Keiji Ashizawa transforms 120-year-old townhouse into rental home
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original…
Furniture as Architecture: Micro-Modernisms Inside the Home
70 Years of Unite d’Habitation/Le Corbusier. Image © Paul Clemence Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or…
Traditional townhouses inform interiors of Capella Kyoto hotel
The unique “rhythm and progression” of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this…
Takashi Homma on His Photobook Philosophy
Takashi Homma made his name photographing street style in 1990s Tokyo, during Japan’s so-called Lost Decade. Since then,…
Yokohama ferry terminal “first major” parametric building
Continuing our parametricism series, we look at the futuristic Yokohama International Port Terminal designed by Foreign Office Architects,…
OMA / Shohei Shigematsu Completes First Public Project in Japan at Newly Renovated Edo-Tokyo Museum
OMA | Edo-Tokyo Museum. Image © Vincent Hecht Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1041285/oma-shohei-shigematsu-completes-first-public-project-in-japan-at-newly-renovated-edo-tokyo-museum The…
Deep-Sea Cameras Off Japan Film Mysterious Floating Creature Scientists Can’t Identify
This ghostly organism was found at the bottom of the Ryukyu Trench and scientists are baffled by what…
Asia races to de-risk critical minerals supply chain with new financing tool
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a new financing facility aimed at strengthening critical mineral supply chains…
Open Questions | Bai Chongen on China’s new economic paradigm and closing the US tech gap
Bai Chongen is a prominent Chinese economist and government adviser. He is the dean of Tsinghua University’s School…
South Korea introduces relief payments amid oil crisis
South Korea has added relief payments to its sweep of measures to tackle the ongoing oil crisis as…
Japan survey finds sexual abuse at 15% of hospitals. Is the true scale higher?
More than 15 per cent of hospitals and long-term medical care facilities across Japan have recorded cases of…
Rassie Erasmus weighs in after Eddie Jones slams Ireland and World Rugby
Eddie Jones has received the backing of Springboks boss Rassie Erasmus with the Japan head coach praised for…