This week, installations by Kengo Kuma and Sam Jacobs opened at LDF
This week on Dezeen, installations by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and British architect and designer Sam Jacobs opened at the V&A museum as part of the London Design Festival. As…
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Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store opens in central Tokyo
The latest Apple Store in Tokyo is fronted by a row of two-storey protruding windows that turn the shopfront into a series of display cabinets. Located near the Imperial Palace in the Marun…
Jun Mitani creates live-etched Player of the Match trophies for Rugby World Cup
Jun Mitani has designed a trophy for the Player of the Match winner of each game at the Rugby World Cup in Japan, which will be etched with real-time highlights taken from in-game commentar…
Monolithic black house conceals internal courtyard containing a single tree
Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard. The rooms are arranged in a C-shaped plan…
Keiji Ashizawa Design and Norm Architects pare back Tokyo apartments
Concrete walls, wooden floors and simplistic furnishings form "transparent" living spaces within this pair of formerly light-starved Tokyo apartments renovated by Norm Architects and K…
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 space…
Takeru Shoji Architects designs Japanese home with "live-in foundations"
Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a "live-in foundation".…
Kengo Kuma's stacked-timber Odunpazari Modern Museum opens in Turkey
The Odunpazari Modern Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, has opened its doors in Eskisehir, northwest Turkey. Odunpazari, which means firewood market in Turkish, used to be a centre …
SO&CO slots skinny office block into alley in Tokyo
SO&CO has slotted a skinny office building into an alley between two buildings in Tokyo, Japan, which contains five tiny concrete workspaces. The office block, named the Multi…
Pelli Clarke Pelli reveals Japan's tallest skyscraper
Construction has begun on Japan's tallest building, a 330-metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Planned to be approximately 330 metres high, th…