Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has completed the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo , which is defined by curving roofs topped with greenery. Greenery and pathways top the sloping roofs According to the studio, Japanese developer Mori Building Company shared its desire to create publicly accessible green space.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The new home of the Pace Gallery in Tokyo will feature interior spaces designed by Sou Fujimoto inside a three-story portion of Heatherwick Studio ’s exciting new Azabudai Hills development, according to plans revealed today by the gallery. Rendering © DBOX for Mori Building Co.,

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Double-height balconies and outdoor teaching spaces enliven the facades of The British School in Tokyo, which architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has completed in Japan. Meanwhile, the stepped columns can be found all around the building.

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Archinect

JANUARY 17, 2024

Unique design born from the site’s characteristics This tenant office building is situated within the MEGURO MARC development district, located halfway between Meguro Station and Gotanda Station along the railway line in a convenient business area in Tokyo.

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Archinect

AUGUST 11, 2023

A Bangkok landmark known as the “robot building” has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city’s distinctive architecture to preserved. [.] Air rights can still be sold to developers, which are in part the target of reform efforts.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

Located in a park in the town of Miyoshi, the building has a wooden frame covered with rammed earth made with soil sourced from construction sites and mixed with hydrated lime. Until now, it had only been used as a roadbed material for pavement, but this is the first time it has been used as a building material."

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Designed by architects including Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma , the Tokyo Toilet project forms the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. The Tokyo Toilet project brings together 17 public toilets in the city's Shibuya district, created by architects and designers over the past six years.

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Archinect

JUNE 27, 2022

We are building forward-thinking workplaces for our clients under the motto "Creating a new work stage.". The Otemachi Building, which we moved in, was built in 1958 by Mitsubishi Estate, a major Japanese real estate developer, as the "largest office building in the Orient." FRONTIER CONSULTING Co.,

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2022

Architecture studio Pelli Clarke & Partners ' 330-metre-tall A District tower has topped out in central Tokyo , making it Japan's tallest building. Visuals show the completed A District, a tower in Tokyo that was designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners. It is the first thing visitors will see upon arrival in Tokyo.".

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Archinect

AUGUST 8, 2023

A New Global Hub for Accelerating Innovation Utilizing a former factory site in Kodaira City, Tokyo, this project aims to consolidate scattered functions in and outside the site and rebuild it as a global hub for creating new values.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Heatherwick Studio's design for its first building in South America , which was informed by indigenous weaving practices. Renderings of the seven-storey building planned for Bogotá in Colombia show a facade made of a series of colourful, undulating columns. Delicious or bland?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Located near New York's High Line, the 122-metre-high development by Danish architecture studio BIG comprises two twisting, condominium towers joined at their base. The development was designed to be "one of Tokyo's greenest urban areas".

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World Architecture Community

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Heatherwick Studio has built a new public development with "extraordinary, undulating, explorable roofs" in Tokyo, Japan. Named Azabudai Hills, the üa,âââ-square-metre scheme is made up of residential buildings, retail spaces, a sc.

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Archinect

MARCH 30, 2022

A 700-square-foot showroom and model home displaying Nexii’s building technology was constructed in 2019 near Vancouver to prove the buildability of the new material, which has far lower emissions than conventional concrete. The building will be reassembled next.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

UK designer Thomas Heatherwick 's studio has revealed plans for The British School in Tokyo, which will be the first school the practice has designed. Located in the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo's Minato City area, the 15,000 square-metre school was designed to give students access to numerous outdoor spaces.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The impacts encompass not only the physical encroachment of water onto land but also the destructive effects on infrastructure, buildings, open spaces, and the well-being of urban populations. Envisioning the Future: Flood Protection Infrastructure as Urban Catalyst Next Tokyo 2045 by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Tokyo, Japan.

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Hotel Designs

MARCH 5, 2024

With expansion and development gathering pace and showing no sign of slowing down anytime soon, there are a number of exciting markers with several shiny-new hospitality brands breaking into the market. Designed by Luis Bustamante, the hotel is a charming infusion of traditional design with modern and luxurious amenities.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A new district in the heart of Tokyo designed by Heatherwick Studio has been opened by the Prime Minister of Japan. The project, known as Azabudai Hills, is the culmination of a thirty-year regeneration process steered by Mori Building Co. Japan’s leading urban landscape developer. Source by Heatherwick Studio.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Tokyo Architecture News 2022, Japanese Building, Construction Design, Architect, Japan Property Updates. Tokyo Architecture News: Buildings. Contemporary Japanese Architectural Developments: New Built Environment Updates. Tokyo Architectural News. Location: Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku; Tokyo. 19 Dec 2022.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Japanese architecture and building formulae have long been revered by the West. For example, Tadao Ando, a vocal proponent of concrete, demonstrated the heavy material’s ability to embody lightness, and such explorations continue with today’s building community. Without further ado, here are the 30 best architecture firms in Japan: 30.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. Ah yes, the dystopian corporate hellscape building is finished," said Richard Nelson. "Do Do you like it, corporate overlords?" they asked.

