Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow). More »

Japanese designers Nendo have designed a shoe store where the shoes walk around the store on their own. More »

This Tokyo house by Japanese architects Aida Atelier comprises a cluster of four white-rendered blocks that support an elevated  fifth block above a central patio. More »

Slideshow: Japanese studios SNARK and OUVI have completed two apartment blocks in Takasaki City that look like clusters of two-storey houses. More »

This Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design has a climbing wall and ladders, in case the owners get bored of using the stairs. More »

This house in Osaka by architects Suga Atelier has a faceted concrete exterior that looks like a rockface. More »

All the rooms of this renovated Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design are connected to a wooden box at its centre. More »

The floor of the dining room becomes a worktop for the kitchen inside this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Urban Architecture Office (UAo). More »

This Tokyo house by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has hardly any walls and looks like scaffolding (photos by Iwan Baan). More »

Japanese architects Ninkipen! have planted a tree at the centre of this hair salon in Kadoma and surrounded it with mirrored A-frames. More »

Beyond the arched entrance of this metal-clad house in Kadoma, Japan by architect Takeshi Hamada is a corner light well surrounded by windows and balconies. More »

The huge tiled roof that wraps around this Tokyo house integrates arched windows and openings for tree branches. More »

Steel crossbeams divide the triple-height living room of this Tokyo townhouse into modular sections. More »

Slideshow: the cantilevered upper storeys of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shogo Iwata hover above a driveway. More »