Japanese architecture
Hibino Sekkei and Youji no Shiro’s kindergarten features house-shaped reading nooks
Kentaro Ishida adds stripy steel skin to asymmetric house in Japan
Top-heavy house by Archi LAB designed to minimise snow buildup
Roadside House by Naf Architect & Design has a driveway that doubles as a party space
House in Nara by Keiichi Sugiyama boasts a raised cedar terrace
Atelier Tekuto completes crystalline concrete home for two chemists
Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio recreates “feeling of being in a grove” inside its own office
Sanjo Hokusei Community Centre designed by Yasunari Tsukada to look like a pair of houses
Shingle-clad home by Starpilots can be split up to make way for a road expansion
Angular black walls fold around SRK home in Tokyo by ARTechnic Architects
Drive-through restaurants provide a model for Naoko Horibe’s White Rose English School
Yuji Kimura Design conceals terraces at House K behind a tall wall
Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects completes Tokyo building covered in holes
Buddhist temple in Tokyo upgraded by Satoru Hirota Architects
SYAP’s House in Yokkaichi has a roof angled upwards like the lid of an open box
Tsubasa Iwahashi completes Hyōgo house containing three types of staircase
FT Architects’ 4 Columns house features a traditional timber frame and minimal interior
Little House Big Terrace by Takuro Yamamoto Architects features an elevated yoga terrace
Tato Architects’ House in Toyonaka is divided into offset horizontal volumes
Family house in Japan designed by Tailored Design Lab to embrace its farmland setting
Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
Curving walls eclipse glazed facade of park-side house in Japan by Tsuyoshi Kawata
Makiko Tsukada’s Grass Cave House features rooftop lawns and a dark interior
