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World’s tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo

February 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world’s tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country’s highest. Sumitomo Forestry, the lumber arm of one of Japan’s largest corporations, is proposing the 70-storey hybrid timber skyscraper to mark the company’s 350th anniversary in 2041. Named W350, the ambitious

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Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo’s infrastructure

January 26, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Australian photographer Tom Blachford waited until night to capture these neon-tinted photographs of Tokyo’s metabolist buildings, which he says could have been built in a “distant future”. For his latest series, Blachford was influenced by the futuristic appearance of the country’s post-war modernist architectural movement, metabolism – pioneered by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The Pritzker

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Blade Runner-style photographs capture Tokyo’s infrastructure

January 26, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Australian photographer Tom Blachford waited until night to capture these neon-tinted photographs of Tokyo’s metabolist buildings, which he says could have been built in a “distant future”. For his latest series, Blachford was influenced by the futuristic appearance of the country’s post-war modernist architectural movement, metabolism – pioneered by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. The Pritzker

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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects

January 23, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Jo Nagasaka’s architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. Schemata Architects changed everything inside the eight-storey Shibuya hotel, except the capsules themselves. The result is an interior that combines contemporary, pared-back finishes with retro details. The project was commissioned by Nine Hours, a hotel

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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects

January 23, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Jo Nagasaka’s architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. Schemata Architects changed everything inside the eight-storey Shibuya hotel, except the capsules themselves. The result is an interior that combines contemporary, pared-back finishes with retro details. The project was commissioned by Nine Hours, a hotel

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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects

January 23, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Jo Nagasaka’s architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. Schemata Architects changed everything inside the eight-storey Shibuya hotel, except the capsules themselves. The result is an interior that combines contemporary, pared-back finishes with retro details. The project was commissioned by Nine Hours, a hotel

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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo gets contemporary makeover by Schemata Architects

January 23, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Jo Nagasaka’s architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. Schemata Architects changed everything inside the eight-storey Shibuya hotel, except the capsules themselves. The result is an interior that combines contemporary, pared-back finishes with retro details. The project was commissioned by Nine Hours, a hotel

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Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects divides up tiny Tokyo apartment with sliding screens

December 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has renovated a room inside a reinforced-concrete building in Tokyo to create a 34-square-metre studio apartment that can be divided up with sliding wooden screens.  Located in a residential area of Tokyo between Shibuya and Daikanyama, the small apartment is separated into two parts by a series of sliding zigzag-patterned screens. One side of the apartment

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Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects divides up tiny Tokyo apartment with sliding screens

December 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has renovated a room inside a reinforced-concrete building in Tokyo to create a 34-square-metre studio apartment that can be divided up with sliding wooden screens.  Located in a residential area of Tokyo between Shibuya and Daikanyama, the small apartment is separated into two parts by a series of sliding zigzag-patterned screens. One side of the apartment

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Snark Architectures borrows cabin aesthetic for apartment renovation near Mount Takao

November 14, 2017 Alice Finney 0

Japanese studio Snark Architectures has renovated an apartment at the base of a mountain outside Tokyo, taking cues from the design of traditional cabins to create a wood-lined home for a couple who enjoy climbing and trekking. The apartment is located in a condominium in the suburban town of Chofu, and is aptly named House in Chofu. The

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