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Architects: Akihisa Hirata
Location: Nigata, Japan
Program: Showroom, Office
Showroom H / Akihisa Hirata
Architects Website: www.hao.nu
Design Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2006
Site Area: 824 sqm
Constructed Area: 294.2 sqm
Photographer: Akihisa Hirata
This is the building for a showroom exhibiting small agricultural equipments. The structure is built by Akihisa Hirata and features building supports made by triangular concrete walls. The result makes for [...]
The Natural Cube House by Japanese architects Endoh Design boasts a unique facade of reinforced concrete on a 2,900-sq.-ft. site. The basic cube shape is enhanced with modern steel panels and uniquely uneven walls that create windows in a most nontraditional and unexpected way. As expected from the exterior design, the home’s interior continues on [...]
Artist Tetsuya Nakamura’s Premium Unit Series of curvaceous, luxury bathroom fixtures — a tub, a pair of sinks, a step designed for insertion into a stairwell, and a decorative column — are sculpted from fiber-reinforced plastic and painted with colorful, fluid patterns meant to evoke a sense of speed. Nakamura, who created the Premium Unit [...]
P BUILDING
BUILDINGS , 2004-2005
Collaboration with Ryuji Fujimura, Hirofumi Ohno(Structure)
Produced by Misawa Homeing Tokyo
P Building is a multi-tenants building, in planning stage in Tokyo, consists of eight leasable spaces, an office and residence of the building owner. The design of the leasable spaces is conceived by separating the space into the upper and lower layers where [...]