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Nendo designs Tokyo store interior to look like “melted ice cream cake”

July 18, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Stacked soil walls resemble layers of cake in this chocolate and ice cream shop in Kichijoji, Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Nendo. Glace et Chocolat has been designed as a sister store to adjoining patisserie À Tes Souhaits!. The interior features striped soil walls of varying tones, made to appear like a cut ice cream cake with layers of different

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Muji to open hotels in China and Japan

July 14, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese retailer Muji is set to open hotels in Shenzhen, China and Tokyo, Japan, which will be styled with the minimalist brand’s furnishings and products. The first Muji Hotel will open in Shenzhen later this year, while the second has just broken ground in Tokyo’s Chūō City and is slated for completion in 2019. While details about both projects are currently vague, Business

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Chop + Archi cuts triangular lightwells into corners of house in Tokyo

July 12, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architecture studio Chop + Archi has used trio of courtyards to make the most of the sharp “dead space” corners of this house, located on an almost triangular plot in Tokyo. Situated on a south-eastern corner plot in a dense residential area in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, Kamiuma House provides the home for a couple and

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Tomomi Kito remodels Tokyo home to accommodate four generations of the same family

July 1, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Japanese studio Tomomi Kito Architect & Associates has renovated the interior of an 1970s house in Tokyo to provide a open-planned home for multiple generations of the same family. The Tokyo firm wsa tasked with remodelling the two-storey timber structure to house the young family, as well as the wife’s parents and her grandmother in a project it named House for 4

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Frank Lloyd Wright merged eastern and western architecture at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel

June 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Our Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary series ends with the American architect’s best-known building in Asia, the now-demolished Imperial Hotel, where he combined his western design principles and a fascination with Japan. After travelling to Japan in 1905, Wright developed a keen interest in Japanese art and architecture. He was therefore keen to win the bid to

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