Be-Fun Design builds a row of four super-skinny houses in Japan
In keeping with the growing trend for skinny houses, Japanese studio Be-Fun Design has completed a terrace of four narrow residences on a plot of just 60 square metres. More
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Y+M Design Office envelops seven blocks under one roof with Rain Shelter House
Seven house-shaped blocks are sheltered beneath the large asymmetric roof of this house in Japan by Y+M Design Office (+ slideshow). More
Suppose Design Office creates Hiroshima hotel complex targeted at cyclists
Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has converted a seafront warehouse into a specialist cycling centre with a hotel that allows guests to check-in while still on their bikes (+ sideshow). More
Airhouse Design Office creates a hierarchy of rooms inside House in Ohno
The most private rooms of this house by Japanese studio Airhouse Design Office are concealed within massive columns, leaving the surrounding double-height space to become an area for socialising (+ slideshow). More
Torafu Architects creates three-tiered interior for Japanese ice-cream cafe
Japanese firm Torafu Architects used contrasting floor finishes to define the three distinct spaces of Snow Picnic, an experimental ice-cream shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
Suppose Design Office pairs industrial fittings with plants at Biotop lifestyle store
Plants are interspersed amongst the raw industrial spaces of this lifestyle store in Osaka by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office, which combines shopping, dining and gardening (+ slideshow). More
Black house in Osaka by Coo Planning features a basic plywood interior
This house in Osaka by Japanese studio Coo Planning hides a warm plywood interior behind an austere black facade (+ slideshow). More
Kohki Hiranuma's Osaka dental surgery features curvy corners and a twisted roof
A complex arrangement of overlapping wooden joists gives a twisted roof to this dental surgery in Osaka Prefecture by Japanese studio Kohki Hiranuma Architect & Associates (+ slideshow). More
Multi-layered home by Y+M Design Office hides a house-shaped room behind wooden walls
There are two layers to this residence in Tokushima, Japan – the first is a living room that looks like a miniature house, while the second is a perimeter wall that encloses extra rooms and patios (+ slideshow). More
Yuko Nagayama's cafe and sweet shop wraps around a tree
This cafe and sweet shop in Okamoto, Japan, was designed by architect Yuko Nagayama to look like two separate buildings with a small courtyard and tree sandwiched in the middle. More
Suppose Design Office adds double-height dining room to House in Chiba
Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has replaced the roof of a 35-year-old family house, creating a lofty new living room that opens to the garden at both ends (+ slideshow). More
Delta House by Yoshiyasu Mizuno centres around a triangular courtyard
A sheltered outdoor cooking area commonly found in traditional Japanese farmhouses is reinterpreted to form the open-air centre of this family house in Kanagawa by Japanese architect Yoshiyasu Mizuno (+ slideshow). More
Makoto Yamaguchi adds ventilated "open rooms" to Oggi apartment block in Tokyo
This Tokyo apartment block by Japanese firm Makoto Yamaguchi Design contains 12 open-air rooms behind its tiled exterior walls, helping to bring natural light and ventilation through the interior (+ slideshow). More
Kotaro Horiuchi creates a paper hideout for Fusionner 3.0 installation
Japanese architect Kotaro Horiuchi cut out profiles of gabled houses from large sheets of paper to create a tunnel inside a university gallery, forming the third installation in his Fusionner series (+ slideshow). More
Clothing rails function as partitions inside apartment and cafe by Alts Design Office
Behind the clean white facade of this building in Shiga, Japan, is a cafe filled with wooden furniture and plants, and an apartment where clothing rails and shelves take the place of walls (+ slideshow). More
Atelier Norisada Maeda's Orange house features a curvy interior and a glass floor
A staircase spirals like a helter skelter around the curving internal walls of this minimal white house in Tokyo by local office Atelier Norisada Maeda (+ slideshow). More
Sisii showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates is interspersed with rockeries
Holes in a wrought iron platform are filled with planted rockeries at this Kobe showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates for Japanese fashion brand Sisii (+ slideshow). More
Amano Design Office wraps Tokyo office block with steel ribbons
Narrow strips of steel give an undulating facade to this renovated commercial block in Tokyo by Japanese firm Amano Design Office (+ slideshow). More
Elongated gallery and house by Shinichi Ogawa creates a forest home for a florist
Japanese firm Shinichi Ogawa & Associates added a glazed wall to the elongated facade of this house and gallery in Japan's Mie prefecture so the florist who owns it can look out into the forest (+ slideshow). More
Kotaro Horiuchi creates a Paper Cave inside his architecture studio
Japanese architect Kotaro Horiuchi has created a white cave-like space in his office by hanging sheets of glass fibre paper from the ceiling (+ slideshow). More