Japan
Yusuke Seki creates stripped-back coffee shop with raw concrete walls in Kobe
Kenzo Tange’s lost house is showpiece of Japan in Architecture exhibition at Mori Art Museum
Suppose Design Office creates 21st-century take on traditional Japanese doma
Akihisa Hirata stacks concrete boxes to create “futuristic and savage” Tree-ness House
Interlocking indoor and outdoor levels bring Japanese house close to nature
Studio Ghibli reveals visualisations for new theme park in Japan
Maruni unveils latest collaborations with Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison
House-shaped windows puncture perforated metal facades of Yokohama nursery
Platforms function as tables and shelves inside Tato Architects’ House in Miyamoto
World’s tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo
Deceptively industrial facade conceals bright contemporary home in Japan
Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo’s infrastructure
Trunk Hotel is “a completely new concept for Tokyo” says creative director
Ryuji Kajino converts simple shed into studio for flower craft
Ryuichi Ashizawa uses traditional techniques to control climate at house on Okinawa Island
Suzuki Architects combines a home and shop at Gré Square House
Timber volumes form live-work spaces for artist and architect in rural Japan
Kengo Kuma designs Japan’s first Ace Hotel
Naoto Fukasawa inserts Issey Miyake store into 132-year-old Kyoto townhouse
Nendo designs cheesecake in the style of a snowy Japanese landscape
Schemata Architects adds sequence of plywood boxes to redefine spaces inside House in Nobeoka
Japan protests inclusion of disputed islands on Korea’s unified Olympic flag
Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects