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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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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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Pelli Clarke & Partners completes Japan’s tallest skyscraper in Tokyo

March 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed Japan’s tallest skyscraper, the Mori JP Tower, as part of the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo. At 330 metres high, the glass-clad Mori JP Tower is Tokyo’s first supertall skyscraper and the tallest building in Japan, exceeding the 300-metre-tall Abeno Harukas in Osaka, also designed by Pelli Clarke

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Explore all 17 Tokyo Toilet projects featured in Wim Wenders film Perfect Days

March 8, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Designed by architects including Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Toilet project forms the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. Here, Dezeen rounds up all 17 facilities. The Tokyo Toilet project brings together 17 public toilets in the city’s Shibuya district, created by architects and designers over the past six years. Commissioned by

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