To celebrate the 12th anniversary of a Jins eyewear store, Schemata Architects has completed a renovation that involved taking a sledgehammer to the walls. More about Schemata Architects deconstructs interior of Jins eyewear shop in Japan
Theatrical lighting illuminates products inside the new black and gold Dolce & Gabbana store in Tokyo by French designer Gwenael Nicolas. More about Golden staircase sits at the centre of Curiosity's dramatic Dolce & Gabbana Aoyama store
Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Museum dedicated to architecture models opens in Japan
Japanese studio Sides Core has created a space inside a hair salon for the owner's books, art and music (+ slideshow). More about Sides Core redesigns minimal hair salon to include library
The corner appears to have been chopped off this house in Japanese city Oita, revealing a tree growing behind the building's walls (+ slideshow). More about Kenta Eto completes house with sliced-away corner in Japan
Schemata Architects and KHA Studio have transformed a space in Tokyo to create a minimal fashion boutique that is entirely visible from the street (+ slideshow). More about Schemata Architects frames Japanese boutique with gigantic display window
Japanese studio CAPD has used large wooden boxes to created rooms and mezzanine floors within a house in Tokushima Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Wooden boxes define rooms and mezzanines in Loft House by CAPD
This cluster of tent-like structures was designed by Tokyo architect Issei Suma to provide meals and accommodation to the elderly residents of a small Japanese community (+ slideshow). More about Teepee-shaped buildings by Issei Suma house community kitchen and spiral-shaped pool
Design studio Minorpoet has overhauled a 1960s apartment in Tokyo to create a simple home and workplace that has its kitchen hidden behind folding wooden doors (+ slideshow). More about Tokyo apartment by Minorpoet features kitchen hidden behind folding doors
A pointy wooden roof tops this concrete house in Tokyo, which led Apollo Architects & Associates to name the building Hat. More about Apollo Architects completes earthquake-resistant house with a hat-like roof
Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has combined industrial and citrus tones in his interior design for Bake Kitasenju, a cheese tart shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Sunset-hued counter welcomes customers at Tokyo cheese tart shop by Yota Kakuda
Chinese studio MAD has draped a "skin" of white asphalt shingles over the wooden structure of an old house in Japan's Aichi Prefecture to create a kindergarten with a curving roofline (+ slideshow). More about MAD transforms Japanese house into curvaceous kindergarten with a slide along one wall
Japanese design brand Muji has revealed the prototype for its latest prefab house, which it will test by having a competition winner move in rent-free for two years (+ movie). More about Muji to test prefab house by letting a competition winner live in it for free
Osaka studio Sides Core has created a house in Kobe, conceived as a series of simple wooden containers (+ slideshow). More about House in Mikage by Sides Core contrasts white surfaces with exposed wooden beams
Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). More about Airbnb models Tokyo office on local neighbourhoods
Wooden crosses mark the entrances to this house in Japan, which features an intentionally complicated layout designed by Alts Design Office to create more privacy for residents (+ slideshow). More about Uji House by Alts Design Office features a deliberately complex layout
A+Awards: next up in our series on winning projects from Architizer's 2016 A+Awards is a small chapel by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura, which features extreme gables and a roof covered in 21,000 aluminium shingles (+ slideshow). More about Sayama Forest Chapel by Hiroshi Nakamura is covered with hand-bent aluminium shingles
Japanese architects including Sou Fujimoto, Atelier Bow-Wow, Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban have all designed houses of the future for a Tokyo exhibition (+ movie). More about Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma and more propose future houses in House Vision exhibition
Atelier HAKO Architects has squeezed a three-storey house onto a four-metre-wide site in Tokyo, suggesting that skinny houses are still the rage in Japan (+ slideshow). More about Four-metre-wide house built in Tokyo by Atelier HAKO Architects
Translucent curtains surround a mezzanine tea room in the heart of this home, designed by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates for a retired couple in Japan's Aichi Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Tea room and veranda provide socialising space in Katsutoshi Sasaki's Wengawa House