Tag Hiroshima

28-04-2021

GREEN URBAN OASES

“When you are able to look at the world without seeing it simply as the playing field of the man, you can notice the ubiquity of the plants. They are everywhere and their adventures inevitably intertwine with ours”,--Stefano Mancuso.

04-05-2020

IGArchitects designs Café in Ujina, Hiroshima

In Japan, along the Hiroshima coast and specifically in the Ujina district located in the southern part of the city, architecture firm IGArchitects designed a new coffee shop. This is the first project that architect Masato Igarashi designs with the studio he founded in 2019, after working for several years for other architecture studios, including the Suppose Design Office firm.

07-09-2016

Suppose Design Office and Ohno Hirohumi’s Yagi House

Suppose Design Office and Ohno Hirohumi suggest a new way of living with Yagi House in Hiroshima. An apartment stands over a tree in the middle of an artificial garden, so that the Yagi House looks like a treehouse.

27-06-2012

UID architects: Nest, the forest as home

Using the metaphor of the nest, Keisuke Maeda (UID) interweaves architecture and nature. In his plan for a house in a forest in Onomichi he uses materials to mark the planes of interaction between different spaces and functions while denying vertical barriers and designing façades encouraging visual interaction between inside and outside.