This is a house for a family of three, a couple and their kindergarten-age child, located about five minutes south by car from Kanoya’s city center on the Osumi Peninsula in Kagoshima Prefecture. The site is adjacent to the client’s parents’ house, and the project was to rebuild the house her grandparents used to live.
Project name
House in Kanoya
Architecture firm
Sakai Architects
Location
Kanoya City, Kagoshima, Japan
Photography
Toshihisa Ishii
Principal architect
Kazunori Sakai
Design team
Sakai Architects
Collaborators
Masahiro Suzuki
Interior design
Sakai Architects
Structural engineer
Masayuki Takata, RGB Structure
Supervision
Kazunori Sakai
Construction
Motoyasu Ninomiya, N3 Construction. Co.,Ltd
Typology
Residential › House
The Japanese architect Tadao Ando has been named as the designer of Il Teatro, a new performing arts center that will play a prominent role in Sharjah’s largest lifestyle community, Aljada. Arada, the master developer behind Aljada, has revealed the designs of Il Teatro’s striking structure, which will anchor the community’s Naseej cultural distric...
Nikken Sekkei has officially unveiled its latest project, Midori Park, located in Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai.
Photography
Nikken Sekkei
Rethinking a home through the eyes of clients who don’t speak human language. The project planned as a residence and studio of its architect is in Kamakura, a city filled with rich history and lush greenery and located about an hour from central Tokyo. In the house lives a couple in their thirties with two cats.
Project name
A Cat Tree House
Architecture firm
Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL
Photography
Lamberto Rubino
Principal architect
Tan Yamanouchi
Design team
Tan Yamanouchi
Design year
Jan. 2021 - Jul. 2022
Completion year
Jul. 2023
Structural engineer
Yamawaki Katsuhiko Architectural Engineering Design, Katsuhiko Yamawaki, Yumena Hirata
Landscape
Planting: SOLSO／ Hidenori Juna. Wood deck, fence: Iroha Zoen ／ Masashi Hisanaga, Mutsumi Hisanaga
Construction
Tokyo Kenchiku Plus／ Satoshi Nakazato, Yuta Ogura. Cooperation in finishing work: Kojima Komuten ／ Makoto Kojima, Riki Matsui
Material
Wooden framework method (Japanese traditional construction module), Concrete mat foundation
Typology
Residential › House
Leading Japanese architectural, engineering, and urban design firm, Nikken Sekkei, one of the world’s largest practices, celebrated the launch of the company’s local subsidiary and new office in Dubai Design District (D3) at a glittering reception in Dubai recently.
Photography
Dubai Design District (D3)
The site shape is almost triangular and is located between a main street and a residential area. More than half of the site faces the street. Because of its good location, the client requested a house with a space that could be used as a rental store.
Project name
Michiyama House
Architecture firm
Niko Design Studio
Principal architect
Taketo Nishikubo
Design team
Niko Design Studio
Structural engineer
Noriyuki Osajima
Construction
Kurihara Koumuten
Typology
Residential › House
In designing the headquarters building for ZOZO, the company behind fashion e-commerce site "ZOZOTOWN," the architect’s aim was to create a “regionally integrated office” that will grow with the city, based on a vision of the city itself as being an office where needs such as cafés, parks, daycares, gym facilities, and more are outsourced within th...
Project name
The Office Inspired by Woven Fabrics
Architecture firm
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Takenaka Corporation
Completion year
December 2020
Structural engineer
KAP, Takenaka Corporation
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
‘DOMA’ is a space form in traditional Japanese architecture. It is usually connected to the outdoor part of the house and is lower than the rest of the interior space. In the past, ‘DOMA’ can be used to place agricultural tools, and even used as a small workplace by the craftsmen. In modern residential buildings, ‘DOMA’ has been changed to an entry...
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi + TAKiBI
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Akihiko Tochinai, Kiyo Sato
Material
Pine, Concrete, Steel, Cork Board, Cement Siding Board, FRP
Typology
Residential › House
