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This "Hovering Cabin" is located at an altitude of 1300 meters in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The site of "Hovering Cabin" is the garden of "Pettanco House 2", which was completed in 2018. The client is also a landscape designer, and the building is used as a "small local community center and his office".
Project name
Hovering Cabin
Architecture firm
Yuji Tanabe Architects Ltd.
Location
Chino, Nagano, Japan
Photography
Yuji Tanabe
“mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a renovation of a 100-year-old old house, the birthplace of the founder and also a factory of a Toyama-based company manufacturing and selling medicine in a traditional Toyama style.
Project name
Mokkado
Location
2643-1 Kurokawashin, Imizu-City, Toyama-Pref, Japan
Photography
Satoshi Asakawa
led by Yoshihito Katata, was responsible for the store design of the first directly-operated store in the Kansai region for Tojiro Co., Ltd., a knife manufacturer based in Tsubame City, Niigata, Japan, led by President Susumu Fujita.
Project name
Tojiro Knife Gallery Osaka
Architecture firm
Katata Yoshihito Design
Location
Osaka, Japan
Photography
Masaaki Inoue
While eyewear brands continue to open roadside stores, this store was planned as a new model rooted in the community. The site faces the main road along the shores of Lake Biwa, giving it an overwhelming sense of scale, and is located in a corner of the parking lot of a large commercial facility.
Project name
JINS Hikone Store
Architecture firm
Tadashi Hirai Design Studio
Location
Shiga, Japan
Photography
Daichi Ano
This condominium is set to be constructed facing the Honmyo River, a first-class river and waterside space. Across the river lies Isahaya Park, home to the Megane Bridge, an important cultural property. Nearby, the Keigan Temple, established in 1605, indicates the region's rich historical context.
Project name
HORIZONS in Nagasaki
Architecture firm
SAKO Architects
Location
Nagasaki, Japan
Photography
Yousuke Harigane
The site is a 3-minute walk from the subway station, and the front 5.5-meter road connects to the main street. The multi- tenant building is inserted into a row of residential buildings.
Project name
LATTICE in Fukuoka
Architecture firm
SAKO Architects
Location
Fukuoka, Japan
Photography
Yousuke Harigane
A hilly area in Chonan-machi located in the center of the Boso Peninsula. This is a one-story villa with a spacious outdoor living room and pool, located on a vast site surrounded by forest. The client's family living in Tokyo started planning a villa as a base to spend weekends on the Boso Peninsula, which is rich in nature, and enjoy their favori...
Project name
Villa in Chonan
Architecture firm
TAPO Tomioka Architectural Planning Office
Location
Chonan-Machi, Chosei-Gun, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Photography
Ishii Atelier Masayoshi Ishii