m house- takeshi hirobe architects

m house is in japan, designed by takeshi hirobe architects.

the design here plays with the meaning of "privacy" while trying to
bring a new connection between the house's interior and the outside environment,
a game we see quite often in contemporary japanese architecture.
we believe it is acheived here rather poetically, with the intrusion of light
through the different skylights that dig holes into the building's body, as well as with
the choice of materials...wood and beton seem to make such a beautiful combination
with the soft colors and the interior plants...don't you think?

what grasps one's attention is undoubtedly the amazing stairs...
they remind you of a spider web..and the way light filters through them and their rather bright white
come to such a contrast with the interior of the house...
as if the sole part that connects the inside with the outside world, your connection to the city life is seperate yet entirely a part of the building!

more details here.
got the pictures from here too.

issey miyake

fashion designer
he emphasised on the geometry and nature of the human body.
his works communicated and flowed with the body as one.
very interesting part of his work was the use of colors and different textures.

lower part of a dress

bag

dress

perfume

videos:

 issey miyake shop visual london

animation for his website

House in Kitakami- Nadamoto Yukiko Architects

new world transparent specimens - iori tomita

having started as a fisherman to preserve organisms he caught,

today japanese artist, iori tomita advances his technique making protein invisible
and creates an art out of nature and death itself.

his work, as he himself has noted,

can be seen from many different perspectives.

i give you mine:

through his art you can see the architecture of different animals

how their bodies are built, what can happen to them after death.

it rises questions like, can colors and light make the image of death tolerable

or even magnificent to look at?

a dead organism is still part of nature...by preserving it, there is created a whole new world

a whole new perspective of it. how can this perspective alter other things in our everyday life...?

like architecture, interiors,or posters, this offers new aesthetics, as 

many other great artists have done before.

i find his work quite intuiguing in every way!

these amazing pictures were borrowed from designboom

which is also where you can find much more detailed information 

as well as here

layer house - hiroaki ohtani

architecture review on this blog
this is a great example of contemporary japanese architecture in today's contemporary city.

"it is what we call a "sandwich house", meaning a house built on a very narrow
site, quite a common thing in condensed japanese cities."