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Why there's a small area of blue in Greenland?
09/07/2026

Why there's a small area of blue in Greenland?

Soto Architects, Tsuzumi House, Tokyo, Japan 2026.https://www.keitarchitect.com/houseoftaiko"Tsuzumi HouseHouse of Tsuzu...
09/07/2026

Soto Architects, Tsuzumi House, Tokyo, Japan 2026.

https://www.keitarchitect.com/houseoftaiko

"Tsuzumi House
House of Tsuzumi (Taiko Drum House)
The site on which this house stands is surrounded by large buildings that are not on a residential scale, making it difficult to ensure privacy. Lighting simulations revealed that direct sunlight only reaches the site between 8:00 and 13:00. On the other hand, there is an elementary school to the north, and there is an unobstructed view from the site to the schoolyard. This house was designed to address three issues simultaneously: protecting privacy from the surroundings, impressively incorporating the limited amount of light into the building, and creating an unobstructed view towards the schoolyard. The building was concealed in a drum-like shape. The concave exterior simultaneously creates two recesses inside. Each recess is designed as a "place to dwell," and the design envisions a lifestyle that moves with the position where the light falls.
The building's exterior draws inspiration from the exteriors of buildings scattered throughout the city, giving it the appearance of a factory or an apartment complex. Just as a drum amplifies sound with its shape, this building becomes a device that amplifies the limited light and fills the interior."

Photographs by Jumpei Suzuki. https://www.jumpeisuzukiphotography.com/

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The black box. An extension to a private house.Tomoaki Uno, Shironishi Office, Nagoya, Japan 2025.https://unotomoaki.com...
09/07/2026

The black box. An extension to a private house.

Tomoaki Uno, Shironishi Office, Nagoya, Japan 2025.

https://unotomoaki.com/

https://www.thisispaper.com/mag/shironishi-office-tomoaki-uno-architects

Text from Thisispaper article.

"On a corner plot in Nagoya, Tomoaki Uno Architects builds Shironishi Office as a box of bare steel left to rust, part workplace, part hobby room, part indoor ball court for the client's three children.
Shironishi Office occupies a corner plot in a mixed residential block of Nagoya, 80 square metres of it, next door to the concrete house the same client commissioned from Tomoaki Uno roughly a decade ago. The brief asked for a workplace and, with equal weight, for somewhere to keep hobbies and let three children loose. The client fishes, so the programme took in a kitchen for preparing the catch, and a sauna.

The children set the harder constraint. They wanted to play catch indoors and throw a ball against the wall for baseball practice, so the partition walls on either side of the interior are steel plate 30mm thick, heavy enough that a hardball comes back with force. A basketball hoop was on the list too, and the section was raised to take it. What looks like severity is closer to permission: a room detailed so that nothing in it can be broken.

None of it was meant to look this way. The scheme was timber framed and all but finished when, at a late meeting, the client pointed to the wood-burning stove standing on the terrace of the house and asked, “Mr Uno, could you make a building that will rust like that?” Uno proposed starting the design again from scratch. Replacing timber with steel was not a change of appearance. It was an attempt to draw time into the material and to treat the building as something in continual change.

What went up is a box of hot-rolled plate, mill scale still clouding across the panels in grey and blue, the rolling mill's stencilled markings left where the sheets arrived. Exposed flanges divide each elevation into bays, a folded steel angle caps the parapet, and the doors are flush plate with turned bar handles. One face catches the afternoon sun and reads almost silver while the return stays the colour of wet slate. Rust is coming up through both at its own pace.

Inside, everything is black plate and pale concrete, crossed overhead by threaded tie rods that meet in shallow V's above a mezzanine. Square steel shafts set in a grid pull daylight down from the skylights, though brightening the room was never the point. Uno wanted to see what scene sunlight would make once it had passed through them, and calls the device a wind instrument of light: illumination falling through the shafts, and finer patterns in the gaps between the uprights, shifting with the hour, the season and the weather.

Almost a year after completion the steel is still turning. Uno's argument is that a building is wrongly treated as most itself on handover day and then held there indefinitely, when what wind, rain, light and air etch into it over the years is the value rather than the defect. A stove burns on the concrete floor and the wall behind it darkens. The building the client asked for is the one that keeps changing."

Photographs by Nathanael Bennett.

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More Neo-neo-brutalist architecture from the Republic of Korea.BCHO Architects, BE-Twixt, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2006....
09/06/2026

More Neo-neo-brutalist architecture from the Republic of Korea.

BCHO Architects, BE-Twixt, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2006.

www.bchoarchitects.com/ws/projects/be-twixt

"BE-Twixt, defined a midpoint between two places, is two shifting volumes around an open center with connecting bridges.
The massive perimeter is divided into smaller volumes once you enter the narrow entryway leading to the stair and elevator. Natural light is able to bounce from the glass windows all the way to the bottom of the entry space, which also provides natural ventilation into the center of the building.
The hallways on both sides of this central circulation space are day-lit and help the students stay oriented. The 4소 and 5소 levels have private exterior gardens and decks. This provides the work and education spaces a direct connection to natural air and light which is helpful to keep teachers and students attentive."

