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Dezeen’s top ten: Japanese projects
Dezeen's top ten: we're off to Tokyo next week for Tokyo Designers Week and to get us in the mood, here's a roundup of the most popular stories on Dezeen about Japanese architecture and design. In first place is a house in Nakana, Tokyo, built at 63.02° to the road (above) and designed by Schemata Architecture Office.
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2. A tea house made out of paper and cardboard, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
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3. Images from ©MURAKAMI, a retrospective exhibition of work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles last year.
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4. Hono light by Japanese brand Metaphys, seen at Tokyo Designers Week 2007, which is "ignited" by touching it with a magnetic match and extinguished by blowing on it.
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5. Tama Art University Library in Tokyo by Toyo Ito.
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6. Parabola House, a family home in Tokyo designed by Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Tekuto.
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7. NE apartments, a block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo designed by Japanese architects Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno.
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8. New buildings at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany by Japanese architects SANAA.
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9. A hillside studio-house in Ushimado, Japan, by Tezuka Architects.
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10. Kuro - a house in Fukui city, Japan, by architect Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.
That’s it for now; another top ten next month.
See also:
Dezeen's top ten: student projects (September 2008)
Dezeen’s top ten: interiors (August 2008)
Dezeen’s top ten: stories with most comments (June 2008)
Dezeen’s top ten: Milan 2008 (April 2008)
Dezeen’s top ten: houses (March 2008)
Dezeen’s top ten skyscrapers (February 2008)
Top ten Dezeen stories from December 2007
Most popular stories during our first twelve months