This washroom for a small park near Osaka, Japan uses enclosure to achieve both privacy and openness. There is no consideration for beam, wall, or ceiling, but the sheet metal material determines the form. The formal pathway breaks away at …
Category: Japan
(antjeverena– flickr/creative commons license) Ryue Nishizawa designed this unique and functional living space, the Moriyama House in Tokyo. These prefabricated boxes provide both private living and public communal space for multiple tenants. The steel compartments range from one to …
(Max Braun– flickr/creative commons license Just adjacent to the Aquarium in Kaiyukan Minato in Osaka’s Tempozan Harbour Village is the Suntory Museum. This project by Tadao Ando displays his classic relationship between human beings, water, and architecture. Each element, gallery,3D …
(brightsea– flickr/creative commons license) Here’s the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Japan, another reuse project, from an elementary school. The museum is divided into three programs: gallery, research, collection which includes a 40,000 volume “manga-wall.” Each space is carefully designed …
This is one of the largest public aquariums in the world, the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan 海遊館 designed by Peter Chermayeff. There are sixteen large walk-through tanks, the largest holding 5,400m2 of water. It’s located close to Osakako Station by …
(InfoMofo– flickr/creative commons license) Here’s Tokyo’s international theater space. A bus hub opens to a large public plaza full of art works. The theater’s enormous glass atrium attracts visitors inside, where they can choose from five different halls. The Tokyo …