Snark and Ouvi's house for an illustrator features exposed wooden beams
The upper storey of this house in Kanagawa is supported by timber beams that extend from the outer walls towards an atrium that connects the two levels (+ slideshow). More
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Company's Secrets of North Japan includes "spirit" costumes and Japanese roller-skates
Finnish design duo Company has created a range of products combining traditional skills and designs from northern Japan with craft from Finland and has given each one a "spirit" – a person dressed in a costume to represent the soul of the object (+ slideshow). More
House in Ikoma has a central void that stretches all the way up to its pitched roof
The internal spaces of this house in the Japanese city of Ikoma are arranged around a full-height void that incorporates the staircase (+ slideshow). More
House on Awaji Island has a timber porch with a house-shaped entrance
The entrance to this white house by Osaka architecture studio IZUE is contained within a hole in the slatted wooden porch that frames a view through to the sea (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid teams up with Nikken Sekkei to submit new bid for Tokyo 2020 stadium
Zaha Hadid is working with Japanese architecture and engineering firm Nikken Sekkei to win back the Tokyo Olympic stadium project after its first competition-winning design was thrown out in July (+ slideshow). More
Junichi Kato clads House in Shigaraki in dark brown-coated steel
The wooden frame of this two-storey family home in Japan's Shiga Prefecture is disguised by a layer of ridged steel panels (+ slideshow). More
Okuwada gives Mook salon in Osaka an oak-panelled makeover
Oak boards cover the chamfered entrance to this hair and beauty salon in Osaka, renovated by Okuwada Architects Office to look like a cave (+ slideshow). More
Slide House by Y+M Design Office comprises four layers of square concrete frames
Square concrete frames in different sizes create four layers of rooms for this house at the foot of Japan's Mount Rokkō by Y+M Design Office (+ slideshow). More
Jo Nagasaka knocks through the walls of a Tokyo house to reveal its aged structure
Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka stripped away the walls of this inherited house in Tokyo, revealing an arrangement of timber columns that give the residence an unfinished appearance (+ slideshow). More
Shimpei Oda creates "inner balcony" in renovated Osaka apartment
Architect Shimpei Oda has renovated a 36-square-metre studio apartment in Osaka, Japan, transforming part of a balcony into an extension of the living room. More
Top-heavy ballet school by Y+M Design Office features an oversized roof
This ballet studio in Japan by Y+M Design Office is topped by a large pointed roof with curving eaves and is lifted above the ground by a small cement-rendered podium (+ slideshow). More
Katsutoshi Sasaki's House in Yamanote features sleeping platforms raised over an indoor terrace
A corridor functions as an indoor garden for this small house in Toyota, Japan, above which architect Katsutoshi Sasaki has installed a series of wooden sleeping platforms. More
Zaha Hadid Architects launches campaign to reinstate scrapped Tokyo stadium design
Zaha Hadid Architects has released a new movie detailing its design for its scrapped Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, which it describes as "the only way to achieve value for money in the market" (+ movie). More
House in Tomigusuku by Rhythmdesign features 36 openings across three facades
A grid of near-identical doors and windows punctures all three visible facades of this seemingly cube-shaped house in Okinawa by architecture studio Rhythmdesign (+ slideshow). More
Glass and steel office by Issei Suma inserted into century-old Japanese cow barn
Behind the crumbling exterior of a 100-year-old cowshed in Japan's Tokushima Prefecture, architect Issei Suma has inserted a glass and steel office for a computing company (+ slideshow). More
Matsuyama house by TTArchitects features dedicated spaces for watching fireworks
A requirement for this house in Matsuyama, Japan, was for views of the city's summer firework display, so architect Teruki Takayoshi added a balcony, a roof terrace and a two-storey-high window (+ slideshow). More
Fuse Atelier's House in Tsudanuma brings light in through a perforated concrete facade
Square and circular holes puncture the concrete facade of this house in Japan by Fuse Atelier, allowing light to filter through to five small terraces concealed behind (+ movie). More
Rooms are less than two metres wide inside Tokyo house by YUUA Architects
Japanese studio YUUA Architects & Associates has slotted a house into a 2.5-metre-wide space between two existing buildings in Tokyo. More
Saito House in Tokyo features herringbone flooring and an exposed wooden structure
Japanese architects Kunihiko Matsuba and Seitaro Aso have renovated an apartment in Tokyo, pairing exposed structural elements with contemporary details (+ slideshow). More
Memorials by Beomki Lee would pay tribute to victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami
Graduate shows 2015: MIT graduate Beomki Lee has developed a proposal to commemorate the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan, with a series of spaces themed around air, earth, and water (+ slideshow). More