Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south-east coast of Japan the appearance of a children's shape-sorter toy. More about Nowhere but Sajima by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a hotel in Miyazaki where guest rooms and dining areas surround a central courtyard and wedding chapel (+ slideshow). More about Garden Terrace Miyazaki by Kengo Kuma and Associates
This renovated family home in Japan by designer Yasunari Tsukada features large internal windows and a mezzanine loft, creating apertures and vantage points for looking into different rooms (+ slideshow). More about House in Takamatsu by Yasunari Tsukada
A house-shaped shop window frames the interior of this renovated beauty salon in Osaka Prefecture by Japanese office Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects. More about Folm Arts beauty salon by Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects
Japanese studio Nano Architects has inserted a sunken circular living room into a 1960s apartment in Fukuoka (+ slideshow). More about The Times Transplantation Building by Nano Architects
An opaque box appears to balance over see-through walls of glass and perforated steel at this house and pet shop in Saitama, Japan, by architecture studio Norisada Maeda Atelier (+ slideshow). More about Torus by Norisada Maeda Atelier
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma conceived this primary school in north-west Tokyo as the modern equivalent of a traditional Japanese schoolhouse with timber-clad walls (+ slideshow). More about Teikyo University Elementary School by Kengo Kuma and Associates
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has used the television-shaped icon of YouTube's logo to decorate the walls of the video website's new production studio in the Japanese capital (+ slideshow). More about YouTube Space Tokyo by Klein Dytham Architecture
A timber lattice supports shelves, worktops, lighting and mirrors down one side of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yasunari Tsukada (+ slideshow). More about end...Link beauty salon by Yasunari Tsukada
With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). More about ABC Center House by Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima
Diagonally stepped floors and ceilings divide triangular zones inside this pair of studio apartments in Tokyo by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect & Associates (+ slideshow). More about Motoazabu Apartment sYms by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect & Associates
Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. More about ST-House by PANDA
This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). More about Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates
This little house in Tokyo by Japanese studio PANDA has a triangular courtyard and an L-shaped roof terrace tucked behind its walls (+ slideshow). More about NN-House by PANDA
OMA's new Tokyo store for American accessories brand Coach is a glazed cube with a herringbone-patterned display system (+ slideshow). More about Coach Omotesando by OMA
This clinic by architect Kimitaka Aoki in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan is designed to look like a cluster of smaller buildings (+ slideshow). More about Y Clinic by Kimitaka Aoki of ARCO Architects
Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa designed this rural house in Kagawa like a sundial, with a south-facing tower that casts shadows across a grassy courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Sundial House by Hironaka Ogawa
A narrow vertical slice at one corner is the only interruption to the monolithic facade of this plain white house in Miyazaki, Japan, by Hiroshima studio Tsukano Architect Office (+ slideshow). More about House T by Tsukano Architect Office
Japanese studio General Design constructed this two-storey house in Tokyo as the prototype for a series of urban housing templates that can be replicated in any Japanese city (+ slideshow). More about Prototyping UH by General Design
Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has stripped an office in south-west Tokyo back to the concrete to create a fashion boutique that looks more like an abandoned warehouse for Japanese brand EEL (+ slideshow). More about EEL Nakameguro by Schemata Architecture Office