Zuishoji Temple
Tokyo, Japan, 2019
Zuisho-ji Temple (Minato-ku, Tokyo) is the first temple in Tokyo of the Obaku Sect, one of the Zen Buddhist schools brought to Japan by t...
V&A Dundee
Dundee, Great Britain, 2018
Located along the waterfront in the city of Dundee in the northern part of Scotland, this museum is a branch of the Victoria & Albert...
China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum
Hangzhou, China, 2015
The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and China Academy of Art in Hangzhou serve a central role in the field of art educatio...
Nagaoka City Hall Aore
Niigata, Japan, 2012
With the growth of cities and their scale, public buildings of 20th Century were likely to be driven away to the suburbs, often as isolat...
Besançon Art Center and Cité de la Musique
Francia, 2012
Besançon is an important city of Eastern France, which is renowned among other things for the Seiji Ozawa being awarded the Grand ...
Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
Tokyo, Japan, 2012
In the corner premise of just 326㎡ across Kaminari-mon Gate, the building was required to accommodate plural programs such as tourist inf...
Xinjin Zhi Museum
Chengdu, China, 2011
This pavilion is located at the foot of Laojunshan mountain in Xinjin, to usher in the people to the holy place of Taoism, while the buil...
Stone Roof
Nagano, Japan, 2010
Using different natural materials in gradation could create an organic and fluid space. Different materials here are stone (granite) and ...
Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
Kochi, Japan, 2010
We adopted a unique cantilever bridge design for this structure, a traditional technique that has been forgotten in Japan. The structure ...
Glass Wood House
Conneticut, USA, 2010
This is a project in Connecticut (US) to repair a residence designed by Joe Black Leigh, and add a new house to the site. New Canaan is k...
Prostho Museum Research Center
Aichi, Japan, 2010
Design of this structure consisted of taking on the challenge of creating a medium scale wood structure built by combining small sections...
Shimonoseki-shi Kawatana Onsen Koryu Center
Yamaguchi, Japan, 2009
This organic building is located on a site surrounded by mountains, and has a shape like that of a mountain in order to achieve harmony b...
Nezu Museum
Tokyo, Japan, 2009
For this renewal of a historic museum in Tokyo, we attempted to conceive of the museum as an urban design rather than just an individual ...
Garden Terrace Nagasaki
Nagasaki, Japan, 2009
One of our biggest challenges in this project was to integrate three entirely different volumes – a big box, a small box, and a lin...
Suntory Museum of Art
Tokyo, Japan, 2007
This entire building is covered with vertical louvers made of white ceramic panels. We chose this material based on the image of earthenw...
Chokkura Plaza
Tochigi, Japan, 2006
A project to create a new station plaza that would play a leading role in the community activities, centered round an old storehouse, an ...
Lotus House
Eastern Japan, Japan, 2005
This house sits beside a quiet river, deep in the mountains. My concept for the project was to lay waterways between the river and the ho...
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
Nagasaki, Japan, 2005
This museum is located in Nagasaki, the only port that remained open to international trade throughout the Edo period, when Japan was clo...
Plastic House
Tokyo, Japan, 2002
I have employed plastic for the project, the house for a mother (writer) and a son (photographer). The dwelling stands in the cente...
Great (Bamboo) Wall
Beijing, China, 2002
In this project, ten Asian architects were commissioned to design ten residences each, creating one hundred structures that together make...
Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art
Tochigi, Japan, 2000
This museum is dedicated to the works of the famous Ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige Ando. The design represents an attempt to materialize in arc...
Stone Museum
Tochigi, Japan, 2000
The Stone Museum reuses 80-year-old stone buildings that were utilized to store rice as display space for arts and crafts made from...
Water / Glass
Shizuoka, Japan, 1995
The design of this villa was influenced greatly by “Hyuga” Villa, the sole project which Bruno Taut had left in Japan. ...