Architects: Suppose Design Office
Location: Saijo,Higashihiroshima,Hiroshima,Japan
Program: Personal house
Site area: 246 sqm
Building area: 50.41m
Total floor area: 115.51 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc.

A client is a couple with three children hoped there are bright openhearted space, and keeping the privacy. This site is a field before, and bearing stratum is in the minus one meter from the ground side.Therefore, we thought support according to the composition of not the ground improvement, but a half underground from the beginning of the plan. The leftover soil by excavating the ground was used to making the hill, that thing is enabled the function of the garden on the exterior and guard their privacy from, house’s neighborhood. The upper floors than a half underground are composed by only the pyrami-shaped roof, the lighting was token in the skylight. Read the rest of this entry »

Designers: Taro Kono and Hiroshi Muranishi
Project Type: Single family residence
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Completion: March 2010
Site Area: 1,105 square feet (102.65m²)
Floor Area: 1,287 square feet (119.52m²)

A new construction in Kyoto built on a narrow lot measuring less than 14 feet wide. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: Toyo Ito
Project: Za Koenji Public Theatre
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Photographer: Iwan Baan

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The 2010 Pritzker Prize goes to SANAA!

In praising SANAA’s “collaborative partnership,” the Pritzker jury noted that “it is virtually impossible to untangle which individual is responsible for what aspect of a particular project. Each building is ultimately a work that comes from the union of their two minds.”

Some of their most recent projects include:

• Zollverein School of Design – 2003 to 2006 - Essen, Germany
• Naoshima Ferry Terminal – 2003 to 2006 - Kagawa, Japan
• The New Museum of Contemporary Art – 2003 to 2007 - New York City, New York
• Novartis Office Building – 2003 to Present - Basel, Switzerland
• House for the CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) – 2004 to Present - Nanjing, China
• Rolex Learning Center at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – 2004 to Present - Lausanne, Switzerland
• Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – 2009 - London, England
• The Learning Center (at EPFL) – 2010 - Lausanne, Switzerland

The architects will receive the award, which includes a $100,000 cash prize, in a May 17 ceremony on Ellis Island in New York. They join Kenzo Tange (1987), Fumihiko Maki (1993) and Tadao Ando (1995) as Pritzker laureates from Japan.

Project Specification
Location: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Purpose of the Building: Single Family Residential
Structure of the Building: 2-Story Wooden Structure
Site Area: 379.58 m2
Building Area: 193.77 m2
Total Floor Area: 226.06 m2
Design: Yoshichika Takagi (Sekkei-Sha)
Construction: Daisuke Hasegawa (Daisuke Hasegawa & Partners)

Located in Sapporo-Japan, this wooden residence was designed by Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi. Called House K, the interior is divided by a series of wooden structures with pitched roofs. The project forms platforms and mezzanines on top of the house-shaped rooms, which are arranged around a central kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »