Students from Singapore and Kyoto design objects inspired by each other's cities
Students from Singapore and Kyoto have created a series of design objects based on photographs of each other's home city. More
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Kengo Kuma designs Japan's first Ace Hotel
The Ace Hotel chain is opening its first Japanese outpost in Kyoto this winter, in a former telephone exchange building overhauled by Kengo Kuma. More
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Naoto Fukasawa inserts Issey Miyake store into 132-year-old Kyoto townhouse
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a new boutique for fashion house Issey Miyake inside one of Kyoto's historic machiya houses. More
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Nendo looks to ancient Japanese tombs for first landscape architecture project
Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has now moved into urban design, unveiling its massive CoFuFun plaza near Kyoto. More
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IM Pei's Miho Museum provides backdrop for Louis Vuitton resort 2018 show
Models emerged from a forested mountainside at this year's Louis Vuitton resort show, which took place at the Miho Museum in Japan designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei. More
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Timber frame projects into rooms and stairwell of Alphaville's compact Kyoto home
The timber structure of this house in Kyoto by Japanese studio Alphaville pokes through into the interior spaces, which were designed to optimise the dimensions of a narrow site. More
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Kyoto cheese tart shop by Yusuke Seki features counter made of Lego
The latest outlet of Japanese cheese tart shop Bake displays its wares on a Lego counter made by designer Yusuke Seki. More
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Events space opens inside revamped century-old machiya house in Kyoto
This 120-year-old Kyoto townhouse was once used as a seed plantation, but has been carefully restored to create an events venue that celebrates Japanese interior design traditions. More
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Uji House by Alts Design Office features a deliberately complex layout
Wooden crosses mark the entrances to this house in Japan, which features an intentionally complicated layout designed by Alts Design Office to create more privacy for residents (+ slideshow). More
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Golden resin highlights cracks in the floor of TANK's Xchange Apartment
Dribbles of gold fill the cracks in the floor of this Kyoto apartment, designed by architecture studio TANK to replicate a traditional Japanese pottery technique (+ slideshow). More
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Continuous staircase connects eight levels in K8 bar building by Florian Busch
German architect Florian Busch conceived this Kyoto bar as one continuous space spread over eight levels to make the most of a narrow site in one of the city's oldest nightlife areas (+ slideshow). More
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UME Architects creates home and studio for a photographer in revamped Kyoto apartment
Exposed concrete is paired with white furnishings in this two-level Kyoto property that Japanese studio UME Architects has converted into a photographer's home and atelier (+ slideshow). More
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Adam Roberts proposes stacking traditional Kyoto dwellings to create "machiya towers"
Graduate shows 2015: traditional machiya houses in the Japanese city of Kyoto are under threat from modern development, so Royal College of Art graduate Adam Roberts proposes stacking them up to make them more cost and space efficient (+ slideshow). More
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Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Ninkipen! leaves walls unfinished inside Kyoto design gallery and atelier
Smears of paint and plaster are left exposed on the walls of this design studio and gallery in Japan, which also features a breeze-block wall and an indoor garden (+ slideshow). More
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NAAD lines a century-old Japanese house with exposed plywood
Architecture studio NAAD has gutted a 100-year-old house in Kyoto and re-skinned the interior in plywood to create a temporary dwelling that is designed to look incomplete (+ slideshow). More
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Ladders lead to capsule-sized bedrooms in Koyasan Guesthouse by Alphaville
Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville, which takes its cues from capsule hotels (+ slideshow). More
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House-shaped doorways puncture Hazukashi House by Alts Design Office
Pointed doorways and openings throughout this house in Kyoto, Japan, were designed by Alts Design Office to mimic the building's gabled profile (+ slideshow). More
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Translucent fabric divides Aesop store in Kyoto by Simplicity
Sheets of translucent black material separate areas of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto by Japanese studio Simplicity (+ slideshow). More
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Aesop Kawaramachi by Torafu Architects features squid fishing lamps
Metal pipes and lightbulbs previously used on squid fishing boats are used to make a sculptural light that hangs from a double-height space in the centre of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto (+ slideshow). More
