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Project: Sugamo Shinkin Bank
Architecture: emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Space Design/Sign Design: emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design
Photography: Nacasa & Partners Inc.

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Project: Wear House
Architects: Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU
Location: Seto, Japan
Interior Design: Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU
Landscape Design: Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU
Structural engineer: Kenji NAWA/NAWAKENJI-M
Constructional engineer: Mizuno construction company
Supervision: Akitoshi Ukai/AUAU
Project area: 182,63 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Yoshimura Masaya

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Project: FLOW
Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
            Satoshi Kurosaki
Location: Chiba, Japan
Date of Completion: December 2009
Principal Use: Private House
Structure: RC
Site Area: 148.55m2
Total Floor Area: 116.96m2 (59.62m2/1F, 57.34m2/2F)
Design Period: October 2008 – February 2009
Construction Period: July 2009 – December 2009
Structural Engineer: Kenta Masaki
Photos: Masao Nishikawa

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Considered as the profession’s highest honor that an individual can recive Fumihiko Maki has been awarded with the AIA Gold Medal. The Gold Medal honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Maki will be honored at the 2011 AIA National Convention in New Orleans.

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Maki is the 67th AIA Gold Medalist and joins the ranks of such visionaries as Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Renzo Piano, I.M. Pei, Cesar Pelli, Santiago Calatrava and last year’s recipient, Peter Bohlin, FAIA. In recognition of his legacy to architecture, his name will be chiseled into the granite Wall of Honor in the lobby of the AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Project: T-House
Architect: Atelier Boronski
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Photography: Kei Sugino

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Project: Cafe la Miell
Architect: Suppose Design Office
Location: Niihama, Japan
Date: 2006

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The Japan Art Association named the 2010 Praemium Imperiale Laureates. The winners of this year’s prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards are Toyo Ito (Architecture, Japan) , Sophia Loren (Theater/Film, Italy), Enrico Castellani (Painting, Italy), Rebecca Horn (Sculpture, Germany), and Maurizio Pollini (Music, Italy).

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Project: Les Aventuriers
Author: Shun Hirayama Architecture
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Total Floor Area: 166.77 m2
1st Floor Area: 81.57 m2
2nd Floor Area: 85.20 m2
Structure: Wood
Design Period: 2007.3 – 2008.5
Construction Period: 2008.6 – 2009.5
Photography: DAICI ANO
Katsuhisa Kida

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Project: House in Kitakamakura
Author: Suppose Design Office
        Makoto Tanijiri
Design Team: Hayato Komatsu, Kazutaka Sumi
Location: Hiroshima, Japan

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Project: Jimbocho Theatre
Architect: Nikken Sekkei
Location: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Owner: Shogakukan Inc.
Land area: 319.28 sq mt
Site area: 252.53 sq mt
Total floor area: 1,427.59 sq mt
Structure: RC(steel plate anti-shock panel)
Floors: 2 floors underground, 6 floors above ground
Max height: GL+28.05m
Construction period: From March 2006 to June 2007
Photos by: Tor

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Project: House in Kitakamakura
Author: Suppose Design Office
        Makoto Tanijiri
Design Team: Hayato Komatsu, Kazutaka Sumi
Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Structural Engineers: Nawakenji-m/Kenji Nawa
Gross Internal Floor area: 113.5 sq mt
Photography: Toshiyuki Yano [Nacasa&Partners Inc.]

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 Japan based firm Suppose Design Office, have designed a house located in the city of Otake, Japan.

From Suppose Design Office
The Otake house is located in the West of Hiroshima prefecture, on a high plateau that neighbors the Kamei Park of the Kamei Castle Ruins. To the South is an industrial region and a beautiful mountain range, and to the North a remarkable view of the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima. We created a design fitting to these two contrasting and beautiful scenes. We thought of the North side as the type of scenery you take in and savor, and the South side as the type that you place yourself in. Structurally we divided the area between load bearing zones and free zones to make a place that could have two personalities at once.

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Designer: Sambuichi Architects
         Hiroshi Sambuichi
Location: Japan
Photos: Katsuhisa Kida / FOTOTECA

Hiroshi Sambuichi`s ideas on making architecture are as far removed from those of his Tokyo contemporaries as the location of his Hiroshima-based office. With his latest project, a house for a couple and their three children, Sambuichi sets an example for the proper use of natural energy sources, showing that good design is first and foremost all about getting the balance between the building and the earth, right.

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Project: House of Diffusion
Architect: Koichi Kimura Architects
           FORM
Location: Shiga, Japan

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Project: TOO49
Architect: 16A
           Tatsuya Ogawa
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Satoshi Asakawa ZOOM

TOO49 is a six-story housing complex with 43 studios and 6 two-bed-room units.
Proposed in this project is the prototype to stack courtyard houses in not-too-close connection with surrounding contexts. With the slates’ aging, this out-of-scale block will grow into a landmark to sympathize with the blending well with the surrounding area.
More images after the break.

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