Steel fixtures, clear PVC curtains and mirrors hung on pulleys give this Japanese hair salon by Schemata Architects the feel of an industrial warehouse. More about Schemata Architects designs Osaka hair salon to recall an industrial facility
Klein Dytham Architecture has created a decorative wooden facade featuring a pattern of interlocking three-dimensional blocks that are individually illuminated at night for a Cartier store in Osaka, Japan. More about Klein Dytham Architecture creates intricate wooden shop front for Cartier
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More about Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has completed a house near Osaka with concrete walls that separate the interior spaces and extend through walls into the garden. More about Concrete walls create "maze-like" feel inside House in Minoh-shinmachi by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Seating that resembles bars of soap and pipe-like clothing rails appear inside this Issey Miyake store in Osaka's Minamisemba neighbourhood, which was designed by Shingo Noma. More about Issey Miyake store in Osaka is splashed with water-themed details
Graphic designer Tamotsu Shimada has unveiled the logo for the Expo 2025 Osaka, which is an irregular ring of red circles that appears to include five cartoon-like eyes. More about Expo 2025 Osaka logo revealed as ring of red blobs
Japanese architecture studio Swing has built a compact, shared house for eight people in the city of Osaka, Japan. More about Swing creates co-living house in Osaka
Japanese studio Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects has attached an egg-shaped tomb to an "unconventional" house in the city of Sakai, Osaka prefecture. More about Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects incorporates egg-shaped tomb into Sakai house
Design studio Sides Core was charmed instead of challenged by the narrow floor plan of Land beauty salon in Osaka, Japan, which makes the most of its slender proportions. More about Land beauty salon is tucked in skinny slot between Osaka shops
The facade of Louis Vuitton's store in Osaka, designed by architects Jun Aoki & Associates and Peter Marino, is based on the sails of old Japanese merchant ships More about Louis Vuitton's flagship Osaka store covered in curving glass sails
A series of triangular and rectangular platforms create numerous floor levels inside this house in Osaka, Japan. More about House in Takatsuki by Tato Architects has 16 different floor levels
Louis Vuitton has opened a restaurant and cafe inside its new store in Osaka, Japan, with interiors fashioned by the brand's in-house design team. More about Sugalabo V is Louis Vuitton's first restaurant
Next in our high-tech architecture series is Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport, which was built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay. More about Renzo Piano's Kansai airport has a mile-long high-tech terminal
A multifunctional furniture unit made up of raised plywood floors and pegboard walls allows residents in this public-housing complex in Osaka to customise their apartments. More about Plywood furniture "islands" are used to customise public housing in Japan
FujiwaraMuro Architects has built a house in Osaka, Japan, which is separated from the street by two curved concrete walls. More about Arced concrete walls invite visitors into House in Konohana
Japanese architects Geneto has hollowed out a geometric void in the base of a four-metre-wide house in Osaka that doubles as a garage and communal space. More about Geneto raises skinny house in Japan above pentagonal garage hole
A geometric pattern of square-shaped rooms connected by rhombus-shaped circulation areas forms House in Hokusetsu, Osaka, by Japanese firm Tato Architects. More about House in Hokusetsu by Tato Architects is designed as a labyrinth
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects designed House in Toyonaka, Osaka, as a series of offset boxes with gaps between them that allow light and air to enter the house, while maintaining the occupants' privacy. More about House in Toyonaka embeds windows in gaps between monolithic grey boxes
Japanese studio Tato Architects designed the interior of this house in Osaka as a single room containing angular platforms that perform multiple functions and are connected by a spiralling sequence of wooden steps. More about Platforms function as tables and shelves inside Tato Architects' House in Miyamoto
The balcony play-area of this Osaka kindergarten by Hibinosekkei and Youji no Shiro provides children with an obstacle course of ramps, benches, monkey bars, and climbing nets around a tree. More about Climbing nets surround tree extending through balcony of Osaka nursery school