This retreat house lies on a site of coastal town of Kamakura, Japan. Designed by London-based architecture firm Foster and Partners, this modern house is built for a prominent collector of Buddhist art. The house composition is in harmony with the Japanese architecture. The house comprised a gallery for displaying art works, a large function [...]
By freshome
– December 26, 2009
This is a successful renovation project of residential unit in Tokyo, Japan. Bakoko has completed a make-over of Matsudo Mansion from 70’s style to modern Japanese design. This 37 sqm apartment is using sliding doors to make larger functional space. There are some bright and fresh ideas applied in this modern interior such as the [...]
By freshome
– December 12, 2009
Engawa is a traditional Japanese design element that means wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional Japanese rooms. Recently this term has also come to mean the veranda outside of the room as well. This term is the basic of this long rectangular house. Actually the house is like a [...]
By freshome
– October 20, 2009
This contemporary house located in Nikko, Tochigi. Designed by Japanese architect, Katsutoshi Sasaki, this house has innovative roof that covered slanted-pentagon shape house. The roof extends from the top along the side house so the main building is bent and rolled. There are many various windows, doors and skylights provide lot of natural light can [...]
By freshome
– October 17, 2009
The Japanese architecture is brave and unique. You will never imagine living in this weird but wonderful Pyramid House. This modern house is set in a meter of pit, surrounded by planted lush landscape to provide privacy to the concrete main floor. This floor is sunk but still flooded with natural light through the ribbon [...]
By freshome
– October 15, 2009
This sweet home is only 480 sq. ft. Located in densely populated urban center of Tokyo, this small house is beautiful with its irregularly shape like a diamond. The box is twisted and folded and balanced on a single point at its base. Yasuhiro Yamashita as the architect of this Japanese modern house create an [...]
By freshome
– October 13, 2009
This building is a single family residence, located in Meiwamachi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Designed by Takao Akiyama, this modern house has built in two-story reinforced concrete construction. The house takes a 4,199 square feet site area with 1,593 square feet construction area. The total floor area of this house is 1,711 square feet with 1,066 [...]
By freshome
– October 12, 2009
The Zen Garden House is built for a Japanese client who inspired Weiner’s business roots in Tokyo. This 1,600 square-foot house features a Zen rock garden and mediation room. This modern minimalist house sited among the natural beauty of the tiny town of Crestone, Colorado within the San Luis Valley range. While his Weekend House [...]
By freshome
– September 13, 2009
This is a Japanese modern house whit the facades which are in wooden boards. In order to protect the house facades from the rain, the Shigemi House is built in unusual shape. The owner of the house has a timber company and wants to fill the home with the company’s product indoor and outdoor. This [...]
By freshome
– September 2, 2009
This modern house takes a site on a sloping site, and the rear half of the house is dug into the ground. The excavated earth being used as fill for the front half, creating a level floor. The roof of the house is flat and it is fixed rigidly to the upturned slab. This action [...]
By freshome
– August 11, 2009
The location of this nice house is in West of Hiroshima prefecture, on a high plateau that neighbors the Kamei Park of the Kamei Castle Ruins. The south of the site is an industrial region and a beautiful mountain range. While the North, a remarkable view of the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima can be [...]
By freshome
– August 9, 2009
This house is take place on the plan of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Brick Country House (1924) in Long Island, USA. The Sagaponac House is designed by Japanese Architect, Shigeru Ban to interprete according to program, structure and site. The house uses an improved version of the prefabricated Furniture House system. To prevent [...]
By freshome
– August 7, 2009
This modern house located in the shadow of Mount Fiji in Kawana, Japan. Designed by the world famous architect firm Foster + Partners, this house has fulfill the need of shelter for holiday. It designed as modern minimalist architecture with the touch of Japanese architecture style to create a unique home. The house has special [...]
By freshome
– July 22, 2009
This house located in a hill, and to relate it with the neighboring houses, it was placed along the site. The site is scraggly so where the site descends towards the cliff side, the house is lifted up. With unique structure and floor-to-ceiling windows, this house offers nice view to Sendai. Designed by Japanese Kiyonobu [...]
By freshome
– July 19, 2009
Located in Hyogo Prefecture, this house is designed for young couples. As sited in a residential area between the Hanshin Tigers, the house is surrounded by close neighbors. The structure of two storeys home is traditional wood construction. The house take 105.34m ² (31.86 square meters) floor area on the 119.89m ² (36,26 square meters) [...]
By freshome
– July 17, 2009
A modern minimalist house located on the edge of a beach offering beautiful view to the high seas. Designed by the Takao Shiotsuka Atelier architect firm, this house is using white color in almost all interior and exterior.
By freshome
– July 16, 2009
Create by Tekuto Architect , The site is located in a quiet residential area surrounded by nature. 6m in width and 27m in length, it is a long and narrow site, which has been constructed 3m above road-level so that on clear days, it enjoys views of Mount Fuji.
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– July 10, 2009
