Akio Isshiki Architects marries old and new with Japanese home and restaurant
Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has transformed an old wooden building into a warm-toned home and public restaurant named House in Hayashisaki Matsue Beach. More
Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has transformed an old wooden building into a warm-toned home and public restaurant named House in Hayashisaki Matsue Beach. More
Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender's Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. More
Designer Keiji Ashizawa has devised the interiors of The Conran Shop Daikanyama in Tokyo, which is located inside a building by architect Fumihiko Maki and spotlights products from Japan and Asia. More
Hong Kong-based architect and interior designer André Fu has completed the first global flagship store for electronic accessory brand Casetify in Osaka, combining traditional Japanese shoji paper lanterns with bright colours. More
Fashion brand Loewe has opened a store in Osaka that, for the first time, is specifically dedicated to the repair and preservation of its leather goods. More
Local studio I IN has renovated two toilets in a Tokyo shopping centre, using lights that "propose new colours for genders" to create vivid interiors. More
Architecture studio 2m26 has used traditional Japanese carpentry to create a chicken coop built from cypress and cedar bark in the mountains surrounding Kyoto, Japan. More
Kyoto-based architecture and design studio 2m26 has created a compact, movable restaurant from locally-sourced Hinoki cypress timber. More
Two cantilevered stacked volumes of contrasting materials form Laxus, a new home designed by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates. More
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has given Dezeen an exclusive look at his design for the Expo 2025 Osaka, an undulating pavilion that will be built from paper tubes, bamboo and carbon-fibre reinforced plastic. More
Traditional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar has been used to construct this stable near Kyoto, Japan, which was designed by architecture studio 2m26 to "connect humans, horses and nature". More
A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. More
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled a public toilet that incorporates a communal hand-washing basin, as the final instalment of the Tokyo Toilet project. More
Columns made from thick wooden logs fill this office in Nagoya City, Japan, created by local studio Tomoaki Uno Architects at the base of a former apartment block. More
Traditional Japanese materials and details are fused with contemporary finishes at C4L House in Tokyo, designed by local studio Cubo Design Architects. More
Interior designer Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall has joined Dezeen Awards 2023 as a judge. Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his work. More
Challenging site constraints informed the angular shape of this concrete house named Villa MKZ, designed by Japanese studio Takeshi Hirobe Architects. More
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a staggered housing development by architect Kengo Kuma. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has added a staggered housing development, which employs construction techniques taken from dams, to a mountainous location in Japan. More
Specialist toilet designer Junko Kobayashi has created a public toilet within a series of weathering steel cylinders as her contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. More