Folm Arts beauty salon by Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects
A house-shaped shop window frames the interior of this renovated beauty salon in Osaka Prefecture by Japanese office Tsubasa Iwahashi Architects. More
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The Times Transplantation Building by Nano Architects
Japanese studio Nano Architects has inserted a sunken circular living room into a 1960s apartment in Fukuoka (+ slideshow). More
Torus by Norisada Maeda Atelier
An opaque box appears to balance over see-through walls of glass and perforated steel at this house and pet shop in Saitama, Japan, by architecture studio Norisada Maeda Atelier (+ slideshow). More
Teikyo University Elementary School by Kengo Kuma and Associates
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma conceived this primary school in north-west Tokyo as the modern equivalent of a traditional Japanese schoolhouse with timber-clad walls (+ slideshow). More
YouTube Space Tokyo by Klein Dytham Architecture
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has used the television-shaped icon of YouTube's logo to decorate the walls of the video website's new production studio in the Japanese capital (+ slideshow). More
end...Link beauty salon by Yasunari Tsukada
A timber lattice supports shelves, worktops, lighting and mirrors down one side of this beauty salon in Osaka by Japanese designer Yasunari Tsukada (+ slideshow). More
ABC Center House by Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima
With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). More
Motoazabu Apartment sYms by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect & Associates
Diagonally stepped floors and ceilings divide triangular zones inside this pair of studio apartments in Tokyo by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architect & Associates (+ slideshow). More
ST-House by PANDA
Japanese studio PANDA gave this house in Tokyo a glazed ground floor, then enclosed it in a high concrete-block wall. More
Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates
This house in Tokyo by Apollo Architects & Associates has skylights in the roof and holes in the floor plates, allowing daylight to reach right down to the basement (+ slideshow). More
NN-House by PANDA
This little house in Tokyo by Japanese studio PANDA has a triangular courtyard and an L-shaped roof terrace tucked behind its walls (+ slideshow). More
Coach Omotesando by OMA
OMA's new Tokyo store for American accessories brand Coach is a glazed cube with a herringbone-patterned display system (+ slideshow). More
Y Clinic by Kimitaka Aoki of ARCO Architects
This clinic by architect Kimitaka Aoki in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan is designed to look like a cluster of smaller buildings (+ slideshow). More
Sundial House by Hironaka Ogawa
Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa designed this rural house in Kagawa like a sundial, with a south-facing tower that casts shadows across a grassy courtyard (+ slideshow). More
House T by Tsukano Architect Office
A narrow vertical slice at one corner is the only interruption to the monolithic facade of this plain white house in Miyazaki, Japan, by Hiroshima studio Tsukano Architect Office (+ slideshow). More
Prototyping UH by General Design
Japanese studio General Design constructed this two-storey house in Tokyo as the prototype for a series of urban housing templates that can be replicated in any Japanese city (+ slideshow). More
EEL Nakameguro by Schemata Architecture Office
Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka has stripped an office in south-west Tokyo back to the concrete to create a fashion boutique that looks more like an abandoned warehouse for Japanese brand EEL (+ slideshow). More
House in Sayo by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Boxy wooden rooms branch out from a crooked blue spine at this family house in Sayo, Japan, in our second story this week about the work of FujiwaraMuro Architects. More
House in Keyaki by Snark and Ouvi
This house in Saitama, Japan, by architects Snark and Ouvi has bronze-coloured walls and a terrace cut out from the roof (+ slideshow). More
House in Muko by FujiwaraMuro Architects
Huge vertical louvres give a pleated appearance to this family house in Kyoto by FujiwaraMuro Architects (+ slideshow). More