Japanese houses
Hiiragi’s House is a Japanese home arranged around a courtyard and old tree
Watch Bêka & Lemoine’s movie Moriyama-San, about the owner of Ryue Nishizawa’s Moriyama House
Jun Igarashi Architects uses loophole in Japanese planning to equip Hokkaido house for snowy winters
Holiday home by Masato Sekiya cantilevers over a river bank in Nara Prefecture
Japanese house by Kouichi Kimura includes white-tiled courtyard for yoga
Chop + Archi cuts triangular lightwells into corners of house in Tokyo
Skylights and slatted floors bring daylight into 2.5-metre-wide house in Japan
Galvanised steel panels cover irregularly stacked volumes of Japanese townhouse
Edmund Sumner reveals archive photographs of Ryue Nishizawa’s seminal Moriyama House
Steel chain curtains cover skinny Osaka house by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Competition: win a book showcasing 50 new Japanese houses
House in Mukainada is a Hiroshima home that straddles a circular path
House with “margin space” helps relocating city-dwellers adjust to life in rural Japan
Hearth Architects completes family house in Shiga with tree-planted atrium
Gap House is a Japanese home that makes the most of every inch
Cohta Asano builds his new Fukushima home as a cluster of nine cuboids
Apollo Architects’ minimal renovation aims to keep the atmosphere of an old family home in Tokyo
Tomomi Kito remodels Tokyo home to accommodate four generations of the same family
Timber frame projects into rooms and stairwell of Alphaville’s compact Kyoto home
ISSHO Architects uses timber frames to create typhoon-resistant house on a tropical island
Bright white living spaces overhang gallery in top-heavy Tokyo house by Form
Black corrugated metal encases loft-inspired Tokyo house by TakaTina
Arii Irie Architects uses angled windows and tilted roofs for Japanese house extension
