Hotel Jin marks the transformation of the former Ariake-so, a two-storey wooden inn dating back to 1868, into a contemporary hotel on the remote island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Hotel Jin marks the transformation of the former Ariake-so, a two-storey wooden inn dating back to 1868, into a contemporary hotel on the remote island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Eshima Factory transforms a former ironworks on Teshima Island into a cafeteria and food factory, blending adaptive reuse, sustainable design, and community revival.
A stainless steel bench by So Koizumi transforms seating into a sculptural frame for human presence inside kuppography’s Tokyo photography studio.
Wedged into an urban seam between hotels and office buildings, the Suetomi AOQ Cafe Stand occupies a footprint that is almost implausibly shallow. With barely a metre of depth to
Long Tall House by Spacespace rises from a sliver of Tokyo topography with the calm insistence of a building that understands its limits. Wedged between narrow pedestrian paths and set
HOO Cafe Kyoto, the coffee and donut shop born on Kiyomizuzaka, is preparing its second store inside a prominent Kyoto machiya in Nakagyo Ward, right at the city’s core. Rather
Just a short walk east of Daikanyama Station in Shibuya, Tokyo, a small gallery opens inside what still reads, from the street, as a traditional wooden house. Its exterior keeps
NAKAMURA KAZUNOBU DESIGN-WORKS creates a mist-like installation of 4mm Japanese cypress lines for Japanese dance in Tokyo.