Projects
Maniera Architect & Associates
Liason House
Kobe, 2004
A site is located in Higashinada-ku, Kobe-shi Uozaki, and Sumiyoshi river is flowing around frontal road. This whole is maintained gradua...
Shigeru Ban Architects
Nomadic Museum
Tokyo/LA/NY, 2005
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los Angeles in 2006. The site in Sant...
Shigeru Ban Architects
Seikei University Library
Tokyo, 2006
A traditional library is defined as a quiet place for study, yet the new Seikei University Library defines a new id...
Shigeru Ban Architects
Crescent House
Shizuoka, 2008
This site is located on the slope in the north side of villa area in South Hakone. The scenery of the north side is rare because of its o...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Lotus House
Eastern Japan, 2005
This house sits beside a quiet river, deep in the mountains. My concept for the project was to lay waterways between the river and the ho...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Suntory Museum of Art
Tokyo, 2007
This entire building is covered with vertical louvers made of white ceramic panels. We chose this material based on the image of earthenw...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Nezu Museum
Tokyo, 2009
For this renewal of a historic museum in Tokyo, we attempted to conceive of the museum as an urban design rather than just an individual ...
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Garden Terrace Nagasaki
Nagasaki, 2009
One of our biggest challenges in this project was to integrate three entirely different volumes – a big box, a small box, and a lin...
Teuffel Engineering Consultants
„Poly Stella“ Sculpture
Tokyo, 2009
The polyhedron is a representative model of organically grown forms of organisation in nature. The stainless steel sculpture, made of Alu...
Chang Bene Design
Gift Shop/Tea Room
Tokyo, 1997
The gift shop leads to a passage with a concrete wall cast with the names of Chinese teas. The passage in turn connects to the tea-tastin...
KMDW / Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop
Hakone Villa
Kanagawa, 2009
This vacation home is located within a national park, on a 1650 square meter site in the Sengokuhara district of Hakone. We took the surr...
KMDW / Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop
Kobe 25th
Hyogo, 2010
(Photo: Takenaka Corporation) This project is located near the port in the city of Kobe. Like the surface of the o...
KMDW / Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop
Hiroo Condominium Interior
Tokyo, 2007
(Photo: Nacasa & Partners Inc.) Each unit in the complex has large sliding glass doors that open to the east. To take ...
Thomas Balsley Associates
J City
Tokyo
Situated in central Tokyo’s university and publishing district, this new mixed-use project will provide urban streetscape character...