tokyo office, designed by Suppose Design Office

Suppose Design Office has reimagined traditional elements of Japanese architecture inside the Tokyo workspace of tech company Slack. Slack’s Tokyo office is located just opposite the city’s Imperial Palace gardens and has been designed by locally based Suppose Design Office to “define a new traditional atmosphere”, mixing typical Japanese aesthetics with contemporary work culture. “When

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Foster + Partners’ latest Apple Store opens in central Tokyo

September 24, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Apple Store Apple Marunouchi, Tokyo, by Foster + Partners

The latest Apple Store in Tokyo is fronted by a row of two-storey protruding windows that turn the shopfront into a series of display cabinets. Located near the Imperial Palace in the Marunouchi district of central Tokyo, the Apple Store has been deigned by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Apple’s design team. Built on

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Keiji Ashizawa Design and Norm Architects pare back Tokyo apartments

September 15, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Kinuta Terrace apartments by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa

Concrete walls, wooden floors and simplistic furnishings form “transparent” living spaces within this pair of formerly light-starved Tokyo apartments renovated by Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design  Constructed in the 1980s, the 36-unit Kinuta Terrace apartment block in Tokyo is arranged around a verdant central courtyard that’s meant to give residents the experience of living in

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SO&CO squeezes 2.7-metre-wide office block into alley in Tokyo

September 6, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Tiny Tower office by SO&CO in Tokyo, Japan

SO&CO has slotted a skinny office building into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces. The office block, named the Multi-Tenant Building in Ginza, is located on a narrow L-shaped plot on a densely-packed backstreet in one of the city’s leading shopping districts. It has a stark concrete

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Pelli Clarke Pelli reveals Japan’s tallest skyscraper

August 27, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Pelli Clarke Pelli reveals Japan's tallest skyscraper in Tokyo

Construction has begun on Japan’s tallest building, a 330-metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. The building is one of three skyscrapers being designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects for developer Mori as part of the Toranomon-Azabudai district in central Tokyo, where Heatherwick Studio is designing the public realm. Planned to be approximately 330

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Heatherwick Studio reveals designs for “gigantic planted pergola” in Tokyo

August 22, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Toranomon-Azabudai project by Heatherwick Studio

Construction has begun on the Toranomon-Azabudai district in central Tokyo, where Japan’s tallest skyscraper will sit alongside buildings and a landscaped pergola designed by Heatherwick Studio. Heatherwick Studio designed the public realm and numerous low-rise blocks for the development within the Minato ward of Tokyo based on the idea of creating a giant plant-filled pergola. “As

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One-room hotel Trunk House includes Tokyo’s tiniest disco

August 21, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Trunk House designed by Trunk Atelier and Tripster

Hotel brand Trunk worked alongside design studio Tripster to create this boutique hotel in Tokyo, which takes cues from traditional Japanese aesthetics – but unusually boasts its own miniature nightclub. Hidden away down a cobbled street in Tokyo’s buzzing Kagurazaka neighbourhood, Trunk House has been created by the hotel’s in-house design team and locally based

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Tokujin Yoshioka puts garment making on show inside Tokyo’s Homme Plissé flagship

August 6, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Homme Plissé Tokyo flagship by Tokujin Yoshioka

An industrial pleating machine is the focal point of Issey Miyake’s Homme Plissé flagship store, which has opened in Tokyo, Japan. The store is located in Tokyo’s affluent Aoyama neighbourhood and is the first flagship for Issey Miyake’s diffusion brand Homme Plissé. Launched in 2013, it exclusively produces micro-pleated items of clothing in lightweight fabrics

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