Style & Design | ON: DESIGN Jan 27, 2019
by Mio Yamada
Now 2019 is in full swing, On: Design takes a final look at a few of 2018's end of year noteworthy prizewinners.
Style & Design | ON: DESIGN Jul 1, 2018
From Tokyo to London: This is the house that Japan built
by Mio Yamada
As London's new cultural hub of all things Japanese, Japan House London's minimalist interiors, striking central spiral staircase, displays of nnovative design, art and architectural works and classy top-floor restaurant impressively avoid the all-too-easy preconceptions about Japan.
Style & Design Apr 30, 2017
First Japan House opens in Brazil
by Danielle Demetriou
London, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo. There is little at first sight that seems to unite these three cities, which are diverse in geography and climate as well as architecture, cuisine and atmosphere. Yet these metropolitan hubs will soon be connected by one unexpectedly common thread ...
Style & Design Aug 20, 2016
Japan's architects are building a better future
by Mio Yamada
Home-security AI cats; talking walls equipped with motion sensors; communal-living apartment blocks that promote harmonious relations; and outdoor living-room spaces powered by solar energy siphoned off hybrid cars — these previews of our future, currently on display at "House Vision 2," sound like science ...
Style & Design Jan 4, 2014
Kenya Hara: the future of design
by Cameron Allan Mckean
Sitting at a plain white table in a meeting room high up on the 12th floor of a narrow building in central Tokyo, product designer Kenya Hara asks me to picture a shallow plate in my mind. "Now imagine a slightly deeper plate," Hara ...
Style & Design Nov 18, 2013
It's a dog's life, but architects can find ways to improve it
by Cameron Allan Mckean
What would our cities look like if they had been built with a different scale in mind? What if we considered building structures for creatures other than humans? "Architecture for Dogs" explores that idea with an exhibition of 13 architectural works made for specific ...
Lifestyle Mar 6, 2013
Awakening the desire for a home with personality
by Edan Corkill
Bored with run-of-the-mill suburban Japanese apartments? Perhaps putting the grand piano in the center of the living room would improve the situation.