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Fontworks Inc. Tokyo Head Office in Tokyo, Japan by PRISM DESIGN

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Article source: PRISM DESIGN

Fontworks Inc. moved its headquarters from Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, to Minato-ku, Tokyo, for the purpose of providing further communication business and expanding our business. Along with this, Fontworks worked on the design of a new office with PRISM DESIGN, an international design studio in Base Shanghai and Japan.

In 2018, when Fontworks celebrated our 25th anniversary, have formulated a tag line called “Character More Freely” with all our employees, and have been developing specific business activities over the past year. The fonts that Fontworks have consistently provided since our founding are also evolving at a tremendous speed in the environment in which they are used. From paper media to the on-screen era, there are also many such as AR / VR. It extends to dimensions. In addition to creating a typeface that is optimal for the environment in which characters are displayed, it is essential to develop technologies that take into account the environment of the customer being used.Even in the new office, Fontworks have set keywords such as “Fusion of analog and digital”, “fusion of creative and engineering”, “work while playing”, and “collaboration among employees” so that we can embody “Character More Freely” Made. The history cultivated in the past 25th anniversary, the future to be shaped in the next 25 years.

Image Courtesy © Katsumi Hirabayashi

  • Architects: PRISM DESIGN
  • Project: Fontworks Inc. Tokyo Head Office
  • Location: Nisshin Aoyama Building 5F, 3-4 Kita Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 107-0061
  • Photography: Katsumi Hirabayashi
  • Produce & Lead Designed by: PRISM DESIGN
  • Collaboration designed by: Design Studio GAKU
  • Construction by: SEMBA CORPORATION
  • Chalkboard Art by: CHALKBOY
  • Total Floor Area: 431sqm
  • Design Period: Feb.2019 – July.2019
  • Construction period: Aug.2019 – Dec.2019

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Hara house in Nagaoka, Japan by Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Article source: Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.

Hara house is located in the agricultural village of Tsurugasone, formerly known as Nakanoshima, in Nagaoka city, Niigata prefecture. The village is in the conventional Japanese village style wherein, a single estate contains an assemblage of buildings and farmland, that are inter-dependent on each other. This village is facing the same problems that many of Japan’s villages are facing; a rural decline, where new self-contained buildings superimpose themselves onto the land and create a larger and larger separation between the residents.

Eventually, the clients will inherit their large family estate which similarly, already has many built structure upon it such as the main family house, a work shed, parking area and a green house. Thus in this setting, our design direction was to create a building that revitalizes the structures already present onsite and have the potential to adapt to new functions as the need or mood arises.

Image Courtesy © Isamu Murai

  • Architects: Takeru Shoji Architects.Co.,Ltd.
  • Project: Hara house
  • Location: Nagaoka, Japan
  • Photography: Isamu Murai
  • Software used: Vectorworks
  • Project Architect: Takayuki Shimada(Takeru Shoji Architects.)
  • Structural Design: Tetsuya Tanaka(Tetsuya Tanaka Structural Engineers)
  • Contractor: Hirokatsu Yokoo(Yoshihara Gumi)
  • Total Floor Area: 166.24 sqm(including carport)
  • Completion: Feb.2019

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Hostel SUI in Kyoto, Japan by Alphaville Architects

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

Article source: Alphaville Architects

The guesthouse located in Nishijin Kyoto’s famed weaving district which is in the northwest part of central Kyoto and one of the most traditional areas of the city.

The client manages a cultural salon next to the site, at the same time works as diving instructor, therefore the guesthouse is being used for tourists and the guests of him who comes from far.

Image Courtesy © Kei Sugino

  • Architects: Alphaville Architects
  • Project: Hostel SUI
  • Location: Kyoto, Japan
  • Photography: Kei Sugino
  • Structural Engineer: Jun Yanagimuro
  • Site Area: 144.61 m2
  • Building Area: 72.27 m2
  • Total Floor Area: 144.54 m2
  • Complete: 2018

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Nanatsuji – Seven Ways in Tokyo, Japan by Ryuichi Sasaki/Sasaki Architecture+Takayuki Yagi/Yagi Komuten

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019

Article source: Ryuichi Sasaki/Sasaki Architecture+Takayuki Yagi/Yagi Komuten

Nanatsuji is a small three-storey wood framed structure sheathed in darkly matted, metal siding.  It is a new member to the Kojiya community, a friendly estuary town in South Tokyo.  In this slow but lively townscape, with sea breezes on the nose, one might easily forget this is part of one of the world’s largest megalopolises.  Bright and bustling with shoppers by day but a muted, gently lit refuge in the evening, it was a place to build with careful consideration for its history and community character.

Image Courtesy © Takumi Ota Photography

  • Architects: Ryuichi Sasaki/Sasaki Architecture+Takayuki Yagi/Yagi Komuten
  • Project: Nanatsuji – Seven Ways
  • Location: 2-39-9 Minamikamata, Ota-ku,Tokyo
  • Photography: Takumi Ota Photography
  • Client: Kuniaki Suzuki, Hifumi Maruyama
  • Building Area: 155.02m2
  • Site area: 73.24m2
  • Total area: 155.02m2
  • Structure: Wooden Structure, 3 Stories
  • Design Schedule: January 2017 to July 2017
  • Completion Date: December, 2017 (more…)

House in Higashimurayama, Japan by muraie

Sunday, December 8th, 2019

Article source: muraie

Concept

“The family’s pleasant sense of distance seen ahead of the low cost housing and sense of distance with a town”

This housing is a home in Iiduka where I’m a producer and am a designer.

Man of design office duties doesn’t have enough money. But though I offered a real estate and housing, I usually felt a doubt in contradiction one doesn’t possess. When some land was found in localness Higashimurayama-shi and the budget set was done on probation while spending such every day, cost per tsubo was to cut 600,000, and the income and expenditure plan they seem to reach somehow was being seen.

