Japan
Penadés creates “archipelago” of tiled objects for Tokyo Camper store
Akio Isshiki Architects clads House in Saidera in charred cedar
Sloping earthen roof tops waiting area for Japanese tea room by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten
Kwangho Lee creates anime-informed chairs from sponge pipes and nylon ropes
Skyscraper hotel Fairmont Tokyo “blurs boundaries between inside and out”
Zaha Hadid Architects designs hotel to wind around Okinawa beach
Hyakkō exhibition explores “countless forms of making” in Japanese crafts
Klein Dytham shapes aluminium into “silky drape of fabric” for Cartier Ginza facade
Junya Ishigami places cloud-like kiosk “on the verge of falling over” in Fukuyama
Studio Aluc turns 100-year old Kyoto townhouse into hotel
Fifty-metre-long skylight spans length of Kitaoka Group headquarters in Japan
Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Mexican and Japanese design
Schemata Architects reimagines machiya house with metal awnings for Uchida Shōten HQ
Klein Dytham Architecture completes community centre post-earthquake in Noroshi
Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu
Large metal roof tops off-grid home on Japanese island by Sakai Architects
Soaring metal roof tops rural Japanese office by Permanent and Atelier Nagara
Most of world’s largest wooden structure The Grand Ring to be burned as “chips for fuel”
Ichio Matsuzawa creates “one-of-a-kind” Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass
Osaka Castle’s Golden Tea Room informs interiors of Blue Bottle Coffee Shinsaibashi
The Age of Wood exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of timber
L/O designs Osaka shop to “celebrate artistry and utility” of Japanese knives
Alter exhibition aims to revive Tokyo’s “increasingly homogenous” design landscape
