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Architects: YASUI HIDEO ATELIER
- Area: 423 m²
- Year: 2011
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Professionals: Sasazawa Construction
Japan
Karuizawa Museum Complex / YASUI HIDEO ATELIER
AD Classics: Odate Dome / Toyo Ito & Associates
The Odate Dome in the Akita Prefecture of Japan was completed by Toyo Ito in June 1997. The project is another example of the architect's impressive canon, making use of cutting edge technology and bringing architecture closer to people. Seemingly floating a few meters above the ground, the dome leaves space for the people to flow in comfortably, while the use of wood is itself a way of bringing nature into architecture while adopting the latest technological advancements.
AD Classics: Yatsushiro Municipal Museum / Toyo Ito & Associates
The city of Yatsushiro is known in Japan as a home for exemplary architecture - the legacy at least in part of Artpolis, a plan by the government of the Kumamoto Prefecture to seek out a range of talented architects to design cultural buildings in the cities of the region. Though the Artpolis scheme has been running for the past 22 years, perhaps its most successful building was completed back in 1991, with the construction of Toyo Ito's Yatsushiro Municipal Museum.
AD Classics: White U / Toyo Ito & Associates
Toyo Ito was commissioned for this building by his older sister after her husband sadly lost his battle with cancer in the 1970s. Having lived for a number of years in a high-rise apartment, she and her two young daughters wished to move to a site which had more connection to the ground; as luck would have it, the site next to Ito's own house was being sold at the time.
AD Classics: Tower of Winds / Toyo Ito & Associates
The Tower of Winds is a project largely indicative of Toyo Ito's approach to architecture, particularly his belief in the importance of technology and its vital role in the future of architecture. The project not only embraces technology and involves it in a dialogue with the city, but also establishes a direct symbolic relationship between nature and the installation.
House in Sayo / FujiwaraMuro Architects
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Architects: FujiwaraMuro Architects
- Area: 81 m²
NN House / PANDA
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Architects: PANDA
- Area: 62 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: a・s・t atelier, AZ Construction
House in Sanbonmatsu / Hironaka Ogawa
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Architects: Hironaka Ogawa
- Area: 253 m²
- Year: 2011
Neut House / APOLLO Architects & Associates
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Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates
- Area: 115 m²
- Year: 2012
Slide / Komada Architects' Office
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Architects: Komada Architects' Office
- Area: 748 m²
- Year: 2009
Chiyodanomori Dental Clinic / Hironaka Ogawa
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Architects: Hironaka Ogawa
- Area: 383 m²
- Year: 2011
Y-3 / Komada Architects' Office
Forest Chapel / Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
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Architects: Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
- Area: 135 m²
- Year: 2011
Pleats.M / Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
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Architects: Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
- Area: 1398 m²
- Year: 2012
House In the suburb of Osaka / ANDO Corporation
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Architects: ANDO Corporation
- Area: 673 m²