TAKATINA Black Box house in Tokyo suburbs is wrapped by corrugated dark metal cladding
TAKATINA’s Black Blox house is a dark cladded monolith encasing a light-filled loft with a private garden in Tokyo residential suburbs.
Archipanic sneaks a peek in the mother of all Tokyo capsule hotels: the iconic and neglected Nagakin Capsule Tower
From postwar never-realized urban visions to fancy sleeping pods. The history of Tokyo capsule hotels starts from the endangered Nakagin Capsule Tower photographed by Noritaka Minami.
Where They Create: Paul Barbera photographs Japanese creativity in the making
Where They Create photo essays by Paul Barbera explores working spaces and daily routines of 32 leading Japanese creatives such as Tadao Ando, Nendo and Schemata Architects.
Shigeru Ban’s CARTA collection for wb form is made of cardboard tubes
The CARTA collection by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban features tables, stools, chairs and chaise lounges made of paper tubes used to store architectural drawings and birch plywood frames.
M+ showcases the past and present of Asian design with the Shifting Objectives exhibition in Hong Kong
From post-war Japan to Mao China and post-independence India but also furniture icons and the challenges of contemporary Asian design. The Shifting Objectives exhibition at M+ Museum for Visual Culture looks into the continent’s history as well as its evolution from a design point of view.
Kengo Kuma designs Folk Art Museum in Hangzhou as a traditional Chinese village
Grey tiled pitched roofs merge with a green hilly panorama. From above Kengo Kuma’s China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum looks like traditional Chinese village.
Tokyo-lization: Daigo Ishii+Future-scape merges Japanese urban features with world cities’ architecture
Daigo Ishii+Future-scape architects present the Tokyo-lization project that mesh Tokyo urban features with the ones of Venice, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen and La Paz to show how our idea of locality have become more fragile.
Building Far East metropolises: over-densified architecture from Seoul to Hong Kong
How can architects help to improve people’s lives in growing Far East metropolises? Four exhibitions reflect on on a massive challenge that comes packed and piled to the extreme.
Eight fronts, battlefronts and frontiers on show at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Which are the fronts that architects can tackle in order to improve people’s life? We examine eight fronts and key topics explored by must-see exhibitions at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
Glass molecules inspire Asahi Glass Company “Amorphous” installation in Milan
NOSIGNER™ designs “Amorphous” installation for Asahi Glass Company: thousands of suspended fragments highlight the cutting-edge features of smartphones’ ultimate high-tech glass.
Nendo designs transparent rocking horse for Kartell
Nendo’s H-Horse for Kartell is a transparent rocking horse that combines plastic transparency with the strength of architectural I -or H- shaped beams.
COS presents Sou Fujimoto’s Forest of Light installation in Milan
Sou Fujimoto designs Forest of Light installation for fashion brand COS: cones of light interact with visitors in a suspended and misty atmophere.
Nendo creates 50 Manga chairs for Friedman Benda exhibition at Milan Design week
Inspired Japanese manga comics, Nendo created a series of 50 chairs that translate GULP!, BANG, SLURP and BOING into furniture design.
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris… What happens when architects and skaters team up to make cities friendlier?
Iittala and Issey Miyake present a home collection for everyday rituals
Minimal and simple home collection by Iittala with fashion designer Issey Miyake highlights Japan and Finland increasingly similar aesthetics.
Urban bird nest amplifies birds’ tweet to improve cities’ soundscapes
“Orator” urban bird nest by Katia Tolstykh features a copper trumpet-like speaker to soothe metropolitan noise with amplified chirps and tweets.
Tsumiki: Japanese Lego by Kengo Kuma and Ryuichi Sakamoto
With Tsumiki, Kengo Kuma and Ryuichi Sakamoto launch an interactive Japanese Lego game that allows kids to express their architectural skills.
Philippe Gravier invites for a tea with Kengo Kuma
Poets and warriors from ancient Japan inspire mobile tea rooms by Kengo Kuma.
Nendo designs Border Table, a sketch-like furniture installation for Eye of Gyre gallery
Border Table sketch-like designs by Nendo are tailored to fit and run across the contours of Eye of Gyre gallery in Tokyo.
Atsushi Kitagawara designs Japan Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015
Japan Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015 features an wooden grid made without nails or bolts. Architect Atsushi Kitagawara combined ancient construction methods with the latest technologies whilst Nendo and TeamLab powered up the exhibition with stunning designs.
Architecture of Milan Expo 2015
At Milan Expo 2015 international architects designed sustainable and temporary national pavilions in name of the fair motto “Feed the planet”.
AGC launches high-tech glass re-projecting see through videos
In Milan, AGC showcases a mesmerizing installation featuring high-tech glass panels with an innovative technology that allows to capture projected videos and display see-through moving images.
Chocolate Design by Nendo
Can shape and texture effect flavours? ArchiPanic met Oki Sato founder of Nendo and Maison&Objet designer of the year who presented a chocolate design project in a chocolate chill out lounge.
Cafe Ki: minimal urban forest in Tokyo by id inc.
In Tokyo, id inc has designed Cafe Ki: a minimal urban forest combining a pure white space with stylized coffee coloured tree.
Free Standing Stay-Brella
Nendo designed a standing-up umbrella with a two-forked handle that allows also multiple positions when not in use.
Water poetries
Artists and designers took inspiration from the falling of a drop of water and gave shape to mesmerizing creations that reflect upon one of Nature most elementary yet foundamental acts.
Architectural BUS:STOP
Instead building futuristic skyscrapers in fancy architectural hot-spots, seven international studios designed archi-bus-stops plunging into the alpine culture of a picturesque village in Austria.
Intertwined tension
Japanese designer Jun Murakoshi presented BLOOM a delightful collection of vases that plays with a warm tension between blown-glass and cotton thread.
Contemporary Furoshiki
Internationally renowned designers reinterpreted furoshiki millenary tradition with contemporary aesthetics at TOKYO IMAGINE event.
LIGHT IS TIME by CITIZEN
Citizen debuts at Milan Design Week with “LIGHT is TIME”, a mesmerizing installation at Triennale developed by Tsuyoshi Tane of DGT Architects together with CITIZEN’s in-house design team.