Art, architecture and travel in Japan
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Japan - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Japan.
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Koyasan Guest House — Koyasan, Japan
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Berlin gallerist Johann König heads east with Tokyo outpost
The Ginza gallery opens with an exhibition by photographer Juergen Teller exploring homesickness, German identity and his position as a European immigrant to the UK amid Brexit uncertainty
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Junya Ishigami claims inaugural Obel Award for architecture
Junya Ishigami+Associates has been presented architecture's latest prize, the 2019 Obel Award, for its Art Biotop Water Garden in a ceremony at the Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark
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Hanare House by Schemata Architects, Isumi
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Architecture update: Letter from Japan
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Kanazawa accommodates travellers in style at hip design hostel, Hatchi
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Gabriel Orozco’s creative explorations in Japan take centre stage at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery
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Japan’s Book and Bed concept hotel is a bibliophile's dream
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Post-apocolyptic art: Daniel Arsham foresees life in 2044
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La vie magnifique: a trio of artists celebrate the banal at Palais de Tokyo
Ugo Rondinone, Ragnar Kjartansson and Mélanie Matranga take over Paris' Palais de Tokyo with a trio of shows that celebrate the beauty of the everyday
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Carsten Höller curates JapanCongo in Grenoble
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Cultural connection: Mono Japan celebrates Eastern craft in Amsterdam
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Ambiente 2014: the Frankfurt design fair casts a spotlight on Japan amid its new launches
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Seeing red: a new monograph gets under the skin of installation artist Chiharu Shiota
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Block party: a new book explores Tokyo’s unique family homes
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The wabi-sabi of Erika Nakagawa's ‘breakthrough project’ in Japan
Setting up her office in Toyko in 2014, Erika Nakagawa describes Momoyama House as her ‘breakthrough project’. The weekend retreat in the Shizuoka Prefecture features an unusually high, undulating concrete roof raised on concrete pillars that creates a flowing interior, which opens entirely towards the surrounding nature. Nakagawa has also been invited to exhibit work at the respected Toto Gallery Ma space for architecture in 2021, whose selection committee includes Tadao Ando.
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After shock: New York’s Japan Society presents work on the 3/11 tragedy
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Pettanco House is a live/work space that showcases fine Japanese carpentry
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The outsider's view: W* catches up with Japanese architect Yo Shimada
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Interactive floorplan: Base Valley House, Japan
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A timber house in a Japanese forest brings a couple closer to their family
A couple's new home in a forest in Okayama, next door to their family, has been designed by Osaka based architect Tsubasa Iwahashi with equal parts of togetherness and independence
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Hiroshi Sambuichi reveals Cisternerne extension in Denmark
Japanese architect Hiroshi Sambuichi and Cisternerne director Astrid la Cour reveal plans for a new exhibition space in Denmark
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Katagiri Architecture and Design
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Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful vision for a Tokyo apartment
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AB Concept’s hot-spring mountain retreat in Karuizawa, Japan
Ed Ng and Terence Ngan show us around their idyllic Japan retreat
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Hayakawa/Kowalczyk
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Shuhei Goto Architects
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