“Molds of happiness". The history of Kappabashi Tool Street began in the first year of the Taisho era (1912 C.E.) with several tool shops and antiquarian dealers set up at around Kappabashi Bridge over the Shinhori River.

Tanoura's weekend house is located on the island of Oshima, in the southwest of Japan. This island extends from Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, toward Hiroshima.

Project designed by S.O.Y. LABO. This is a project to add a new lunch house to an existing kindergarten. Mankind’s architectural beginnings were hand productions with a minimal amount of processing.

An office like a ‘secret base’ where people would want to gather. MGY BASE is an apparel brand office situated in a quiet residential area of Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo. It is an eye-catching building with an arrow shape facade.

Kansai-Chuo Social Welfare Association PALETTE

Architecture like an urban space where users can find a place to fit in

In a homogeneous space like an office, about twenty users were engaged in work; some were packing products in boxes at their desks, and some were processing parts for industrial products.

Small house for couples and children. IYs‐Inoue Yoshimura studio Inc. proposed a new way of living with slanted lines taking advantage of adverse conditions such as slanted line restrictions and narrow deformation sites. In the plan, the plane of the building was divided into diagonal lines and the floor was shifted up and down.

The public garden for “Bloom no kaze” is public spaces to encourage communication between local people and disabled children who use the care center “Bloom no kaze”. Before this project, the place was an abandoned forest and not open to the public but because of the construction of the care center, the garden has been renovated as a public community garden. Multiple paths are set to walk freely between trees and also accessible for wheelchairs users. Movable benches and tables are set in the cafe exterior terrace of the center so that you can use it for relaxing or chatting with a cup of coffee, eating something.