A traditional theater provides a family of Noh practitioners with space to perform their classical art form. The home’s Noh stage is constructed of hinoki cypress. On the back wall, Kagami-ita—which ...

For the past two decades, Ramdane Touhami and his wife, Victoire de Taillac-Touhami, have led a nomadic life, popping up in London; Paris; Jaipur, India; and Tangier, Morocco. Until a few years ago, ...

When a family asked Suzuko Yamada to design its new home on a small corner lot in a residential area of Tokyo, the architect thought back to a trip to Africa she’d taken several years ago and the ...

Aston Martin announced a new partnership with Japanese luxury real estate leader Vibroa. The two parties will collaborate to build the first Asian home "designed by Aston Martin." Vibroa is a Japanese ...

‘True to the title, the initial inspiration was to create an urban hideaway where one can relax discreetly,’ says Satoshi Kurosaki, founder of Apollo Architects. ‘To ensure comfortable living amid [a ...

Set in Setagaya, one of Tokyo’s more affluent wards, the neighborhood of Sangen-Jaya is less than 10 minutes from the world-famous Shibuya crossing by train. It’s full of old shops, tightly-packed ...

Maria Moyer is giving fresh meaning to the phrase “big in Japan.” The Los Angeles–based artist has been a favorite source for the design community since early in her transition to full-time making, ...

From the air, David Thevenin’s home two hours from Tokyo looks deceptively simple: a small, minimalist concrete structure with a pitched roof. But the single-story home is perched on the side of a ...