Apollo Architects & Associates hides courtyard behind Cover House's metal facade
A windowless wall punctured by a giant void projects from this steel-clad Japanese house near Tokyo, creating a secret "exterior living room". More
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Apollo Architects completes earthquake-resistant house with a hat-like roof
A pointy wooden roof tops this concrete house in Tokyo, which led Apollo Architects & Associates to name the building Hat. More
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Gaze house in Japan also contains a gallery for displaying the client's art collection
Apollo Architects & Associates has completed a top-heavy building in Japan's Aichi Prefecture containing both an art gallery and a family residence (+ slideshow). More
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Ark-inspired house by Apollo Architects features a symmetrical layout
Apollo Architects & Associates named this Tokyo house after Noah's Ark because it features a symmetrical floor plan and a pointed wooden roof. More
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Nord house by Apollo Architects boasts a spacious loft room for children to play in
A spacious loft room bordered by a slender handrail is located beneath the steeply sloping wooden rafters of this Tokyo house by Apollo Architects & Associates (+ slideshow). More
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Apollo Architects creates spaces for artwork and cars in raw concrete Grigio house
This raw concrete house in Tokyo was designed by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates as a family home for a couple whose interests include contemporary art and cars (+ slideshow). More
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Wave is a surfer's house with a protruding windowless facade and a secret courtyard
This top-heavy white house in Kanagawa, Japan, was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a keen surfer and his family (+ slideshow). More
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Trellis canopy shades courtyard of Pergola house by Apollo Architects
Wooden ceiling beams extend beyond the walls of this boxy black house in Japan by Apollo Architects & Associates, creating a canopy above a secluded entrance courtyard (+ slideshow). More
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Apollo Architects specifies concrete and plastic for Frame house in Tokyo
Apollo Architects & Associates swapped timber frames for concrete and fibre-reinforced plastic to reduce the cost of building this house and studio for a fashion photographer in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
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Switch by Apollo Architects gives a new home to an 85-year-old restaurant
This narrow building in Tokyo by local studio Apollo Architects & Associates accommodates an 85-year-old restaurant within its base, while its upper floor is a residence with a cantilevered balcony (+ slideshow). More
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House with a hair salon hidden at the back by Apollo Architects & Associates
A high-end hair salon and family home are separated by a courtyard planted with a single tree in this building designed by Tokyo firm Apollo Architects & Associates in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu (+ slideshow). More
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Concrete Calm house by Apollo Architects designed to accommodate exchange students
This concrete house in Tokyo was designed by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates for a family that regularly accommodates foreign exchange students (+ slideshow). More
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Alley by Apollo Architects & Associates
Japanese studio Apollo Architects and Associates arranged the spaces of this tall, angular house in Tokyo to frame views of the nearby Skytree observation tower (+ slideshow). More
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Arrow by Apollo Architects & Associates
A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. More
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Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates
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
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Flag by Apollo Architects & Associates
This narrow house on a high street in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates features a glazed ground-floor gallery (+ slideshow). More
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Still by Apollo Architects & Associates
This house for a surgeon in Chiba, Japan, by Apollo Architects & Associates contains courtyards with elevated wooden walkways and glass walls behind its thick concrete exterior (+ slideshow). More
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Ring by Apollo Architects & Associates
Slideshow: the walls of this house in Tokyo by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates stretch outwards around a secret balcony. More
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Vista by Apollo Architects & Associates
The top floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Apollo appears to be caving in. More
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MUR by Apollo Architects & Associates
Readers have been discussing "the abundance of introverted architecture that is coming out of Japan" recently, so here's another Japanese house that blocks all views to and from the street but still draws light and air inside. More
