UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a snaking hotel for hospitality brand Not A Hotel, which will perch above a coastal site in Okinawa, Japan. More about Zaha Hadid Architects designs hotel to wind around Okinawa beach
A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studios Permanent and Atelier Nagara. More about Soaring metal roof tops rural Japanese office by Permanent and Atelier Nagara
The Grand Ring in Osaka will be mostly turned into firewood, its architect Sou Fujimoto has told Dezeen. More about Most of world's largest wooden structure The Grand Ring to be burned as "chips for fuel"
A myriad of tactile products made from materials including ceramic, lacquer and wood have been displayed at Japan House London as part of the Hyakkō exhibition, which examines Japan's contemporary craft landscape. More about Hyakkō exhibition explores "countless forms of making" in Japanese crafts
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
Architecture studio Keiji Ashizawa Design looked to Osaka Castle's triangular forms and the shape of the city's Tsutenkaku Tower when designing the latest Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Osaka, Japan. More about Osaka Castle's Golden Tea Room informs interiors of Blue Bottle Coffee Shinsaibashi
Junya Ishigami is one of three Japanese architects to have designed sculptural, mobile kiosks for the Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition 2025, currently taking place in Fukuyama, Japan. More about Junya Ishigami places cloud-like kiosk "on the verge of falling over" in Fukuyama
Japanese design firm Studio Aluc "deliberately retained traces of past craftsmanship" to transform a historic machiya residence into a short-stay hotel in Kyoto. More about Studio Aluc turns 100-year old Kyoto townhouse into hotel
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
A traditional Japanese cladding method informed the overlapping wooden panels used to display knives at Tojiro Knife Gallery in Osaka, Japan, designed by creative agency L/O. More about L/O designs Osaka shop to "celebrate artistry and utility" of Japanese knives
A fifty-metre-long skylight cuts through the centre of Kitaoka Group Head Office Building, renovated by Tokyo studio Wataru Architects in Mima City, Japan. More about Fifty-metre-long skylight spans length of Kitaoka Group headquarters in Japan
Interiors firm UNC Studio has transformed a traditional wooden house in Kyoto into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe and eatery with a bold, all-red interior. More about Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Mexican and Japanese design
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
Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has used translucent glass panels to create a flowing exterior for Tiffany & Co's flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. More about Jun Aoki cloaks Tiffany & Co store in curving glass panels
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron showcased stools that sit at the "crossroad between analogue and digital", as well as floor lamps and books at the SKWAT art centre for design event Capsule Plaza Tokyo. More about Herzog & de Meuron creates reading spaces with own furniture at Tokyo art centre
The annual Designart Tokyo festival featured a huge variety of designs from a steel tea room to a rocket-fuel-tank speaker. Here, Cajsa Carlson selects six of the best from this year's event. More about Six of the most exciting projects at Designart Tokyo 2025
Two sculptural metal speakers made from a disused rocket fuel tank to reference the debris "floating in outer space" have been unveiled at this year's Designart Tokyo. More about Nomura and &Space Project launch Debris speakers made from space rocket fuel tank
Architecture studio SANAA's co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. More about Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that "show how cities and buildings grow together"
Shiny aluminium, washi paper details and a reflective ceiling decorate this colour-saturated lounge in Tokyo, which local studio I IN designed for department store Matsuya Ginza. More about I IN uses glossy surfaces and Edo purple to create "new form of Japanese luxury" for Ginza Lounge