Minami-Hayama duo by Nakae Architects
and Ohno Japan

This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. More »

This holiday home in Kanagawa, Japan, by Japanese studios Nakae Architects and Ohno Japan comprises two separate blocks fanning outwards towards Tokyo Bay. More »

This motorway service station along Route 230 in northern Japan, by architects Code, has a black, rectangular form that snakes up from the ground towards a nearby mountain. More »

Every room of this house in Japan by local architects Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates is contained in a separate block, connected by sliding doors. More »

The roof of this house in Hashimoto, Japan, by designers Yoshio Oono Architect & Associates folds around to become an exterior canopy with triangular reveals. More »

This colourful series of public toilets recently completed by Japanese architects Future Studio in Hiroshima have been designed to resemble origami cranes. More »

This small art gallery in Japan by Tokyo architects Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has a softly curved exterior shape, sliced at one end to create a wide entranceway. More »

This house in Tokyo by Japanese practice Torafu Architects creates built-in furniture through the overlapping of interior spaces. More »

This house in a mountain region outside of Tokyo by Koji Tsutsui Architect & Associates is composed of five connected cottages. More »

A stark concrete multi-purpose space occupies the ground floor of this house in Osaka by Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada. More »

Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux. More »

This house in Fukuoka, Japan, by Masao Yahagi Architects snakes across its site to give every room a little sheltered garden. More »

Japanese studio Yutaka Yoshida Architect & Associates have completed this concrete family home in Hiroshima, Japan. More »

Here’s another house in Sendai, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates (see their Edge House in our earlier story) that features a pointy overhang. More »

Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates have completed a house in Sendai, Japan, with a balcony that cantilevers half over the enclosed courtyard and half over the footpath outside. More »

Japanese studio Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a weekend house in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, where two gabled structures are separated by a walled courtyard. More »