Kashiwa Sato creates "pure white toilet" in Tokyo
Graphic designer Kashiwa Sato has built a public toilet wrapped in white aluminium louvres alongside Ebisu station in central Tokyo, Japan. More
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FORM/Kouichi Kimura creates geometric hair salon and home in Japan
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed Landscape House, a stack of intersecting cuboid forms in Shiga that combines the client's home with their hair salon business. More
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Not Architects Studio encloses terraces with metal mesh at Weather House
Screens made from metal mesh wrap around two sides of this house in Tokyo, Japan. More
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Dezeen Weekly
Dezeen Weekly
Our guide to architecture of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features our guide to the architecture of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. More
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Kengo Kuma's Japan National Stadium is the centrepiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Cedar panels clad the eaves of the 68,000-seat Japan National Stadium, which Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates designed for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. More
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Stüssy's Shibuya store interior by Perron-Roettinger draws upon the clothing brand's surfing roots
Woven grass "Tiki Totems", timber frameworks and bold geometric shapes that recall surf culture make up Los Angeles-based design studio Perron-Roettinger's latest store for clothing brand Stüssy in Tokyo. More
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Dezeen's guide to the architecture of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
As the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games kicks off, we round up the most architecturally significant venues including buildings by Japanese architects Kengo Kuma, Kenzo Tange and Fumihiko Maki. More
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Nakagin Capsule Tower to be dismantled and turned into rental accommodation and exhibits
Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower, the 20th-century metabolist landmark by architect Kisho Kurokawa, is set to be disassembled and donated to museums or turned into rental units. More
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Nigo creates "friendly" house-shaped public toilet in Tokyo
Japanese fashion designer Nigo has designed a public toilet in the shape of a small home as the latest addition to the Tokyo Toilet project. More
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BBC's Tokyo 2020 trailer "brings the Olympics into everyday Japan"
The founders of film and animation studio Factory Fifteen have revealed how they fused Japanese pop culture with sports references to develop a frenzied promo video for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. More
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I IN overhauls 80s Tokyo apartment to change perception of renovations in Japan
Reeded glass partitions, stucco walls and red walnut joinery feature in this renovation of a compact apartment in Tokyo by local studio I IN. More
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Klein Dytham Architecture creates intricate wooden shop front for Cartier
Klein Dytham Architecture has created a decorative wooden facade featuring a pattern of interlocking three-dimensional blocks that are individually illuminated at night for a Cartier store in Osaka, Japan. More
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London Design Biennale
London Design Biennale
"I see huge potential in combining the traditional with the digital" says Kuma Lab director
Traditional craft materials can be reinvented with digital technologies according to Kuma Lab co-director Toshiki Hirano, who has created a London Design Biennale installation exploring a new use for Japanese paper. More
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Keiji Ashizawa builds Blue Bottle Coffee's Tokyo outpost around volcanic-ash counter
Brick-like tiles with a volcanic ash glaze created by Formafantasma and textured concrete walls feature in this coffee shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design. More
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Unemori Architects creates "earthquake-proof" community centre in Fukushima
Architecture studio Unemori Architects has built the Sukagawa Community Center in Fukushima as part of the wider rejuvenation of the city after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. More
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Azabu Residence in Tokyo references mid-century American design and Brazilian modernism
Danish firm Norm Architects and Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design have designed a mid-century modern-informed interior for Azabu Residence in Tokyo using muted dark tones and warm natural materials. More
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Yusuke Shigeta reinvents traditional Japanese folding screen with digital animation
This one-minute video shows how artist Yusuke Shigeta has updated a traditional Japanese art form using digital modelling techniques. More
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Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects marries indoors and outdoors with Half Barn in Hashimoto
A simple gabled barn structure frames half interior, half exterior spaces in this rural Japanese home by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Japan creates exhibition from dismantled old house at Venice Architecture Biennale
Japan has sent the dismantled remains of a 65-year-old house as its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, staging an exhibition that explores the potential for material reuse. More
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Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX
Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. More
