Architecture studio Kuma&Elsa has renovated the top two floors of an apartment block in Japan, creating enclosures that aim to re-create the spatial conditions of a traditional Japanese engawa. More about Kuma&Elsa arranges Japanese apartments around translucent "huts"
Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and curtains from a series of industrial rails that allow the entire space to be reconfigured. More about Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into reconfigurable hair salon
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original layout and the "sense of time embedded within the building" while giving it a contemporary update. More about Keiji Ashizawa creates holiday home within historic machiya
Continuing our parametricism series, we look at the futuristic Yokohama International Port Terminal designed by Foreign Office Architects, which was one of the first high-profile parametric buildings. More about Yokohama International Port Terminal "first major" parametric building
The unique "rhythm and progression" of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this hotel in Kyoto designed by Kengo Kuma. More about Traditional wooden townhouses inform interiors of Kengo Kuma-designed Capella Kyoto hotel
This week on Dezeen, Danish studio BIG unveiled three rammed-earth villas on the remote island of Sagishima, which marks the studio's first project in Japan. More about This week BIG revealed a trio of luxury rammed-earth villas in Japan
Clerestory windows and a curved ceiling create shifting patterns of light and shadow through this timber-lined home near Tokyo, designed by local studio HYG Architects. More about HYG Architects designs Japanese home as "spatial continuum" of its surroundings
Danish studio BIG has completed its first buildings in Japan, creating a trio of rammed-earth villas on the remote island of Sagishima for hotelier Not A Hotel. More about BIG uses rammed earth to create trio of luxury villas in Japan
Fashion house Dior has revealed the Dior Bamboo Pavilion concept store in Tokyo's Daikanyama area with a facade that was designed to evoke Japanese bamboo forests. More about Dior unveils golden bamboo version of Paris HQ
Japanese studio ICADA has completed a house in Saitama, Japan, that combines inventive storage solutions with a structure of rough-sliced cedar logs. More about Live Sawn House features moving walls and a room on stilts
Tokyo studio I IN has renovated Lulla House, a holiday home overlooking the ocean in Kamakura, Japan, creating "a space where the beauty of the view becomes a collective experience". More about I IN designs light-filled Kamakura beach house to make most of ocean view
Corrugated metal cloaks the long, narrow form of An Unfinished House, a minimalist house in Japan designed by Tokyo studio Kraft Architects. More about Kraft Architects clads minimalist Japanese home with corrugated steel
Rough walls streaked with clay, soil and metal powders evoke ceramic glazes at Haniyasu House, a home in Japan renovated by local architecture studio Aatismo. More about Aatismo references ceramic glazes for streaked house extension in Japan
Local studio Schemata Architects has renovated a store in Tokyo for perfumery brand Le Labo, featuring shelves and furniture made from the same wood used to cast the textured concrete walls. More about Schemata Architects designs Le Labo store to reflect Tokyo's urban character
Design studio Akasaki & Vanhuyse has presented the Home-Home exhibition, which showcased works by 16 designers and artists in a modernist house in Chiba, Japan. More about Chiba design exhibition explores "the idea of home as both origin and destination"
Rust-red panels of corrugated steel curve around this narrow 14-room hotel in central Tokyo, designed by Kiyoaki Takeda Architects and Staple Studio to reflect the neighbourhood's longstanding culture of "alleyway gardening". More about Plants donated by local residents cover undulating facade of SOIL Nihonbashi
Japanese studio HOAA has completed House in Nakano, a timber-lined home in Tokyo that is buffered from the street by an elevated, looping metal terrace for potted plants. More about Curving metal terrace for potted plants fronts home in Tokyo by HOAA
UK studio Denizen Works has exclusively revealed its first house in Japan, which features an almost entirely blank street-facing facade. More about Denizen Works designs Japanese house with "enigmatic quality"
Camper shoes are displayed on curvaceous clay-tiled blocks in this overhaul of the brand's store in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Jorge Penadés' studio. More about Penadés creates "archipelago" of tiled objects for Tokyo Camper store
Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has used details including a floor-level window and shoji screens within this wood-clad Osaka residence that aims to "set a new standard for contemporary living". More about Akio Isshiki Architects clads House in Saidera in charred cedar