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  • Tranquil House by FORM Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Kouichi Kimura builds fortress-like Tranquil House in Japan

    Japanese architect Kouichi Kimura has completed a concrete house in Shiga, Japan, as a self-contained space that promotes serenity and silence. More

    Semi Han | 28 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Kyomachi House by Hearth Architects

    Hearth Architects completes family house in Shiga with tree-planted atrium

    This family house in Japan's Shiga prefecture was designed by local studio Hearth Architects around an indoor garden, which is planted with a tree that extends towards a skylight. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 25 September 2017 | 6 comments
  • Kouichi Kimura completes steel-wrapped home and studio for photographer in Shiga

    Sheets of corrugated steel envelop the upper storey of this house and studio for a photographer in Japan's Shiga prefecture, which was designed by Kouichi Kimura to feature an interior that makes dramatic play of light and shadow. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 1 September 2017 | 1 comment
  • Maibara House by Alts Design Office combines a windowless block and a small garden pavilion

    This family house in Shiga, Japan, is made up of two structures – a simple two-storey block set on a patio, and a small timber pavilion that opens out to a landscaped garden (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 1 December 2015 | 1 comment
  • House in Shigaraki by Junichi Kato

    Junichi Kato clads House in Shigaraki in dark brown-coated steel

    The wooden frame of this two-storey family home in Japan's Shiga Prefecture is disguised by a layer of ridged steel panels (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 7 September 2015 | 2 comments
  • Courtyard House by FORM

    Kouichi Kimura's Courtyard House wraps around a private terrace

    Sandwiched between a shrine entrance and a farm in Japan's Shiga Prefecture, this family residence by Japanese architect Kouichi Kimura comprises metal-clad blocks that frame a courtyard (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 15 June 2015 | 1 comment
  • Floating House by Satoru Hirota Architects

    Satoru Hirota Architects creates a "floating" home and gallery for an embroidery artist

    A long, horizontal block is hoisted above the ground on a collection of concrete pods, providing views of paddy fields and mountains for the home, gallery and studio of an embroidery artist in Japan's Shiga Prefecture (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 2 June 2015 | 1 comment
  • Complex M by Kouichi Kimura

    Live-work block in Japan by Kouichi Kimura features a steel-plated facade

    Japanese architect Kouichi Kimura chose grey steel sheets for the exterior of this office and apartment building in Shiga, giving it an armoured appearance (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 12 May 2015 | 3 comments
  • Framing House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Kouichi Kimura's Framing House combines a home and a gallery

    This Japanese family home by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects is arranged as a series of framed spaces, with the ground floor dominated by an art gallery and workspace (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 28 April 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Cozy House by Form/Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Kouichi Kimura's Cozy House is a family home in a busy Japanese neighbourhood

    This grey-rendered house was designed with strategically placed windows to create privacy for residents in a densely populated area of Japan (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 31 March 2015 | 7 comments
  • Skyhole by Aphaville

    House and art studio by Alphaville features a diamond-shaped plan and a pointed roof

    A wooden spine extends beneath the diagonally pitched roof of this diamond-shaped house and artist's studio in Japan (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 4 March 2015 | 3 comments
  • Park and House by Tsuyoshi Kawata

    Curving walls eclipse glazed facade of park-side house in Japan by Tsuyoshi Kawata

    Both curving and straight walls overlap inside this family home in Shiga Prefecture by architect Tsuyoshi Kawata, which was designed to frame views of a nearby park (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 9 February 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Scape House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Kouichi Kimura's Scape House uses a variety of windows to create a hierarchy of views

    A collection of differently sized cuboids make up the volume of this family house in Shiga, Japan, designed by architect Kouichi Kimura to offer "versatile spaces" with "light and scenery" (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 7 October 2014 | 6 comments
  • Minakuchi House by Alts Design Office

    Projecting terrace intersects Minakuchi House by Alts Design Office

    A cantilevered box containing a wood-lined terrace extends from the vertical core of this house in the Japanese prefecture of Shiga by local architects Alts Design Office (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 28 May 2014 | 1 comment
  • N House by TOFU

    N House by TOFU

    This cedar-panelled box in Shiga, Japan, is a family house by Japanese studio TOFU architects. More

    Catherine Warmann | 1 February 2011 | 5 comments
  • Hiedaira House by Thomas Daniell Studio

    Hiedaira House by Thomas Daniell Studio

    This concrete house in Hiedaira, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, by Kyoto firm Thomas Daniell Studio, is located next door to the house and studio we published on Dezeen last week (see our earlier story here). More

    Catherine Warmann | 30 January 2011 | 16 comments
  • House in Hieidaira by Tato Architects

    House in Hieidaira by Tato Architects

    Wooden steps lead to an attic with irregular sloping walls in this residence for an artist in Shiga, Japan, by Japanese studio Tato Architects. More

    Catherine Warmann | 20 January 2011 | 13 comments
  • Gable House by FORM Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Gable House by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

    An adjacent busy road is screened from this house by Japanese firm FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects, hidden behind a wall suspended over the terrace edge to line up with the boundary wall. More

    Rose Etherington | 11 January 2011 | 15 comments
  • House of Spread by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects

    Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura have completed a house in Shiga, Japan, that spreads out from a central courtyard. More

    Rose Etherington | 22 March 2010 | 15 comments
  • Horizontal House by EASTERN Design Office

    Here's another housing project with slits for windows by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office, this time in Shiga, Japan. More

    Rose Etherington | 15 October 2009 | 10 comments
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