Japan
GamFratesi designs animalistic Apple Watch window display for Hermès
Edmund Sumner photographs Kenzo Tange’s “brutal classic” St Mary’s Cathedral
Hiroki Tominaga Atelier completes Japanese retirement home featuring a huge dormer window
Sasaki Architecture and Atelier O design minimal gallery space for traditional porcelain dolls
Naoto Fukasawa designs stripped-back interior for Homme Plissé Issey Miyake store
Hiroyuki Moriyama completes Tokyo apartment building with a perforated skin
Masatoshi Hirai reconfigures Tokyo flat to create a wholly shared family living space
Schemata Architects adds cake shop and library to food-photography studio
Mirrors and white walls draw light through House in Okazaki by Kazuki Moroe Architects
Fast Food Aid is a laboratory-like shop that serves vitamin supplements to junk food lovers
Twin micro homes by S Plus One are both finished in different woods
Atelier Kukka’s House U is designed to frame a nearby cherry tree in Tokyo
Alts Design Office uses arches and curves throughout Outsu House in Japan
Modelia Days apartment block in Tokyo features concrete walls and steel box windows
Roovice transforms wooden warehouse into bagel shop with see-through walls
Geneto Architects creates sight lines through square frames in Tokyo office
Alphaville’s Hikone Studio Apartments are housed in an angular concrete block
Two boxes replace walls in Kanagawa apartment by 8 Tenhachi
Gandare house by Ninkipen! has a metal skin that appears to peel up
Domino Architects divides J House with wooden storage partitions
Tetsuo Yamaji builds “a non-mass-produced house with mass-produced components”
Hitotomori completes small house with a custom-made plywood interior
John Pawson completes bright white holiday home on Japan’s Okinawa island
