Muji launches prefabricated home to encourage indoor-outdoor living
Muji has launched a single-storey prefabricated home called Yō no Ie that has a large outdoor deck to encourage indoor-outdoor living. More
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FujiwaraMuro Architects designs minimalist Japanese house to showcase owner's car
This white bunker-like house in Takamatsu, Japan, is designed by FujiwaraMuro Architects with limited openings to draw attention to the owner's sports car. More
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Takeru Shoji Architects builds tent-shaped house in Japanese village
Japanese studio Takeru Shoji Architects has completed Hara House, a village home designed to look like a tent. More
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Hilltop concrete house frames views of the sea and a shrine in Japan
Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates used corner windows for a concrete house with views of the sea and Itsukushima Shrine in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture. More
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Concrete spiral staircase disrupts linear interiors of House in Ashiya
A spiral staircase breaks the linear geometry in a Japanese house designed by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates, which is made nearly entirely of concrete. More
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Japanese house has hidden courtyards for growing fruit and drying laundry
Three internal courtyards in a timber-clad bungalow designed by Osaka-based practice Arbol in Akashi, Japan, provide space for growing food and drying clothes. More
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Gosize designs its own home studio in Japan around a minimalist pond
Japanese practice Gosize has combined an architects' studio with a house in a concrete frame with large openings around a small courtyard with a simple pond in Hyōgo, Japan. More
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Takeru Shoji Architects designs Japanese home with "live-in foundations"
Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a "live-in foundation". More
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SO&CO squeezes 2.7-metre-wide office block into alley in Tokyo
SO&CO has slotted a skinny office building into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces. More
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Tato Architects intermingles interior and exterior spaces at House in Tsukimiyama
A simple gabled form clad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects. More
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Arced concrete walls invite visitors into House in Konohana
FujiwaraMuro Architects has built a house in Osaka, Japan, which is separated from the street by two curved concrete walls. More
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Yabashi Architects slots cafe and pocket park between buildings in Kyushu
A tiered pocket-park tops this cafe in Kyushu, Japan, which Yabashi Architects has erected on the grounds of a building destroyed in an earthquake. More
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Slim white house by CAPD frames view of the sea in Japan
Japanese architecture practice CAPD have completed Umi – a simple, white house in Tokushima prefecture overlooking the sea with a large, deep-set window and terrace. More
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FORM/Kouichi Kimura designs Slender House in suburban Japan
A stack of intersecting concrete and metal cuboids combines to create this long, narrow home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. More
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Tomohiro Hata's Loop House faces inwards onto a central courtyard
Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates built Loop House around a planted central courtyard in pursuit of peace and quiet for a dense urban site in Hyogo, Japan. More
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Geneto raises skinny house in Japan above pentagonal garage hole
Japanese architects Geneto has hollowed out a geometric void in the base of a four-metre-wide house in Osaka that doubles as a garage and communal space. More
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10 bunker-like houses in Japan that offer total privacy
Japanese houses come in all shapes and sizes, but privacy is always a big concern. Here are 10 that offer their residents complete seclusion, from an angular concrete bunker to a seemingly windowless box. More
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ICADA intentionally puts holes in roof of small wooden house in Japan
Wood knotholes are typically a sign of poverty in Japanese architecture, but ICADA has used them to create a unique lighting effect in Knothole House. More
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Nendo wraps timber grid around plant-filled balconies of Japanese office
Plant-lined balconies and a grid-like facade wrap around the glass Kojimachi Terrace office in Tokyo, which Nendo has designed "to bring the outside in". More
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Takeshi Hosaka designs tiny house in Tokyo with funnel-like roofs
Architect Takeshi Hosaka has built himself a micro home in Tokyo that has a total floor area of just 19 square metres and features a pair of curved roofs. More
