Today Japan is known for its minimalism and simplicity because of their Zen culture. But how to make a Zen-home in a girlish style? How to combine calmness and little sweet details? Here is a nice example how to do it. The interior is done in a truly Japanese way: with cherry blossoms, traditional colors,...
Tea House In A Peaceful Garden
When I look at this house, I think about tea ceremony in Japan or about meditations and renunciation of everything perishable. It’s called Hat Tea House and was created by A1 Architects in Ostrova, Czech Republic, but this time there is no modernism as in all other works by them. The area is small, just...
Stunning Japanese House Design with Rooftop Glass Bathroom
That isn’t the first stunning work by Suppose Design. They really enjoy to combine Japanese minimalism and natural plants in interior design and their latest work only prove that. Argo Egota is a three-storey building in Tokyo separated for several apartments with truly stunning rooftop bathroom with glass walls. This spa area is a centerpiece...
Japanese Townhouse With an Outdoor Deck On The Roof and a Two-Storey Courtyard
Renovated by Keiji Ashizawa Design studio, this house in Tokyo features a very interesting structure on the top of two-storey building that acts as an outdoor desk. Besides there is a double-height courtyard through the first and second floors that links the living and dining spaces to the outdoors. The bedrooms and bathrooms on the...
House with 9-Cars Garage and Lamborghini in the Living Room
This project has started with following request: “I want a 9 car garage and be able to enjoy viewing one of them in the living room.” Besides that the client wanted a tall tree in the living room too. Takuya Tsuchida, the architect of the KRE House, managed to fulfill both requestes. The site for...
Modern Japanese Inspired House Design – Zen Garden House
David Jay Weiner, Architects, P.C. was founded with a focus on design and planning with the intention of providing quality architectural services. Their project in the town of Crestone, Colorado is one of examples of their high quality works. With population of 800 people, Crestone become an enclave of spiritual retreats in a past few...
Contemporary AC House by Baqueratta
There was popular Japanese manga series in the mid 60’s to early 70’s where one character always was saying the word “Baqueratta”. Nowadays there is an architecture firm called Baqueratta in Tokyo led by Yoshiyuki Moriyama. They specialize in building contemporary minimalist small and middle sized residences. One of their latest works is AC House....
Passage Weekend House by TNA Architects
Japanese company TNA Architects mostly creates non-standard architecture projects. Although that could be not only unusually shaped houses like surrealistic house but also projects on rough landscape without changing it. Weekend house in Karuizawa is one of them. It was finished in 2008 on very steep slope almost without support. That was possible because of...
Surrealistic House in Japan
This house is build in Japan in 2006 by TNA Architects. It is 84.5 m² private residence consisting of 3 stories almost without straight lines and 90 degrees angles outside. The house is very minimalistic inside. Lack of furniture create feeling that the house is bigger than it is. From the outside the house looks...
Contemporary Japanese House Design – Boukyo House
Boukyo house is situated in Sapporo, Japan. The city is the most famous for hosting 1972 Winter Olympics and it’s also the fifth biggest city in Japan. The house is designed by Nakayama Architects. One of the project targets was to cover the maximum cubic meters that the budget will permit. The idea was to...