Yuko Nagayama

Style & Design Oct 19, 2018

Designart Tokyo 2018 looks beyond 2021

by Mio Yamada

Designart, Tokyo's annual festival encompassing all creative genres, is a cornucopia of design-related presentations and exhibitions within galleries, shops and event spaces. Celebrating its second iteration at a larger scale this year, the festival has its eyes set on the future: beyond 2021 to ...

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 ...