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Y Residence
2022.02.08This three-story residence sits astride and steep slope, and cascades down from street level to present a low profile to the neighborhood. Careful manipulation of site planning and building volume embeds the architecture with minimal disturbance to the preserved, native silver-birch forest, not-withstanding the residence’s substantial size.
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Domaine de Montille Winery
2021.12.08Domaine De Montille Winery in Hakodate integrates and combines Terroir and Ainu philosophy through contemporary interpretation to fit our time and place in history and technology. Design emphasis is on subtlety of form and material, as opposed to overly decorative, shallow and superficial design character. Consistent with Ainu…
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Dharma Niseko
2021.11.08Dharma Niseko, slated to open in 2022, is located on Hirafu’s “Restaurant Row”, an iconic street characterized by a variety of building styles and eclectic restaurants and bars. Dharma Niseko distinguishes itself as a new landmark through simple, contemporary, organic architecture – essentially a platonic cube punctuated by bay…
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World’s Tallest Wooden Building
2018.02.15A Japanese company has announced plans for the world’s tallest wooden building, a 1,148-foot skyscraper in central Tokyo that will leave all previous wooden structures in its shade. Sumitomo Forestry Co. Ltd., the timber and forest management arm of the Sumitomo, one of Japan’s largest business conglomerate, plans to complete…
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New Architectural Trends: How our Future Cities Look Like
2017.05.23DETAILS When: 15th June 217 (Thu) at 6:30pm Where: Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan Addres: FR Mita Bldg. 9F, 4-1-27 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073 Price: ICCJ-ADI Member / AQI: 3,500yen Non-Member: 5,000yen