Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Japanese bookstore with "flowing" steel roof
Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has wrapped the Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore in Nagano with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms". More
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Klein Dytham Architecture gives Fender's first flagship store a welcoming feel
Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender's Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. More
Klein Dytham Architecture creates intricate wooden shop front for Cartier
Klein Dytham Architecture has created a decorative wooden facade featuring a pattern of interlocking three-dimensional blocks that are individually illuminated at night for a Cartier store in Osaka, Japan. More
Klein Dytham Architecture creates colourful two-tone bedrooms for Tokyo's Toggle Hotel
Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a hotel in central Tokyo with a series of colourful, two-tone bedrooms and a Pantone colour of the year exterior. More
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A Japanese clubhouse features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a clubhouse and activity centre for a hotel in rural Japan. More
Klein Dytham Architecture creates "fairytale building" for Japanese hotel
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a clubhouse and activity centre surrounded by forest for the Risonare Nasu hotel in rural Japan. More
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham say lack of "huggy-kissy stuff" in Japan may help slow coronavirus
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture explain how Japan's culture of bowing instead of hand-shaking may have helped in the fight against coronavirus, in their video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. More
Live video interview with Klein Dytham Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture spoke to Dezeen live from Tokyo today at 2:00pm UK time as part of Virtual Design Festival's PechaKucha collaboration. More
Watch our talk with Dulux Trade at the RIBA in London
Dezeen teamed up with Dulux Trade to host a breakfast conversation with architects Mark Dytham and Dara Huang on the theme of future-proofing design. More
Shingle-clad clubhouse and visitor centre faces ice rink in a Japanese forest
Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a visitor centre and ice rink in Japan's Karuizawa region, featuring a curving, shingle-clad frontage that follows the edge of a landscaped skating pond. More
Klein Dytham creates book-lined leisure space inside AL_A's Central Embassy tower in Bangkok
Klein Dytham Architecture has completed a sprawling "village" of shops, restaurants and co-working space within Amanda Levete's recently completed Central Embassy complex in Bangkok, Thailand. More
Drones will bring "profound change" to architecture and cities, says Mark Dytham
Drones will transform the way buildings are designed, the way they look and the way they are used, according to architect Mark Dytham. More
Klein Dytham's Ginza Place features latticed facade inspired by traditional Japanese crafts
Over 5,000 aluminium panels are arranged to create the perforated facade of this commercial building by Klein Dytham Architecture, which overlooks one of Tokyo's most iconic intersections. More
Klein Dytham builds latticed community hall for Toyo Ito's post-earthquake recovery programme
Five years after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, Klein Dytham Architecture has unveiled a community hall for recovering city Sōma, designed to look like a huge straw hat (+ slideshow). More
Japan's "toilet of the year" by Klein Dytham Architecture seems to offer no privacy
People appear to be dancing, jumping and skating behind the seemingly translucent facade of this public restroom, which has just been named Japanese Toilet of the Year (+ movie). More
Klein Dytham's Shonan T-Site is a bookstore with a makeshift high street inside
An ivy motif spreads across the exterior of this bookstore in Japan by Klein Dytham Architecture, while the interior presents books and magazines on a "street" that also includes a cafe and a hair salon (+ slideshow). More
Google Japan by Klein Dytham Architecture
Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architecture referenced traditional Japanese festivals, bathhouses, fishponds and timber houses for the interior of Google's new Japan office (+ 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
"There's a very strong future for books" - Mark Dytham on Daikanyama T-Site
World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the future of books in the digital age in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival earlier this month, where a bookstore he designed in Japan won the prize in the shopping centres category. More
Daikanyama T-Site by Klein Dytham Architecture
The latticed facade of this Tokyo bookstore by Klein Dytham Architecture comprises hundreds of interlocking T-shapes that subtly reference the logo of entertainment retailer Tsutaya (+ slideshow). More