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HS LEXUS Installation by Tokujin Yoshika
New space installation for LEXUS new model HS was designed by Tokujin Yoshioka. As if LEXUS emanates its aura, the skin creates the world of another dimension which blurs the boundary between reality and future.Having the special optical films overlapped on one another, their transparent skin projects the images as dual portrait using refraction of light. This installation is restructured from the design for Toyota booth at Tokyo Motor Show in 2007 and creates the experience as if we are immersed in the space of Aura by laminating the special optical films.
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Kiki van Eijk: “Coup de Théâtre” for La Montre Hermès
Kiki van Eijk and Hermès started working together in 2012, when Kiki designed exceptional travelling display windows for Hermès which were initially presented at the Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam, and later travelled the world with Hermès to Milan, Vancouver, Osaka and Tokyo. Following this successful collaboration, Kiki is now invited by La Montre Hermès, the watch division of the house of Hermès, to design unexpected stage-settings for their watch collections. For La Montre Hermès, Kiki van Eijk designed a nomadic window display decor concept, drawing her inspiration from her poetic inner dream world. Each display is a miniature theatre intended to recreate a certain atmosphere; Kiki designed veritable miniaturised scenes linked to the company’s collections; Cape Cod, Dressage, Clipper, Arceau, Heure H, as well as to the precious watches. Read More…
Tokyo Apartment by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Architects Sou Fujimoto have designed this building in the center of Tokyo that looks like traditional house with sloping roofs, superimposed one above the other.Each apartment comprises two or three rooms connected over different levels by ladders and stairs both inside and outside the building.The architecture and configuration of the external staircase was created to give the impression to the resident that tEvery time he goes from a room to the another, it’s like going house to another. Read More…
House K by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects
Tokyo house by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects extension is nine metres high and less than two metres wide. The house is 1,738 square foot located in Tokyo, Japan accommodates two families who wanted to share common space. Instead of doorways, there are large openings in the walls between rooms and corridors, so that the families can communicate with one another from different parts of the house. At the mean time upper and lower frames eliminate the need for doors and make the most out of the narrow space, differentiate one room from the next as if an invisible shoji screen announces each entrance.
Long corridors on each floor of the three-storey house divide it into two uneven halves, which together contain enough rooms to accommodate two families. The slender side of the house contains kitchens, bathrooms, closets and a small bedroom, while larger bedrooms and living rooms occupy the wider half.
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‘Static Bubbles,’ Exhibition by Nendo
This year, Tokyo-based design firm nendo has celebrated its tenth anniversary by doing what nendo does best : quietly but surely going about their work. This may not sound like a way to mark a successful decade, but the fruits of nendoís labour were anything but ordinary. It is this combination of thoughtfulness and caprice, hidden within minimalism of form and an unusual attention to process and detail, that make nendo what they are, and that characterizes the new work shownat Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
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{LIVE BETWEEN} by HKS Architects
{LIVE BETWEEN} is a newly launched hotel experience for guests who enjoy the extreme. The concept seeks out urban cities to set up short term residency between existing buildings. As {LIVE BETWEEN} moves from city to city, it is designed and installed specific to its temporary inhabitance. Taking on various forms from a spider’s web to a constellation, the hotel formation is ever changing and always evolving.
e pod came with the basic amenities and some extra features that we weren’t expecting. One of our favorite features was being able to control all of the elements of the pod via an iPAD.
As I was going through testing out all the features, I came across an architectural presentation sharing plans that were a breakdown of the pod.
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The Small House by Unemori Architects
Unemori Architects were commissioned to build this home in a 112 square foot plot. Unemori decided to place the “Small House” in the center of the property, which permits plenty of light and wind to encircle the tower.
“The small house which the married couple and their child live stands at the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighboring houses is very close, I aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.
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Lik House, Tokyo, Japan by Satoru Hirota
Satoru Hirota architects have completed the ‘Lik House’, a single family dwelling within a residential area
of the business district in Tokyo, Japan. Lik House aspires to be a place of comfortable intimacy, says Satoru Hirota.
Three blocks, laid on the plot with angled trajectories, generate an irregular outdoor space that acts as a private square. The courtyard – a place for both physical and visual interaction – projects the interior into the surroundings.
People moving from one room to another feel as if they’re crossing transitional spaces. Dynamic, slender passages are only arrested by intermittent box-like elements in the interior. Despite its remarkably narrow interior, large openings give the house a sense of openness and transparency and introduce a continuous play of light and shadows.
