These chairs share three things in common. Continue Reading…
Sarugaku – backstreet shopping mall
Who would think about building an open-air shopping mall on a piece of land that measures only 5,791 square feet? Continue Reading…
a (small) splash of color
Some noticeable tendencies found in contemporary Japanese houses:
1. very small
2. an interior with stark white walls or fair-faced concrete
3. using single letter in naming a project like “house h” or “k residence”
I don’t think 1 is ever going to change in Japan. The reason for that is obvious, no?
Then how about 2? I think white, gray and black have a fatal attraction for the Japanese, and Continue Reading…
Clean, modern, well thought out
He is no Tadao Ando, but that doesn’t make Akira Sakamoto any less of an architect. If you had a choice between Ando and him as an architect for your very first house, Continue Reading…
