Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel, is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT. More about Not a Hotel to open Not a Museum at Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo ahead of demolition
Furniture brand Karimoku has opened Oyado Mas, an exhibition of furniture and accessories by its Mas label, showcased in an environment designed to resemble an inn complete with a reception and guest room. More about Karimoku turns Tokyo showroom into "imaginary Japanese inn"
Local studio I IN drew on the existing architecture when creating fashion brand Andersson Bell's flagship store in Japan, which is filled with glossy, reflective surfaces and warm red and yellow hues. More about I IN contrasts concrete architecture with bright colours in Andersson Bell Tokyo store
Trapezoidal motifs appear throughout this concrete condominium block in Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture. More about Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture uses trapezoid motifs for concrete housing in Tokyo
Architect Kenta Hirayama has designed an "unpretentious house" in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, which features a metal facade and deliberately simple gabled roof. More about Kenta Hirayama clads House in Kinuta in steel-sheet facade
Japanese studio Kenta Sano & Associates has completed a four-storey building in Tokyo that that has a glass-fronted dance studio on its lower floors and a house on top. More about Tokyo Ballet House combines ballet studio and home
Designer Keiji Ashizawa has turned a former hostel in Shintomicho, Tokyo, into Tomi Ginza, a boutique hotel with a single suite on each of its floors that was designed to fulfil a need for group accommodation in the city. More about Eight-room Tokyo hotel designed to feel like staying "at the home of a tasteful friend"
Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and curtains from a series of industrial rails that allow the entire space to be reconfigured. More about Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into reconfigurable hair salon
Fashion house Dior has revealed the Dior Bamboo Pavilion concept store in Tokyo's Daikanyama area with a facade that was designed to evoke Japanese bamboo forests. More about Dior unveils golden bamboo version of Paris HQ
Local studio Schemata Architects has renovated a store in Tokyo for perfumery brand Le Labo, featuring shelves and furniture made from the same wood used to cast the textured concrete walls. More about Schemata Architects designs Le Labo store to reflect Tokyo's urban character
Rust-red panels of corrugated steel curve around this narrow 14-room hotel in central Tokyo, designed by Kiyoaki Takeda Architects and Staple Studio to reflect the neighbourhood's longstanding culture of "alleyway gardening". More about Plants donated by local residents cover undulating facade of SOIL Nihonbashi
Japanese studio HOAA has completed House in Nakano, a timber-lined home in Tokyo that is buffered from the street by an elevated, looping metal terrace for potted plants. More about Curving metal terrace for potted plants fronts home in Tokyo by HOAA
Camper shoes are displayed on curvaceous clay-tiled blocks in this overhaul of the brand's store in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Jorge Penadés' studio. More about Penadés creates "archipelago" of tiled objects for Tokyo Camper store
South Korean designer Kwangho Lee drew on a cult anime film for his Ghost in the Shell exhibition, which features chairs in his signature knotted style made from sponge pipes and nylon ropes. More about Kwangho Lee creates anime-informed chairs from sponge pipes and nylon ropes
Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as "solving a puzzle" when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden louvres for privacy. More about Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu
Australian interiors firm BAR Studio has combined lush landscaped terraces and locally sourced materials in Tokyo's Fairmont hotel to forge a connection to its waterfront location. More about Skyscraper hotel Fairmont Tokyo "blurs boundaries between inside and out"
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed the facade for jewellery brand Cartier's Ginza store, which features swooping aluminium curves designed to evoke a wedding dress. More about Klein Dytham shapes aluminium into "silky drape of fabric" for Cartier Ginza facade
Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls. More about Ichio Matsuzawa creates "one-of-a-kind" Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass
Furniture brand Karimoku has worked with design duo Christian + Jade on an exhibition that chronicles the vast spectrum of Japanese tree species and their "profound process of ageing". More about The Age of Wood exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of timber
The inaugural edition of design show Alter in Tokyo exhibited works by 56 creatives, including "nearly invisible" window blinds and a chair covered in layers of washi paper. More about Alter exhibition aims to revive Tokyo's "increasingly homogenous" design landscape