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Japan Buildings / Architects, alphabetical:

Airspace Tokyo, Kitamagome Ota-ku district
2007
Studio M with Thom Faulders
four storey multi-family dwelling unit with photography studios
open-celled meshwork : dual-layered skins constructed of aluminum & plastic composite material.
Building design: Hajime Masubuchi/Studio M in Japan
Screen design: Thom Faulders, with Proces2 Design in San Francisco

Billboard building – housing block
2005
klein dytham architecture

C1 House
2005
Curiosity / Milligram Studio

Chiaroscuro House
1993
Ushida Findlay Architects

Chokaso
1985-87
Kisho Kurokawa

Crystal brick house – housing
2004
Atelier Tekuto

Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Tokyo housing

Dior Omotesando - Dior Store Tokyo
2003
SANAA Architects

Echo Chamber
1989
Ushida Findlay Architects

French School Lycee Franco Japonais
-
albert abut architecture

picture from albert abut architecture
French School Lycee Franco Japonais

Gotoh Museum
-
David Chipperfield, Architects

Grosvenor Place Kamizono-cho - apartments, Yoyogi Park
2009
Paul Davis + Partners / Yasui Architects & Engineers Inc

photo : Harunori Noda
Grosvenor Place Kamizono-cho

Harajuku Church
2005
Henri Gueydan

House in a Plum Grove
2003
SANAA

The Iceberg, Shibuya-ku district
2006
CDI Aoyama Studio - Benjamin Warner

Industrial Designer House
2007
Koji Tsutsui

picture : Masao Nishikawa
Contemporary Tokyo home

Issey Miyake shop
-
David Chipperfield, Architects

Japanese Red Cross Society - Tokyo Headquarters
1975-77
Kisho Kurokawa

Juicy House - housing
2005
Atelier Bow-Wow

Leaf Chapel, Yamanashi, nr Tokyo
2004
klein dytham architecture

picture from kda
Leaf Chapel Yamanashi

Lotus House, nr Tokyo
2005
Kengo Kuma & Associates

Magritte’s House
2005
Atelier Tekuto

Mid Town Tower, Minato-ku
2007
Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
248m high

Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills
2004
Gluckman Mayner
50 storeys high, world’s highest art gallery

Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills
-
Kohn Pedersen Fox
54 storeys

Moriyama House – housing
2005
Ryue Nishizawa

Murai Masanari Art Museum
2006
Kengo Kuma & Associates

Nakagin Capsule Tower, Ginza
1970-72
Kisho Kurokawa

National Gallery in Tokyo, Roppongi
2000-05
Kisho Kurokawa

National Gymnasium, Yoyogi Park
1961-64
Kenzo Tange

The National Institute for Japanese Language, Tachikawa
2004
Maki And Associates

Natural Science Museum
2004
Tezuka Architects

NHK broadcasting tower, Sumida
2007-10
-
Site: Tobu Railway Company railyard
Tokyo Tower - this is a major skyscraper project

Nihonbashi 1- Chome
2006
KPF
20 storeys, mixed-use development

O Residence
1997-99
Kisho Kurokawa

Parabola
2008
Atelier Tekuto

Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
Tokyo house

Reflection of Mineral
2008
Atelier Tekuto

Architect : Yasuhiro Yamashita (Atelier Tekuto) Photographer : Makoto Yoshida
New Tokyo house

Saint-Gobain Headquarters, Kojimachi
2000
albert abut architecture

Saint-Gobain building

Shin-Marunouchi Building, Marunouchi district
2001-07
Hopkins Architects
198m high

TBWA\Hakuhodo offices
2007
Klein Dytham architecture

photograph : Kozo Takayama
Tokyo offices

TOD, Shibuya-ku
2004
Toyo Ito & Associates

Tokyo City Hall, Tower I, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
1991
Tange Associates
243m high

Tokyo Club building
2005
Yoshio Taniguchi

Tokyo International Forum
1989-96
Rafael Vinoly Architects

Tokyo Matsuya Unity, Higashiueno, Taitou-ku
-
Hugo Kohno / Hugo Kohno Architects Associates

photo : Isao Imbe
Tokyo Matsuya Unity

Tokyo Tower, Minato-ku
1958
Nikken Sekkei Ltd. with Tachu Naito
333m high, based on Eiffel Tower, 30 higher

Tokyo University Library
2007
Shigeru Ban

Truss Wall House, Machida-city
1993
Ushida Findlay Architects

United Bamboo Store, Daikanyama
2003
Acconci Studio

Tokyo Clothes Shop

Vertical Horizon, Tokyo
1991
Ushida Findlay Architects

Wacoal Kojimachi Building
1982-84
Kisho Kurokawa

Yokohama International Port Terminal
2002
Foreign Office Architects

photograph via RIAS
Yokohama International Port Terminal



Tokyo Houses

Fumihiko Maki

Modern Japanese Building:
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
1959
Le Corbusier

Millennium Tower

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Tadao Ando

Japanese architect studio : Toyo Ito



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