Japan
Rooms are less than two metres wide inside Tokyo house by YUUA Architects
Saito House in Tokyo features herringbone flooring and an exposed wooden structure
Richard Rogers steps in to defend Zaha Hadid’s scrapped Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium
Arched openings cut through walls of Takushu Arai’s steel-plated house in Yokohama
Log Rhythm house revives old Japanese building technique using steel beams instead of wood
Yoshiyasu Mizuno creates raw concrete office block for fish-processing plant
Noma Bar’s bird-shaped treehouse provides a vantage point over a Japanese woodland
Adam Roberts proposes stacking traditional Kyoto dwellings to create “machiya towers”
Tokyo No Ie: Jérémie Souteyrat documents Tokyo’s contemporary houses
Japan scraps Zaha Hadid’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium
Kakko House by Yoshihiro Yamamoto is a 3.4-metre-wide home in Japan
House-shaped clinic designed by Hkl Studio to make elderly patients feel more at home
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Memorials by Beomki Lee would pay tribute to victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami
Nobuo Araki creates simple house with overhanging eaves on Japan’s largest plain
Rainbow hues are cast onto the walls of Kubo Tshushima’s Tokyo wedding chapel
Nord house by Apollo Architects boasts a spacious loft room for children to play in
Apollo Architects creates spaces for artwork and cars in raw concrete Grigio house
Zaha Hadid says Japan ignored warnings over Olympic stadium construction costs
Yusuke Seki uses 25,000 pieces of crockery to raise the floor of a ceramics shop
Nikken Space Design’s office in Osaka features a bleacher-style bookcase
MAMM Design adds curved walls and different-shaped doorways to a Japanese apartment
Tokujin Yoshioka uses millions of straws to recreate Tornado installation in Japan
Fly Out House balances on a concrete wall to avoid overlooking a busy road
