Creating a Cozy Nook


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This unconventional house designed by Hiroshi Nakamura, a young architect based in Tokyo, has a wall in the living room which has been pushed outside creating a big ‘bump’ in the facade of the house.

House SH by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Structure : steel-reinforced concrete
Square footage : 936
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completion: 2005


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Images © Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co., Ltd. / Photos by Naoki Honjo

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4 Responses to “Creating a Cozy Nook”

  1. angel March 1, 2008 at 10:38 am #

    its wonderful, full of light, air and weightlessness

  2. Yukiko March 6, 2008 at 1:28 pm #

    @ his site I watched this girl over&over again. She was a reason to purchase「恋する建築」by Hiroshi Nakamura. Her expression was the answer of his creation that what I felt.
    Then this book became one of my favorit! I’m so grad to meet this book at this very moment☆
    And I love to imagine a guy who want to be an architect carry this Alice blue color book with such a girly title…would be cute!

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