Image Courtesy © Naoto Matsuzaki

  • Architects: muraie
  • Project: House in Higashimurayama
  • Location: Higashimurayama, Japan
  • Photography: Naoto Matsuzaki
  • Producer: Keigo Iiduka (Muraie)
  • Architectural Design: Keigo Iiduka (Muraie)
  • Structural Design: Mika Araki (Jun Sato Structural Design Office)
  • Construction Management: Tuusaku Sekino (Sekino Architecture Office)
  • Lot Size: 82.39 m²
  • Construction Area: 32.79 m²
  • Total Floor Area: 62.92 m² (excluding loft area)

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Apartment MK in Kariya, Japan by 1-1 Architects

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Article source: 1-1 Architects

The site is in Kariya city, Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and there are many apartments to the concentration of affiliated companies of major automobile manufacturers in the surrounding area. On the other hand, many green spaces and fields like farm left for development by the Green Land Law remain. The owner has lived in this area for many years and has long been a landowner who owns this site and many others.

Image Courtesy © 1-1 Architects

  • Architects: 1-1 Architects (Yuki Kamiya+Shoichi Ishikawa)
  • Project: Apartment MK
  • Location: Kariya, Japan
  • Structure: Fujio and associates
  • Construction: Toyonaka Construction Co., Ltd
  • Site Area: 453.97 m2
  • Building Area: 103.33 m2
  • Total floor Area: 174.43 m2
  • Design Period: October 2016 – September 2018
  • Construction Period: October 2018 – June 2019

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Concrete Square Tube House in Kyoto, Japan by Eastern Design Office

Friday, November 29th, 2019

Article source: Eastern Design Office 

This house is located in a residential area in Kyoto City, Japan. It is not a historical district, rather modern houses, old wooden houses and middle size apartment houses are lined up side by side.  500 meter mountain range opens to the north and west side and cityscape faces to the south and east side.  Therefor it has a nice view from the 3rd floor.

This architecture is designed with concrete square tubes piled up in two lines up to four steps. The section of many square tube is the start of this design.

Image Courtesy © Koichi Torimura

  • Architects: Eastern Design Office
  • Project: Concrete Square Tube House
  • Location: Kyoto, Japan
  • Photography: Koichi Torimura
  • Structural Engineering: Ryoma Murata Building Studio Ltd.
  • Constructor: Fukasaka Co., Ltd
  • Site Area: 236.64m2
  • Total floor Area: 522.10m2
  • Completed: 2019

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KUAD, headquarters bldg. in Kyoto, Japan by K.ASSOCIATES/Architects Co., Ltd.

Thursday, November 28th, 2019

Article source: K.ASSOCIATES/Architects Co., Ltd.

KUAD*, formally known as Kyoto College of Art, was founded in 1977.

The old “Boutenkan”** was the original headquarters in the main campus of the old College, and this new architecture is, in fact, situated in the same location. The old alumni remember clearly, the impressive three-storied building with brown brick exterior that once stood there.

When the College was first opened, the old “Boutenkan” was used as the headquarters mainly by the administration body. But they moved to another building of classrooms as time went on, to be among classrooms. Now, this new building was aimed to be the core center of the current University: first to rebuild “Boutenkan” as the headquarters facility: and second, its well-planned plaza on the rooftop to serve as a focal place for the students to enjoy.

Bird’s eye view, Image Courtesy © Shigeo Ogawa

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Studio 080 in Tohoku, Japan by UNQUOTE

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Article source: UNQUOTE

The place is a suburb of Sendai city in Tohoku Japan. It is a roadside location along a national road. Connecting information and people is thought to be important about the new business. That’s why most shared offices are located in well-accessed areas to create a business community, in Tokyo. As a different approach, we have designed a shared office that moves objects and people, taking advantage of the characteristics of the building and the location. We thought about connecting with the share office function, leaving the warehouse function and the delivery yard function that the building originally had. Users have shared offices that can do everything from business start-up, production, and delivery of goods. The operation of the shared office is a logistics company in Sendai City and supports logistics operations that take into account even overseas expansion. It is a facility that aims to expand into the world from Sendai city in Tohoku Japan, a local city.

Image Courtesy © Atsushi Shiotani

  • Architects: UNQUOTE
  • Project: Studio 080
  • Location: Tohoku, Japan
  • Photography: Atsushi Shiotani
  • Clients: Maruyama Unso
  • Co-Design / Constructer: e-SOHKO Research Institute Inc.
  • Total Area: 760㎡

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BIFFI TEATRO di TSUMAGATA in Tokyo, Japan by HIRAMOTO DESIGN STUDIO

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Article source: HIRAMOTO DESIGN STUDIO

I designed a long counter table around an open kitchen, inspired by Japanese Sushi/Teppan-yaki counter, giving diners a front-row view of all the chefʼs activities. It is like a theater, and I named it “TEATRO” that means “theater” in Italian. I designed indirect lighting with a steel grid over the counter table, so the lighting shines onto the basement floor like sunshine. A wall of steel shelves between the restaurant and the bar sometimes interrupts and sometimes passes the view to each diner, so the wall forms a tie, whilst cutting space. I tried to design a pleasing space where elegance and relaxation come together well, by using some materials which are rustic but also elegant and simple in design.

Image Courtesy © Koji Fujii

  • Architects: HIRAMOTO DESIGN STUDIO
  • Project: BIFFI TEATRO di TSUMAGATA
  • Location: 4-19-21, Shirokanedai, Mitato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Photography: Koji Fujii
  • Total Floor Area: 159 sqm
  • Client: MONO EDITION CO.,Ltd.
  • Construction: KAWAHARA GIKEN CO.,LTD

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