Architecture studio Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has designed the “Optical Glass House” in Hiroshima, Japan, that aims to acoustically protect residents from the main road outside, whilst providing light ...

Some buildings merely coexist with the landscape, but others enhance it. Erretegia, a restaurant specializing in Basque cuisine and designed by the Tokyo architect Hiroshi Nakamura, does both.

The Warehouse in Dallas has been around since 2012 but became an official nonprofit in 2024 to expand the organization’s mission of educating the public with scholarly curatorial programming and ...

In Japan, where few buildings are made to last, trees are mostly dispensable, and real estate remains among the world’s priciest, most architects simply nod politely to the notion of context. But the ...

Nestled in the steep gorges and river valleys of Japan’s Tokushima prefecture is Kamikatsu - a small town seemingly like any other. But Kamikatsu, unlike its neighbors (or indeed, most towns in the ...

Hiroshi Nakamura, architect of the Ribbon Chapel in Japan, describes the design ideology and his personal favorite elements of the project in this stunning new video by Matthew Allard ACS. Shooting ...

Winner: Sustainable building of the year 2021. The Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP and Yamada Noriaki Structural Design Office is built using waste materials. The waste facility ...

A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie). Optical Glass House was constructed ...

From the exterior, a guest may not be able to immediately discern whether the home is a collection of small buildings or one cohesive space. The playful curiosity raised by this uncertainty is ...

This modest family house in Chiba appears wedded to the earth, a deliberate strategy by the Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Nakamura. 'I wanted to make an architecture that's like working on soil in the ...