Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car. From left, Takina Shimura and his parents, Tomoko Shimura and Yoshiki Shimura, in their compact house in Zushi, Japan, a ...
Set on a narrow 31sqm plot in Tokyo’s Bunkyo district, Love2 House is the home of architect Takeshi Hosaka and his wife Megumi. Designed to balance privacy and daylight amid surrounding high-rise ...
Today, AD joins architect Masato Igarashi of IGArchitects to see how he makes the most of his small Tokyo home. Tokyo has the highest population concentration in all of Japan, so large plots of land ...