Japan
Hiroshi Nakamura’s showroom and home for a car dealer features warren-like interiors
Nendo’s Beauty Library presents organic cosmetics on bookshelves
Francis Giacobetti photographs leaping dancers wearing Issey Miyake’s pleated garments
Glass and timber rectangles create chequered facade for Tokyo house by Takeshi Shikauchi
Takehiko Nez divides up a hair salon with mirrors, translucent screens and plants
Hanazono Kindergarten designed to endure typhoons and offer outdoor play spaces
Live-work block in Japan by Kouichi Kimura features a steel-plated facade
Tato Architects updates a traditional Japanese house with a curved plywood interior
Torafu Architects uses concrete, wood and gravel to define spaces inside AKQA’s Tokyo offices
Architects Teehouse adds an angular steel-clad home to a Japanese dairy farm
Mirrors hang from cables in Japanese hair salon by Sides Core
Kouichi Kimura’s Framing House combines a home and a gallery
House of Yabugaoka has its ground floor sunken for privacy
Kouichi Kimura’s Courtyard House wraps around a private terrace
Takeno Nursery by Suga Architects Office hides a two-storey garden behind its wooden walls
Satoru Hirota Architects creates a “floating” home and gallery for an embroidery artist
MAD to drape new skin over a house “like a piece of cloth” to transform it into a nursery
Niji Architects uses steel components to build factory-like Boundary House
Suppose Design Office’s Tokyo studio mixes concrete, steel and reclaimed wood
Hiroki Tominaga Atelier uses deconstructed pallets to dress a Tokyo office in planks of timber
Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
House in Japan designed by Kazuki Moroe to respect the shrine next door
Sasaki Architecture converts Japanese disco into offices with floating walls
