The contemporary 'Prince Smart Inn Kyoto Sanjo' hotel, designed by GARDE, boasts a machiya-inspired facade with Japanese lattice doors and latticework, creating a sense of anticipation for visitors. Located in a highly convenient location in the heart of Kyoto city, the 5-story hotel building offers a total of 137 guest rooms.
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Kyoto Global Design Awards
The winning proposal of the Czech pavilion for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka. The architecture of the Czech pavilion for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, is a sophisticated instrument for achieving a higher form of viability. The dynamic spiral movement upwards is an allegory of the ideal life path.
Project name
Sculpting Vitality
Architecture firm
Apropos Architects
Design team
Michal Gabaš, Tomáš Beránek, Nikoleta Slováková, Tereza Šváchová
Completion year
estimated completion 1Q 2025
Collaborators
Apropos Architects: Kryštof Jireš, Rudolf Nikerle. Visual communication and exposition concept: Lunchmeat Studio [Petr Fašianok, Jan Kistanov, Jiří Kubalík, Dominik Miklušák].
Client
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (MFA CR) Office of the General Commissioner of EXPO
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Pavilion
The EXPO 2025 pavilion by Mjölk architekti is a welcoming wooden building conceived as a garden in the sky. It was created with ease and expresses the optimistic outlook of its authors for the future. The pavilion has been designed so that its realisation puts the least possible strain on the environment during fabrication, operation and transport...
Project name
Sky Under the Trees
Architecture firm
Mjölk architekti
Location
World EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan
Photography
Mjölk architekti
Collaborators
Curator, libretto: Ondřej Horák. Graphic designer: Marek Nedelka. Graphic designer and illustrator: Anežka Minaříková. Artistic conception: Richard Loskot, Rozárka Jiráková. Production, japanologist: Martina Hončíková. Media communication: Linka News.
Built area
Built-up Area 688 m² Gross Floor Area 2319 m² Usable Floor Area 1858 m²
Site area
Site area 996 m² Dimensions 6738 m³
Civil engineer
Pavel Bičovský
Client
Office of the Commissioner General for the Participation of the Czech Republic at the EXPO Universal Exposition
The site shape is almost triangular and is located between a main street and a residential area. More than half of the site faces the street. Because of its good location, the client requested a house with a space that could be used as a rental store.
Project name
Michiyama House
Architecture firm
Niko Design Studio
Principal architect
Taketo Nishikubo
Design team
Niko Design Studio
Structural engineer
Noriyuki Osajima
Construction
Kurihara Koumuten
Typology
Residential › House
A building that floats a few centimeters above our daily lives. On a small narrow plot (4.9 m wide, 14.7 m deep) in metropolitan Tokyo sits a wooden house. The clients are an up-and-coming manga artist, her partner, and two owls who are the new additions to the family.
Project name
A Japanese manga artist’s house
Architecture firm
Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL
Photography
Katasumasa Tanaka
Principal architect
Tan Yamanouchi
Design team
Tan Yamanouchi
Built area
Building area: 86.45 m², Total floor area: 86.45 m², Maximum height: 8,020mm
Design year
May 2020 ~ Sep 2021
Structural engineer
Graph Studio / Yuko Mihara
Construction
Taishin Kensetsu / Yasuhiro Ikebe, Keisuke Nishide
Material
Wooden framework method (Japanese traditional construction module), Concrete mat foundation
Typology
Residential › House
In designing the headquarters building for ZOZO, the company behind fashion e-commerce site "ZOZOTOWN," the architect’s aim was to create a “regionally integrated office” that will grow with the city, based on a vision of the city itself as being an office where needs such as cafés, parks, daycares, gym facilities, and more are outsourced within th...
Project name
The Office Inspired by Woven Fabrics
Architecture firm
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, Takenaka Corporation
Completion year
December 2020
Structural engineer
KAP, Takenaka Corporation
Typology
Commercial › Office Building
‘DOMA’ is a space form in traditional Japanese architecture. It is usually connected to the outdoor part of the house and is lower than the rest of the interior space. In the past, ‘DOMA’ can be used to place agricultural tools, and even used as a small workplace by the craftsmen. In modern residential buildings, ‘DOMA’ has been changed to an entry...
Architecture firm
KiKi ARCHi + TAKiBI
Principal architect
Yoshihiko Seki
Design team
Saika Akiyoshi, Akihiko Tochinai, Kiyo Sato
Material
Pine, Concrete, Steel, Cork Board, Cement Siding Board, FRP
Typology
Residential › House
Changing balance between nature and architecture. A tower building designed as a result of a central living- natural core. A tree structure in its heart for the collection of energy and resources, vertical farming and a house for different birds.
Project name
Tree tower- Archi-nature co-existing
Architecture firm
Moshe Katz Architect
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Lumion
Principal architect
Moshe Katz
Visualization
Moshe Katz Architect, Itamar Nevo- Inndesign studio
Status
Unbuilt / Preliminary Design
Typology
Residential › Apartment
