21_21 DESIGN SIGHT current exhibition is entitled "Wild: Untamed Mind,". Shinichi Nakazawa, a philosopher and anthropologist will be the Exhibition Director. Nakazawa is known for fieldwork-based, interdisciplinary research into various places and times.
While carefully tracing by an existing plan to base, it is the renovation of a modest apartment one room that continue to update the required location.
A composite store that consists of a specialty boutique for organic cosmetics and a café, tucked away on a street behind Aoyama-Street. For a woman to enhance her beauty, a close linkage between inner and outer body care is required.
A Hill On A House by Yuko Nagayama & Associates is an urban house surrounded by tall buildings on all sides except for the northeast facing a street in Shibuya, Tokyo. The issue for the architects was how to bring light into the interior, to open the enclosed volume and to develop scenery within it while avoiding looks from the neighborhood.
This compact private residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in Nishi-Azabu—a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses—which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees begin to bloom.
Designed by architecture firm Flathouse, this contemporary seven-layer Tokyo-based home is the perfect example of Japanese living. In a mere 280 sq ft they manage to fit the biscuit shop on the ground floor, using the metal staircase they connect the kitchen and the dining room on the 1.5 level, then the living space on second level, and finally the sleeping area on the top floor that is shared by all family members.
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