Tokyo

Keiji Ashizawa designs “home-like” The Conran Shop in Hillside Terrace

July 5, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Keiji Ashizawa has devised the interiors of The Conran Shop Daikanyama in Tokyo, which is located inside a building by architect Fumihiko Maki and spotlights products from Japan and Asia. The latest outpost from British retailer The Conran Shop is located in the modernist Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama, a quiet area close to the

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Tile-clad Tokyo toilets are drenched in bright green and yellow light

June 22, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio I IN has renovated two toilets in a Tokyo shopping centre, using lights that “propose new colours for genders” to create vivid interiors. The interior design studio completely renovated the two toilets, which are located on the restaurant floor of the shopping centre Shin-Marunouchi in Chiyoda City, Tokyo. It began by wrapping both

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Apollo Architects & Associates create home from stacked volumes in Tokyo

June 3, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Two cantilevered stacked volumes of contrasting materials form Laxus, a new home designed by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates. Located on a corner plot in the Ota Ward of Tokyo, the house was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a client with a love of walnut wood and contemporary Italian furniture. The two

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Keiji Ashizawa and Norm Architects design tactile interiors for “hotel in the sky”

May 19, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa and Danish studio Norm Architects have unveiled their design for the Bellustar Tokyo hotel, which aims to evoke a sense of nature in the middle of Tokyo’s urban Shinjuku district. The two studios worked together to design interiors for five penthouse suites as well as hospitality spaces for the top floors

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Sou Fujimoto’s Tokyo toilet incorporates elongated communal sink

May 10, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled a public toilet that incorporates a communal hand-washing basin, as the final instalment of the Tokyo Toilet project. Replacing a toilet block near the Park Hyatt Tokyo hotel in downtown Tokyo, the Fujimoto-designed structure is the 17th toilet built in the city as part of the Tokyo Toilet project. It

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Cubo Design Architects celebrates traditional Japanese craft in Tokyo home

May 2, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Traditional Japanese materials and details are fused with contemporary finishes at C4L House in Tokyo, designed by local studio Cubo Design Architects. Informed by traditional Japanese construction, the home was designed by Cubo Design Architects to celebrate “the warmth of things made by hand”. It was created in collaboration with several local artisans working with

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Junko Kobayashi tops weathering-steel Tokyo toilet with bright yellow disc

March 27, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Specialist toilet designer Junko Kobayashi has created a public toilet within a series of weathering steel cylinders as her contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. Set under the Sasazuka Station metro station in central Tokyo, Kobayashi’s toilet was designed to be fun and distinctive, while having a civic presence. “Like the stubborn old man in the

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Miles Pennington creates Tokyo toilet to be “centre of the local community”

March 26, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Designer Miles Pennington and DLX Design Lab of the University of Tokyo have designed a public toilet in Japan that can be used as an exhibition space, cinema, pop-up kiosk, information centre or meeting place. Pennington, who is a professor of design-led innovation at the University of Tokyo and the DLX Design Lab, designed the toilet

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Heatherwick Studio designs Tokyo school with “playgrounds between each of the classroms”

February 23, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

UK designer Thomas Heatherwick’s studio has revealed plans for The British School in Tokyo, which will be the first school the practice has designed. Located in the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo’s Minato City area, the 15,000 square-metre school was designed to give students access to numerous outdoor spaces. “Most inner-city schools don’t have enough playground

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Wooden furniture and artworks decorate Hiroo Residence in Tokyo

February 22, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Keiji Ashizawa used muted tones to make the most of the sunlight in this apartment in central Tokyo, which features wooden art pieces and furniture that was specially designed for the space. For the Hiroo Residence, named after its location in the city’s Hiroo neighbourhood, Ashizawa wanted to underline the quality of the light

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