Y-3 / Komada Architects’ Office

Posted on marzo 7, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Komada Architects’ Office
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Architects: Takeshi Komada, Yuka Komada
Consultant: Yasushi Moribe
Area: 326.6 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Toshihiro Sobajima

It is the lease collective housing built in Uehara, Shibuya-ku near by downtown of Tokyo. It aims at offering the open and free places fit for the state of new city privacy.

By hollowing a lattice-like walls at intersections, we make various and rich spaces in the limited interior. And the perimeter paneled by an aluminum sash altogether is to produce the relation of “to see and to be seen” with the town.

Y-3 / Komada Architects' Office originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 07 Mar 2013.

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T2 Retail Shop / General Design

Posted on enero 2, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: General Design
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Shin Ohori
Area: 99 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Daici Ano

This project consist in two leaning buildings for retail shop.

The shape of the buildings is a result of aiming at a strong volume with a sense of existence while applying to the architecture regulatory control.

T2 Retail Shop / General Design originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 02 Jan 2013.

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T2 Retail Shop / General Design

Posted on enero 2, 2013 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: General Design
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Shin Ohori
Area: 99 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Daici Ano

This project consist in two leaning buildings for retail shop.

The shape of the buildings is a result of aiming at a strong volume with a sense of existence while applying to the architecture regulatory control.

T2 Retail Shop / General Design originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 02 Jan 2013.

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Starbucks Espresso Journey / Nendo

Posted on octubre 18, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Nendo
Location: Omotesando, ４丁目-３ Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Daici Ano, Hiroshi Iwasaki

A pop-up shop dedicated to Starbucks’ espresso drinks, in which visitors can learn more about drinks like lattes, cappuccinos and cafe mochas. We designed the space to be like a library, with bookshelves.

On the shelves, we positioned books with covers in nine different colors. Each color of book corresponds to a different espresso drink. Visitors can stroll around the space, freely pulling books off the shelves to read and choose the drink that best suits them.

At the counter, visitors can trade the book for an actual espresso drink, but retain the book cover which tells them about the drink they have chosen, to use as a book cover, as they like. The reverse side of the book cover has been punched into a tall or short size tumbler insert, which can be used in a Starbucks Create Your Own Tumbler.

The ‘library’ invites visitors to choose an espresso drink as they would a book, and verse themselves in espresso drinks as though quietly entering into a fictional world.

Books and coffee are both important parts of everyday life, so we created a link between favorite books and favorite coffees.

Starbucks Espresso Journey / Nendo originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 18 Oct 2012.

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Sunwell Muse Kitasando / Takato Tamagami

Posted on julio 7, 2012 by :: noticias arquitectura ::

Architects: Takato Tamagami Architectural Design
Location: Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Masaya Yoshimura

Project Area: 221.0 sqm
Total Floor Area: 992

This is a building of a textile planning and trading company which handles the entire process from the production to retail.

The site is well located on the corner plot near the fashionable city “Harajuku”. The client had been focusing on female apparel business, so the concept of our building design which is a metaphor of female beauty was suitable for them to put across their corporate identity.

The components that characterizes this architecture are the two curved surface walls which dominate the entire space.

These two walls form a shortcut path which connects the roads in front of each side of the corner plot. This path which looks like a narrow alley or the bottom of a ravine leads visitors inside the building, to the event hall in the basement and the showrooms on the first and second floors.

The curves used in the elevation surfaces on the north side and the east side represent those of a female body.

The graceful curved surface walls were created by connecting the curves with a straight line.

Plan, Elevation & Section 01

These curved walls are used as a motif of this architecture, and you can see them not only in the façade but also in the internal spaces on each floor.