This linear residence with a book cafe in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, by Atelier Bow-Wow, the site’s one-hundred-degrees curve along the street.Watch the video of the house after the break. … Read More

 From our archives: Today’s architectural archive article looks back twelve years ago to a holiday home built in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. Architects Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow designed this single-story wooden house in 2000. It originally appeared in our magazines: Shinkenchiku (New Architecture) 2001, March and, more recently, in JA85 Spring 2012. … Read More

The site for the new Estonian National Museum in Tartu has a history with many vicissitudes. It was the site for the country’s first national museum built in 1909. The original building was tragically destroyed during the World War II, and subsequently occupied by a Soviet airbase. Paris-based Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane chose to unite the new museum with the country’s turbulent past. … Read More

Thirty-three years after they started living in the house they bought when their child was born, an elderly couple decided to move to a new home. The architect, Assistant, designed a house where the couple’s memories from the past can coexist with the present. … Read More