Keiji Ashizawa creates holiday home within historic machiya

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original layout and the "sense of time embedded within the building" while giving it a contemporary update. The studio renovated the two-storey building in Kyoto's central Shimogyo Ward, while retaining original details such as its raised entrance, known