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Architonic

DECEMBER 8, 2021

K5 Tokyo, housed in a converted 1920s bank building, sits beside the Tokyo Stock Exchange and connects the traditional Imperial Palace area with hip Eastern Tokyo.

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Hotel Designs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Hotel Designs The first Janu hotel prepares to make its mark on Tokyo The first Janu hotel prepares to make its mark on Tokyo Pioneering a new direction in luxury hospitality, Aman’s sister brand Janu is set to open its first hotel, Janu Tokyo, this autumn. Thirty years in-the-making, Azabudai Hills is an 8.1-hectare

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The Spaces

AUGUST 14, 2023

While tea has traditionally been the dominant beverage in Japanese culture, coffee has gained a strong foothold in recent decades, with the country’s coffee shops developing a distinct minimalist aesthetic. It’s into this fray Tearoom Nigo launches in Tokyo’s old town Asakusa with roots in both worlds.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta has designed an urban farm surrounded by three clubhouses for the Pavilia Farm residential development in Tai Wai, Hong Kong. The Tea House has a waterfall on the building's exterior. Read: Snøhetta unveils 36-storey "urban retreat" in Tokyo. metre-tall skyscraper in Tokyo.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

EPIQ, Ecuador, by BIG The EPIQ tower, a collaboration between Danish architecture studio BIG and Quito-based developers Uribe Schwarzkopf, features L-shaped stacked blocks that curve as they converge at the structure's centre. The form of the building was designed to mirror the staggered arrangement of its internal spaces.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2024

This week on Dezeen , plans were announced to expand the Hudson Yards development in New York with a series of supertall skyscrapers and a casino. Developer Related Companies and Wynn Resorts released a series of renderings showing what the potential skyscrapers could look like , following proposals submitted to the city in February.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo could soon be replicated in both real space and the metaverse , as its original architect Kisho Kurokawa 's studio is auctioning the rights to rebuild it. Launched on 22 July, the auction responds to the demolition of the iconic Japanese housing block , which is underway in Tokyo's Ginza neighbourhood.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week on Dezeen , aerial images showed construction progressing on projects involved in the Saudi mega-development Neom , including The Line megacity, Oxagon port and Sindalah island resort. Our latest lookbooks featured brightly coloured home renovations and playful houses with indoor slides.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that are a "background and foreground to everyday life". Yamamoto, who is the 53rd Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate and the ninth from Japan, was honoured for his buildings that aim to foster community.

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Architizer

MAY 31, 2023

Aesthetics fall in and out of favor, and correspondingly, buildings rise and fall. And who can forget Donald Trump’s 2020 executive order aligning “beautiful” federal buildings strictly with classical and traditional styles of architecture? Photo by: Kestrel , Capsule from Nakagin Capsule Tower Building DSCN0159 , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Architizer

APRIL 28, 2022

In Raymond’s words, “Wright had restated the principles of building; he had overcome the cell, liberated the plan, made space flow, given buildings a human scale and blended them with nature, all in a romantic, sensual and original way which left us breathless. Imperial Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright, Tokyo, Japan.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2023

We continued the Timber Revolution series by focusing on tall mass-timber buildings Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we looked at the growing trend for high-rise mass-timber buildings. metre-high Mjøstårnet tower in Norway , and rounded up the world's 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A cluster of buildings and courtyards that act as "a natural extension" of a mountain will define this campus expansion, which Dutch studio OMA is creating for Hongik University in Seoul. It is a building, a masterplan and landscape design all at once," he continued. "It The renders are by Negativ , courtesy of OMA.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2023

UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library , a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. Designed for Howard County Libraries, the plant-covered building would be located alongside Lake Kittamaqundi in the community of Columbia near Baltimore, which was developed in the 1960s.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2022

This week on Dezeen, US conservation group Docomomo rounded up 11 American buildings from the 20th century that are under threat of demolition. As many modernist, postmodernist and brutalist buildings are being raised to be replaced by new structures, twentieth-century architecture is increasingly under threat in the US. "It

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2022

As concepts such as digital twins – digitals replicas of buildings and cities – and the metaverse become more common, the interest in digital architecture seems to be increasing. Elevational comparison of Hanamasa minimart between real-world Tokyo and Persona 5. Assassin's Creed: Unity. "In Drawing by You+Pea. Dark Souls. Persona 5. "By

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