In the second Models Talk film published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Japanese architect Kazuko Akamatsu explains how she used voids to create a feeling of openness at the Shibuya Stream skyscraper in Japan. More about Kazuko Akamatsu outlines Shibuya skyscraper design in video by CCA
Dezeen has teamed up with the Canadian Centre for Architecture to premiere three short films about Japanese architecture. In the first video, architect Erika Nakagawa shares her vision for a skinny residential tower in Tokyo. More about Erika Nakagawa showcases skinny tower concept in video by CCA
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has designed a collection of peaked umbrella-shaped structures that were informed by the surrounding mountains for a rest area in Japan. More about Kengo Kuma adds mountain-shaped toilets to hiking trail overlooking Mount Fuji
Architect Hiroshi Nakamura incorporated around 700 windows donated by the local community into the facades of this waste recycling facility in the town of Kamikatsu, the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration. More about Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura is built using waste materials
Japanese studio Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates has created a house in the city of Ichinomiya, Japan, with exaggerated eaves that shelter an outdoor living space and garden. More about Extended eaves shelter garden of Imaise House by Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates
A steep, timber-framed roof shelters this triangular home by Japanese practice Moriya and Partners, located on a cliff edge overlooking the sea in Yawatano, Japan. More about Moriya and Partners designs geometric villa overlooking the sea in Japan
One of the largest timber-framed roofs in the world spans 90 metres over the arena of the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, designed by Japanese practice Nikken Sekkei for the delayed 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More about Nikken Sekkei's Ariake Gymnastics Centre celebrates timber construction
Japanese studio Unemori Architects has completed a house in the city of Takaoka that is raised 70 centimetres above the ground on concrete stilts to protect it from flooding and heavy snow. More about Concrete stilts protect House in Takaoka from extreme weather
Graphic designer Kashiwa Sato has built a public toilet wrapped in white aluminium louvres alongside Ebisu station in central Tokyo, Japan. More about Kashiwa Sato creates "pure white toilet" in Tokyo
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed Landscape House, a stack of intersecting cuboid forms in Shiga that combines the client's home with their hair salon business. More about FORM/Kouichi Kimura creates geometric hair salon and home in Japan
Screens made from metal mesh wrap around two sides of this house in Tokyo, Japan. More about Not Architects Studio encloses terraces with metal mesh at Weather House
Cedar panels clad the eaves of the 68,000-seat Japan National Stadium, which Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates designed for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. More about Kengo Kuma's Japan National Stadium is the centrepiece of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
A simple gabled barn structure frames half interior, half exterior spaces in this rural Japanese home by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. More about Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects marries indoors and outdoors with Half Barn in Hashimoto
Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. More about Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX
This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More about READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More about Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a hotel in Japan designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. More about A hotel in Japan features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Sou Fujimoto Architects has renovated a hotel in Maebashi, Japan, removing the original building's internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing cabins. More about Sou Fujimoto adds giant atrium and green hill to Shiroiya Hotel
Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create "a spacious void of shadows". More about Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has built a monolithic concrete toilet alongside the Sendagaya Station near Tokyo's Olympic stadium. More about Suppose Design Office creates "floating" concrete toilet in Tokyo