Tokyo's Nagatachō Apartment is designed to be a "visual feast"
A bubblegum-pink kitchen and stripey watermelon-green floor are some of the features inside this Tokyo apartment, which designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has completed in a sugar-sweet co…
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Photos reveal Shigeru Ban's Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan
An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban's gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. It is one of two buildings that form the Taina…
Atelier Kento Eto designs minimal black house hiding lofty interiors
A house in Japan by Atelier Kento Eto is clad entirely in black corrugated metal with sliding doors that reveal a double-height hall with white walls. Atelier Kento Eto put a lofty hall at …
Rei Kawakubo designs costumes for Vienna State Opera
Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo has created the costumes for a Vienna State Opera production of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The costumes for the production, which premiered on 8 Decem…
Anna Piasek makes bento-style boxes for takeaway food from moulded cellulose
ÉCAL graduate Anna Piasek has created modular takeaway food packaging that can be divided like a bento box and composted after use. "An East Asian meal often consists of a variety of dishes…
Flat in Barbican's Shakespeare Tower is infused with Japanese details
A client's strong ties to Japan informed the interiors of this Barbican apartment, which has been overhauled by Takero Shimazaki Architects. The apartment is within Shakespeare Tower, one o…
Unpaid interns are "used and abused" by Japanese architects says Cameron Sinclair
Unpaid architecture interns in Japan are exploited by their employers, according to humanitarian architecture pioneer Cameron Sinclair. Sinclair made the comment in response to a tweet from Deze…
Izumi's latest Copenhagen restaurant is designed to reflect its Nordic-Japanese menu
Pan-Projects and Mok Architects drew upon Nordic and Japanese aesthetics to design this restaurant in Copenhagen, which features oak surfaces, translucent screens and paper lanterns. Izumi …
Nendo's Cubic Clock only reveals "its true form" twice per day
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a fractional, boxy clock with hands that completes its square form just twice per day. The Cubic Clock takes the form of a solid, brushed-aluminium cube t…
Kengo Kuma designs his first ever trainer for Asics
For his first footwear design, architect Kengo Kuma has created a trainer in collaboration with Japanese sports brand Asics that draws on the craft of bamboo knitting. "Originally, Japanese…