Tile-clad Japanese buildings inform self-designed office in Valencia
Architect Paloma Bau and creative director Ausiàs Pérez have collaborated on designing their shared office in Valencia, Spain,…
YNAS uses canopies to reconnect Japan home with the outdoors
Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its…
Kuma&Elsa arranges apartments around translucent “huts”
Architecture studio Kuma&Elsa has renovated the top two floors of an apartment block in Japan, creating enclosures that…
Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into Unravel hair salon
Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and…
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Kyoto‘s historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here,…
Japanese and modernist design informs Studio Hagen Hall house
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including…
Keiji Ashizawa transforms 120-year-old townhouse into rental home
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original…
Traditional townhouses inform interiors of Capella Kyoto hotel
The unique “rhythm and progression” of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this…
Zaha Hadid Architects designs Okinawa beach retreat for Not A Hotel
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a snaking hotel for hospitality brand Not A Hotel, which will perch above…
Stool informed by traditional Japanese game among projects from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
Dezeen School Shows: an adjustable stool crafted from cord and wood inspired by a traditional Japanese string game is…
Astet Studio references Tokyo izakayas at Mitsu restaurant
Contemporary Shoji screens and hanging fabrics have been used to evoke Tokyo izakayas at the Mitsu Japanese restaurant in London.…
This week BIG revealed a trio of rammed-earth villas in Japan
This week on Dezeen, Danish studio BIG unveiled three rammed-earth villas on the remote island of Sagishima, which…