Yoyogi Village in the Shibuya, Tokyo
Yoyogi Village in the Shibuya designed by Wonderwall and other designers is a small commercial development that aims to provide a more eco-conscious alternative to the average Tokyo mall. Yoyogi Village includes an organic Italian restaurant, Code Kurkku, and a music bar where the selection is overseen by Kobayashi and hip DJ/producer Shinichi Osawa. You’ll also find a good coffee shop, Roots & Beat Coffee, alongside a travel agency, art gallery and Urban Research fashion store specializing in ‘pre-organic’ cotton clothing.
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House NA by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Tokyo-based studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has completed the House NA project, a three story family home located in a residential district of Tokyo, Japan.
The clients said they wanted to live like nomads within the house – they didn’t have specific plans for each room. The house looks radical but for the clients it seemed quite natural.”
Designed with a “stack of boxes” in mind, each room of the house offers a small, loosely defined, unique space. These room are each connected by a series of ladders and small stairs and, to get a bit of much needed privacy, can be sectioned off using curtains. Read More…
‘Illoiha Omotesando,’ Climbing Wall by Nendo Nendo
Designers Nendo have sent us some images of their climbing wal from the new Illoiha Omotesando club in Tokyo.They used mirrors, picture frames, a birdcage, and other items found on walls in a home re-purposed as climbing hand holds.
They used mirrors, frames, birdcage, and other objects of decoration that can be found in a house instead of the usual rock-shaped holds.
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Harajuku Church by Ciel Rouge Creation
The Harajuku Protestant Church, located in Tokyo, was first designed by Ciel Rouge Creation. The architecture for this Protestant Church is centered by a wide nave arranged with six arches and a bell tower that symbolically lay importance on the seven elements, the seven days of creation, the seven churches of the Orient. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
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Emerging Designers Invited to Co-Create Pioneering Nightclub
Heineken Open Design Explorations Edition open for entries until August 14 invites to collaborate on a concept club for Milan Design Week 2012. Amsterdam Heineken® today opened entry to an exciting design project that invites emerging designers from New York City, São Paulo, Tokyo and Milan to become part of a creative journey to collaborate on, conceive and produce a pioneering nightclub.
Heineken Open Design Explorations Edition 1 is a unique opportunity for upcoming designers across various disciplines to become part of the design conversation. Selected designers will go on a creative adventure that will culminate in their work being fused together to create a live concept club space that will be open throughout the duration of Milan eminent design week, in April 2012, in Zona Tortona, where the international design community can experience it. Read More…
‘Inside Out’ Residence in Tokyo, Japan by Takeshi Hosaka Architect
The Inside Out House is a 637 square-foot two story home located in Katsushika, Japan. Designed by Takeshi Hosaka Architects, the project started based on the idea that humans and cats live in a same house, rather than cats living in a house designed for humans — and finally this idea brought out a concept: ‘a house inside which you feel being outside.’
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Urban Interiorites by Ali Rahim, Tiffany Dahlen & Virginia Melnyk
Opulence is the key word for Urban Interiorites, a striking restaurant, sake bar, and lounge located along the famed Tokyo shopping strip Omotesando in the hip and trendy Harajuku neighborhood. The urban night club responds to the vibrant and eclectic youth culture of Harajuku and balances the high end fashion of Omontesando. The urban club consists of a large meet and greet entry area, sushi restaurant, sake bar, music lounge and two VIP lounges; Pockets of unique intensities are held within a white framework, creating zones of spatiality, framework and are embedded within it.
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Rainbow Millefeuille Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture
Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Tokyo-based french architect Emmanuelle Moureaux.By night each of the twelve colour bands of the Sugamo Shinkin Bank are brightly illuminated. Inside, an ellipsoid-shaped open ceiling allows natural light to spill into the lobby from skylights on the third floor. The light is carried through clear curved glass tubes that pass through the floors and ceilings into the central atrium.
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“Nowhere But Sajima,” House in Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura
“Nowhere but Sajima House” by Japanese architect Yasutaka Yoshimura is a vacation residence located at 1 hour from Tokyo. Its facade is characterized by eclectic variations of openings and large windows which provide view to Mount Fuji and to the peninsula Enoshima. The side facing towards the ocean is the northern area, and a road with a row of condominiums and heavy traffic run by its side. while the large building aperture enables an open view to the ocean, it also draws all the attention from the road and condominiums.
Kanebo Sensai Select Spa by Curiosity
Tokyo designer Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity has completed a spa in Interlaken, Switzerland, with silk panels hanging in layers from the ceiling.
The soft glow of light gently removes the outside world, layer by layer, to transform the mind and body. The waiting room in the center of the space is designed as a “cocoon”, an oasis of tranquility surrounded by serene light, where the everyday life gives way to a different dimension, leading to an unexplored sense of relaxation and well being.
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