Nintendo's former HQ to reopen as hotel designed by Tadao Ando
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has transformed a building that was once home to video game giant Nintendo into a boutique hotel. More
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Kengo Kuma creates pavilion supported by live bamboo at Kyoto temple
Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has built a pavilion with a textile roof supported by bamboo stalks on the grounds of a temple in Kyoto, Japan. More
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Fumihiko Sano Studio converts Japanese minka into guesthouse and restaurant
Japanese practice Fumihiko Sano Studio has incorporated local craft and traditional materials into the Hishiya restaurant and guesthouse in Fukichiyama, Kyoto, which occupies a renovated 20th-century folk house, or minka. More
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Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
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
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Freitag store in Kyoto is designed to resemble the brand's own warehouse
Hazard lines and metal shelving are some of the industrial finishes that Torafu Architects has included in bag brand Freitag's store in Kyoto – which even includes its own workshop. More
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Century-old Japanese dwelling transformed into minimalist guesthouse
Japanese architect Uoya Shigenori stripped back and reconfigured this 100-year-old townhouse in Kyoto to create moody and tranquil interiors for Maana Kamo guesthouse. More
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Kyoto Station designed as "geographical valley" says video blogger Martin van der Linden
Hiroshi Hara's monumental Kyoto Station features in the latest short movie by architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden, as part of his contribution to Virtual Design Festival. More
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Ace Hotel Kyoto reveals interiors designed by Kengo Kuma and Commune
Ace Hotel has revealed the first photos of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based design studio Commune. More
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Fumihiko Sano Studio creates cedar-lined chocolate cafe in Kyoto
Fumihiko Sano Studio has created a cafe and shop for San Francisco chocolatier Dandelion Chocolate, which occupies a century-old house in Kyoto, Japan. More
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Pop-up pavilions for kissing and "dangerous play" draw attention to rules of privately-owned public spaces
Tato Architects and Dot Architects are among six studios that created pop-up pavilions at the Kyoto Art Center to examine the various prohibitions that apply to privately-owned public spaces in Japan. More
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Glass-fronted bathroom takes centre stage in Kyoto home
Architecture studio 07Beach has placed a bathroom alongside a central courtyard at the centre of this house in Kyoto to give the clients the feeling of "open-air bathing" in their own home. More
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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
