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Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu

January 6, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as “solving a puzzle” when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden louvres for privacy. Designed for a couple and their three children, the three-storey House in Minami-Azabu – named after the neighbourhood in which it’s located – sits next to a residential street on its

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Skyscraper hotel Fairmont Tokyo “blurs boundaries between inside and out”

December 21, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian interiors firm BAR Studio has combined lush landscaped terraces and locally sourced materials in Tokyo’s Fairmont hotel to forge a connection to its waterfront location. Fairmont Tokyo occupies the upper eight floors of the 43-storey Blue Front Shibaura South tower by Japanese firm Maki and Associates, offering views across Tokyo Bay on one side and

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Ichio Matsuzawa creates “one-of-a-kind” Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass

December 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls. The bar, located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area, featured see-through walls that resembled sheets of water cascading down from the ceiling. Matsuzawa chose to work with the transparent

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Kazuyo Sejima presents compact Tokyo homes that “show how cities and buildings grow together”

November 4, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio SANAA’s co-founder Kazuyo Sejima is opening three iconic homes to the public with the Tokyo House Tour, which showcases striking post-war buildings. The tour, which will take place during this year’s Art Week Tokyo (AWT), aims to help people discover the city’s rich history of houses built in the city after the second

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I IN uses glossy surfaces and Edo purple to create “new form of Japanese luxury” for Ginza Lounge

November 3, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Shiny aluminium, washi paper details and a reflective ceiling decorate this colour-saturated lounge in Tokyo, which local studio I IN designed at department store Matsuya Ginza. The VIP lounge has a white colour palette with details picked out in Edo purple – a deep purple hue that holds historical significance in Japan and used to

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Symbolplus “quietly integrates” natural materials into its own office in Tokyo

October 17, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Symbolplus has renovated its office in Tokyo, using earthen plaster and delicate Japanese paper to complement the existing building. The Symbolplus office is set within a timber-framed building designed by Japanese architect Akio Hayashi, who asked that the studio use similarly natural materials to fit out its workspace. “He requested that we avoid

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Flooat and Fredericia design Tokyo showroom as “quiet, plain canvas”

October 15, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Danish furniture brand Fredericia worked with local studio Flooat for the launch of its first showroom in Tokyo, which has a minimalist interior that nods to its location in an industrial concrete building. Fredericia and Flooat designed the showroom, which is located in Tokyo’s central Omotesando area, to combine the aesthetics of Denmark and Japan.

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Frama designs first international store in Tokyo to “reflect the architecture of wellbeing”

September 25, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design brand Frama has opened its first permanent shop outside of Denmark in Tokyo, Japan, with a tactile, minimalist interior dominated by wood and stone. Located in the Shibuya Parco shopping centre, Frama Tokyo displays the brand’s Care collection of fragrances and beauty products on stainless-steel shelves that cover three of its four walls. Walls

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Wooden louvres create “subtle seclusion” at Tokyo house by Keiji Ashizawa Design

September 5, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa referenced louvres on townhouses in Kyoto when designing the concrete House in Aoyama, which is intended to foster a sense of privacy. Located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area, the home is designed for a family with a child and two dogs. House in Aoyama’s location at a busy intersection led Keiji

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Kooo Architects creates narrow Tokyo hotel with cut-out balconies and terraces

May 6, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese studio Kooo Architects has designed the skinny Hotel Rakuragu in central Tokyo to have a “unique shape”, with cut-out balconies that help to preserve privacy. The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side. This inspired Kooo Architects’ unusual design, which features large balconies and terraces

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