What do Family Restaurants and Workplace Design Have in Common? More Than You’d Think.When Kokuyo commissioned DDAA to design a workplace centred on learning, the Tokyo studio faced a key insight: you can't manufacture curiosity. Their solution drew from Japanese family restaurants—those 24-hour establishments where...
Tokyo Studio we+ Develops Natural Pigments from 2.7-Billion-Year Old Algae.Japanese design studio we+ continues their research-driven approach with SO-Colored, a project investigating microalgae's untapped colour potential. The initiative explores these 2.7-billion-year-old organisms as alternatives to synthetic...
Futurism and Footwear: Ura Tokyo by Insideout.An innate sense of tranquillity comes to the fore at Ura Tokyo. A veil of fluorescent lighting, pierced by a mirrored obelisk-like mass breaks the boundary between inside and out. Insideout’s key consideration was playing with extreme...
Yuma Kano Transforms Forrest Debris into a Sustainable New Material.Tokyo-based designer Yuma Kano has developed ForestBank, a unique and innovative material that looks to find new value in our forests. Yuma repurposes twigs, leaves, and branches, bound by a water-based acrylic resin, transforming them...
Opus Arisugawa Terrace & Residence in Tokyo by OEO Studio.OEO Studio has completed a renovation of a luxury apartment at the Opus Arisugawa Terrace & Residence in central Tokyo, Japan. The interiors reflect a cross-pollination of Japanese and Scandinavian design, drawing on inspiration from both...
The Upper in Tokyo by Luchetti Krelle.Luchetti Krelle channels a little bit of everything in The Upper, a double-billed restaurant destination held within the newly completed Marunouchi Terrace Tower of Tokyo’s downtown business district. Saturated colours mingle with...
80 Years of Eames Design Legacy Celebrated in a Tokyo Exhibition.To celebrate 80 years of prolific, multifaceted legacy of one of the most enduring duos of 20th Century design, the Eames Office presents an exhibition at Isetan’s gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition explores how the optimistic philosophies...
Living Room meets Nightclub at Warp Studio Office for Mitsui Fudosan by I IN in Tokyo.Tokyo-based design studio I IN have unveiled Warp Studio for Mitsui Fudosan, their concept for a new type of office space. The design marks a direct shift from a conventional office layout, where individual desks and separated cubicles...
K5 Tokyo Hotel by Claesson Koivisto Rune.Spread over 2,200square metres across 4 levels, K5 Tokyo is a mixed-use project comprising a hotel, restaurant, wine bar, coffee shop, cocktail bar & beer hall. Designed by Stockholm-based architects Claesson Koivisto Rune, the functions...
