Yusuke Seki creates stripped-back coffee shop with raw concrete walls in Kobe
Located in a former barber shop, the stripped back Voice of Coffee in Kobe, Japan, features exposed wooden beams and unfinished breeze block walls. More
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Skylights and slatted floors bring daylight into 2.5-metre-wide house in Japan
Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has completed an exceptionally narrow timber house in Kobe, featuring an atrium that allows daylight to reach each of its levels. More
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House in Mikage by Sides Core contrasts white surfaces with exposed wooden beams
Osaka studio Sides Core has created a house in Kobe, conceived as a series of simple wooden containers (+ slideshow). More
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Wide sloping roof shelters plywood-filled house in Kobe by Tomohiro Hata
Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata gave this ridged metal residence in Kobe a staggered plywood interior and a broad pitched roof that follows the sloping terrain (+ slideshow). More
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Takeno Nursery by Suga Architects Office hides a two-storey garden behind its wooden walls
This kindergarten was designed by Suga Architects Office to make the most of a hemmed-in city plot and features a rooftop vegetable garden, a courtyard playground and a double-height playroom (+ slideshow). More
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Yusuke Seki's second kimono store pairs patterned fabrics with raw materials
Japanese designer Yusuke Seki has completed a second shop for modern kimono brand Otsuka Gofukuten, juxtaposing the garment with concrete surfaces and layers of green-tinged glass (+ slideshow). More
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Shintaro Fukuhara's family home has a glass facade like "a showroom"
Japanese architect Shintaro Fukuhara has completed a glass-fronted house with a steeply angled roof in Kobe, as a home for himself and his family (+ slideshow). More
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Sisii showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates is interspersed with rockeries
Holes in a wrought iron platform are filled with planted rockeries at this Kobe showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates for Japanese fashion brand Sisii (+ slideshow). More
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Hair salon with an exposed ceiling and twisting lights by Sides Core
Japanese architects Sides Core left mineral wool insulation exposed on the ceiling of this hair salon, wrapping light fixtures like vines along pipes and suspending light bulbs at different levels (+ slideshow). More
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Jeté hair salon by Sides Core
White walls are sandwiched between the exposed concrete ceiling and floor of this minimal hair salon in Kobe by Japanese designers Sides Core (+ slideshow). More
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Note et Silence by Specialnormal Inc.
A floating white box glides through this fashion boutique in Japan designed by Tokyo studio Specialnormal Inc. (+ slideshow). More
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House in Kobe by Keiichi Sugiyama
This family house with a wooden interior in Kobe, Japan is by Japanese architect Keiichi Sugiyama. More
