Commenter says "no culture experiments with the domestic house like the Japanese"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating a Japanese house arranged around a series of central staircases and discussing other top stories. More
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Kappa House by Archipelago Architects Studio uses staircases as surfaces and partitions
Archipelago Architects Studio arranged this house in Kanagawa, Japan, around a series of central staircases that divide the spaces and provide places to sit or relax. More
Polycarbonate screens conceal bedrooms of House in Yanakacho by KACH
Translucent polycarbonate panels wrap around the upper floor of this house in Yanakacho, Japan, hiding the private areas from view while allowing daylight to enter. More
Jorge Almazán creates minimal broken-plan interior for House in Honjo
Suspended ceilings and unnecessary partition walls were removed in this minimalist revamp of a house in Japan's Saitama Prefecture, designed by Jorge Almazán Architects. More
Apollo Architects & Associates arranges Tokyo house around hidden courtyards
A pair of internal courtyards filled with plants bring daylight and greenery into the living spaces of this home designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a site in central Tokyo. More
Kompas completes tile-clad house and gallery for art collector in Japan
Architecture studio Kompas has completed a house and art gallery in Chiba, Japan, featuring a sawtooth roof and a facade clad in black tiles that are angled to create louvred openings. More
Tomoaki Uno Architects designs house in Japan with Aztec-informed pyramid
A truncated stone pyramid containing a study stands in one corner of the introverted Takamine-cho House, designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects in Japan's Aichi Prefecture. More
Extended eaves shelter garden of Imaise House by Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates
Japanese studio Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates has created a house in the city of Ichinomiya, Japan, with exaggerated eaves that shelter an outdoor living space and garden. More
Moriya and Partners designs geometric villa overlooking the sea in Japan
A steep, timber-framed roof shelters this triangular home by Japanese practice Moriya and Partners, located on a cliff edge overlooking the sea in Yawatano, Japan. More
Concrete stilts protect House in Takaoka from extreme weather
Japanese studio Unemori Architects has completed a house in the city of Takaoka that is raised 70 centimetres above the ground on concrete stilts to protect it from flooding and heavy snow. More
FORM/Kouichi Kimura creates geometric hair salon and home in Japan
Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed Landscape House, a stack of intersecting cuboid forms in Shiga that combines the client's home with their hair salon business. More
Not Architects Studio encloses terraces with metal mesh at Weather House
Screens made from metal mesh wrap around two sides of this house in Tokyo, Japan. More
Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects marries indoors and outdoors with Half Barn in Hashimoto
A simple gabled barn structure frames half interior, half exterior spaces in this rural Japanese home by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. More
Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX
Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. More
READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More
Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More
Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house
Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create "a spacious void of shadows". More
Apollo Architects & Associates creates multi-generational home with walled-in garden
Apollo Architects & Associates has designed a family home with a walled-in garden that houses two generations under one roof and aims to blend indoor and outdoor living. More
Unemori Architects creates small blocky house on "tiny plot" in Tokyo
Japanese architecture studio Unemori Architects has designed a small house formed of several stacked boxes wrapped in corrugated steel on a 26-square-metre plot in Tokyo. More
House T by Suppose Design Office is a "cave-like" concrete house in downtown Tokyo
Architect Tanijiri Makoto of Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has created a monolithic concrete home for himself and his family in Tokyo, featuring dark living spaces that open onto a sheltered terrace. More