Projects
Shenpei Ha - YTAA Shortlist
Borrowed Scenery: Miyato Salt Farm Onsen
Tohoku
Tracing back the past vernacular "Set in the Tsunami struck area of Tohoku - Japan. A salt terrace farm/...
aat + makoto yokomizo architects
Tomihiro Art Museum
Gunma, 2005
Museum that consists of 33 various size cylinders. Flexibility & strength, abstract-ness & concreteness, simplicity & com-ple...
aat + makoto yokomizo architects
Kurenbo
Tokyo, 2006
Gallery for photograph which is extended to buddhist temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo. The verge on the wall, the ceiling, and the floor was l...
1100 Architect
Naha City Gallery and Apartment House
Naha Fukotoshin, 2003
The Naha City Gallery and Apartment House includes a gallery, retail space, three full-floor apartments, and a subterranean parking garag...
Waro Kishi + K.Associates
Memorial Hall in Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi, 1997
This building is for the medical faculty of Yamaguchi University. It commemorates the 50th anniversary of the institution and was donated...
senbunnoichi
YOROZU GALLERY
Tokyo, 2013
A project for a contemporary art gallery in Ginza, Tokyo. The following three requirements were set to do justice to a gallery lo...
Rafael Viñoly Architects
Tokyo International Forum
Tokyo, 1996
In 1989, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government organized an anonymous international competition to design a major new civic complex that woul...
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG)
MIHO MUSEUM
Shiga, 1997
Lighting design for a new museum in collaboration with FMS New York. A beautifully executed architectural work and has rec...
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG)
Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center ゛GRANSHIP゛
Shizuoka, 1998
Lighting design for a new cultural center. This is the largest project ever to be done by Japan’s great architect, A...
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG)
Sagawa Art Museum
Shiga, 1998
Lighting design for a new museum. This beautiful museum houses two great existing Japanese artists, Ikuo Hirayama and Chur...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
Tokyo, 2012
In the corner premise of just 326㎡ across Kaminari-mon Gate, the building was required to accommodate plural programs such as tourist inf...
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Vertical Omotesando
Tokyo
Omotesando Street is recognized nowadays as a powerhouse in the world of fashion. Its particular urban fabric is famous for its conglomer...
META-Project
“Mirror to Mirage” - Omotesando Street Fashion…
Tokyo, 2010
Fashion, quite often is about the tension between showing and hiding. Tokyo is a city full of encounters and events. We are interested in...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
Kochi, 2010
We adopted a unique cantilever bridge design for this structure, a traditional technique that has been forgotten in Japan. The structure ...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Prostho Museum Research Center
Aichi, 2010
Design of this structure consisted of taking on the challenge of creating a medium scale wood structure built by combining small sections...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Shimonoseki-shi Kawatana Onsen Koryu Center
Yamaguchi, 2009
This organic building is located on a site surrounded by mountains, and has a shape like that of a mountain in order to achieve harmony b...
Igarashi Design Studio / Hisae Igarashi
Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sotsass Exhibition
Tokyo, 2011
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
Shigeru Ban Architects
Nomadic Museum
Tokyo/LA/NY, 2005
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los Angeles in 2006. The site in Sant...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Suntory Museum of Art
Tokyo, 2007
This entire building is covered with vertical louvers made of white ceramic panels. We chose this material based on the image of earthenw...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Nezu Museum
Tokyo, 2009
For this renewal of a historic museum in Tokyo, we attempted to conceive of the museum as an urban design rather than just an individual ...
H2O Design Associates
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo, 2007
Opened in 1966 as a museum open to the public, the Idemitsu Museum of Arts has a long and respected history in Japan. It houses the art c...
Shigeru Ban Architects
Paper Art Museum
Shizuoka, 2002
PAM A is the private museum of a paper manufacturer. All facades are composed of Fiberglass Reinforced Panels. The square floor pla...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Chokkura Plaza
Tochigi, 2006
A project to create a new station plaza that would play a leading role in the community activities, centered round an old storehouse, an ...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
Nagasaki, 2005
This museum is located in Nagasaki, the only port that remained open to international trade throughout the Edo period, when Japan was clo...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art
Tochigi, 2000
This museum is dedicated to the works of the famous Ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige Ando. The design represents an attempt to materialize in arc...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Stone Museum
Tochigi, 2000
The Stone Museum reuses 80-year-old stone buildings that were utilized to store rice as display space for arts and crafts made from...