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"GRAVITY MATTERS is a workshop led by Ambra Fabi, Giovanni Piovene and Jean-Benoît Vétillard (ENSA Paris-Est) as part of...
09/04/2026

"GRAVITY MATTERS is a workshop led by Ambra Fabi, Giovanni Piovene and Jean-Benoît Vétillard (ENSA Paris-Est) as part of WAVe 2026 at IUAV.

The workshop reflects on gravity, the force that, more than any other, governs our relationship to the world, to objects, and to one another.
1: GRAVITY Each group produces three models of the same assigned building with different materials (paper, wood, plaster) and different weights (100g, 500g, 1kg). The match between material and weight determines the models’ scale.
2: BALANCE Students rethink the building as a lightweight and dynamic structure capable of interacting with air, wind, and movement.
3: FLIGHT Students test the objects under real conditions, produce a graphic and photographic archive, and construct a collective exhibition.

Collaborators: Diego Perini, Federico Vascotto. WAVe Scientific Coordinators: Michel Carlana, Simone Gobbo

Students: Giulia Andriollo, Stella Anesi, Melissa Baroni, Chiara Bertoli, Edoardo Boato, Maria Boiko, Eleonora Bosa, Lucia Brassini, Giulia Bruno, Giacomo Cavarzan, Maria Cettolo, Pietro Contin, Alessandro Cristofari, Antonia vittoria Dal Vera, Federica Davanzo, Enrico De Bettin, Antonino De Luca, Andrii Dudiak, Tommaso Franceschi, Margherita Gallo, Sebastiano Gambillara, Edoardo Giacomelli, Gianluca Giacon, Giulio Gregoriani, Sara Holler, Sofia Ingenito, Sofia Lanzarin, Luca Lievore, Arturo Longheu, Sebastiano Maceria, Paolo Maschio, Alessandro Mattivi, Giovanni Merlo, Matilde Narduzzo, Francesca Pegoraro, Gabriela Penati Ferreira, Gloria Povegliano, Anna Prizzon, Martina Righini, Gianluca Rinaldin, Giovanni Gabriel Rodaro, Daria Rompato, Niccolò Sala, Gregorio Sandonà, Samuele Santolin, Emma Semino, Emma Siciliotto, Beatrice Simeoni, Aurora Speziali, Raul Nicolae Sucaciu, Gioia Todesco, Gabriele Tollardo, Aurora Tomic, Jacopo Marco Torresin, Nicolo Tulkens, Miriam Urso Miano, Inger van der Kemp, Elisa Verrastro, Elisa Zanchetta, Mattia Zocco"

https://piovenefabi.it/

https://www.jeanbenoitvetillard.com

Photographs by Sofia Tocca, sofiatocca.com/

https://wave.iuav.it/en/architecture

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09/03/2026

A post without images.

We clearly have a soft spot for Japanese architects. Here goes a list of 40 talented designers that we follow. Just slightly younger than Atelier Bow Wow, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto or Junya Ishigami.
We welcome suggestions, as we know there are 200 other architects as great as these ones.

Tsuyoshi Tanehttps://at-ta.fr/
Hideyuki Nakayama, https://hideyukinakayama.com/
Suzuko Yamada, https://suzukoyamada.com/
Tsubame Architects, https://tbma.jp/en/
Kohei Kudo, https://www.koheikudo.com/
Chie Konno, https://teco.studio/
O+H, https://www.onishihyakuda.com/
Tezzo Nizhizawa, https://tezzonishizawa.com/
Noriyuki Nousaku + Mio Tsuneyama, http://fuminori-nousaku.site/
Erika Nakagawa, http://erikanakagawa.com/
Keisuke Kiri, https://www.kiri-architects.com/
Fujiwa Labo, https://fujiwalabo.com/
Tomohiro Hata, https://www.koheikudo.com/
not, https://www.tomiarc.com/
Kumiko Inui, https://www.inuiuni.com/about-en
Ari Iirie, https://www.ariiirie.com/
YKAA, https://yk-archi.com/
Kimura Matsumoto, https://kmrmtmt.com/
OFEA, https://www.ofea.jp/
Kurosawa Kawara-ten, https://kurosawakawaraten.com/
Taichi Mitsuya, http://www.mtytic.com/
Tamotsu Ito, https://www.tamotsuito.com/
MA-Style, https://www.ma-style.jp/
Schemata, https://schemata.jp/
Unemori Architects, https://unemori-archi.com/
Ippei Komatsu, https://kmta.jp/
Takashi Suo, https://suosuo.jp/
Yusuke Komata, http://newbldg.jp/ or https://www.instagram.com/yusuke_komata/
Yasutaka Yoshimura, https://www.yasutakayoshimura.com/
dot architects, https://dotarchitects.jp/
Ryuji Fujimura https://ryujifujimura.jp/en/
Ultra studio https://ultrastudio.jp/
Yu Momoeda https://www.yumomoeda.com/en/
Tato Architects https://tat-o.com/
Kiyoaki Takeda https://www.kiyoakitakeda.com/
Korogaro Association, https://korogaro.net
Rui Itasaka, https://ruiitasaka.ooo
Archi Hatch, https://archihatch.com
Ippei Takahashi, https://www.takahashiippei.com/

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