Ryota Sekiya

Schemata Architects reimagines machiya house with metal awnings for Uchida Shōten HQ

Local studio Schemata Architects drew on historic townhouses when creating this office along Japan's Tōkaidō road, which features a corrugat

How Japanese Spatial Design Reshaped a Plateau Family Home

Japanese Studio Creates Moss-Covered Earthen Roof Waiting Area for Tea Room

Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has completed a waiting area for the Sekiyuan tea room in Chiba, Japan, sheltering it with a textured roof of mortar and

Architect Keiji Ashizawa Designs Family Home with Wooden Louvres in Tokyo's Minami-Azabu Neighborhood

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as "solving a puzzle" when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden lou

YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors

Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its interiors and improvin

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 "