Articles Tagged with ''Japan''

Mount Fuji Architects Studio

A respect for the purity of craft, fused with a deft material hand, help create buildings that seem effortless yet substantial.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

December 1, 2009

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Architects Masahiro and Mao Harada, the principals of Mount Fuji Architects Studio, are mountain people.

Sambuichi Architects Inujima Art Project Project Portfolio

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

July 19, 2009

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Project Specs Inujima Art Project Inujima, Japan Sambuichi Architects << Return to article the People Architect Sambuichi Architects 8-3-302 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku Hiroshima 730-0811 Japan T : +81(0)82 544-1417 F : +81(0)82 544-1418 samb@d2.dion.ne.jp Engineer(s): Arup Japan General contractor: Omoto Gumi Co.,Ltd the Products Structural system Art work: Yukinori Yanagi Plant advisor: Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology Okayama University Drainage: Faculty of Bioresource Sciences Akita Prefectural University, Kubota Hygiene: Sanyo Giken Ltd. Electricity: ASAHIDENGYO Co,.Ltd. Environmental observation / Chimney monitor system: Keisoku Research Consultant CO. Purify tank: Asahi Engineering Co,. Ltd. Stone works: NAKASEKI CO., LTD Wood made door

Inujima Art Project

Sambuichi Architects breathes new life into an old refinery to create the Inujima Art Project on a secluded island in Japan.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

July 19, 2009

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An isolated island amid many that dot the Seto Inland Sea, Inujima once helped fuel Japan’s early industrialization.

N House

Sou Fujimoto subverts common notions of inside and out, public and private, solid and void with the N House in Japan.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

April 1, 2009

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A tidy package with a porous wrapping, N House is a set of three nesting boxes that span the scales of city and domicile.

Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop

Junya Ishigami distills architecture to its bare minimum at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

November 19, 2008

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Occasionally a building emerges that seems to transcend architecture’s inherent limitations.

Bape Shibuya

With movement, light, and sound, Wonderwall creates a sensory shopping environment for a bathing ape in Tokyo’s Shibuya district.

Naomi Pollock, FAIA

September 1, 2008

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In 1993, when the hip-hop-inspired hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts of A Bathing Ape (aka BAPE) first began appearing on the back streets of Tokyo’s edgy Urahara neighborhood, their designer never dreamed his clothes would be sold next door to The Gap, Uniqlo, and other mass-market retailers.