Japanese culture

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about Japanese culture

Project • By Souta Yoriki Design Office • Bars

The Ginzara Midnight Diner

The client wanted to open a restaurant that would be used as a late-night diner in a one of the rooms of a building in Ikejiri-Ohashi.Accordingly, we chose wood-grain sheets as the main material, as they are often used for tables and counter tops in general dining establishments. Tomoyuki Kusunose Tomoyuki Kusunose In recent years, wood-grain sheets have tended to be avoided as a superficial material, but this time, we focused on their popular cultural background of Showa-ish old fashioned style and decided to carry on this tradition. Tomoyuki Kusunose Tomoyuki Kusunose The main materials are wood-grain sheets as the surface material and plywood as the structural material, and they are ironically and symbolically coexi... More

Project • By Design Studio NAO • Cultural Centres

Teahouse 5.8

A historical Georgian ruin transformed into a Japanese Teahouse while respecting the building’s own unique charm. The challenge was introducing a Japanese cultural icon into the heart of old Tbilisi with a nod to Georgian cultures. Masanao Tokuda Masanao Tokuda With that concept in mind, we held a design workshop to brainstorm ideas with local Georgian architecture students and young architects. We spent 2 weeks together to discuss what we should do to protect the traditional Georgian environment, and how we could adopt Japanese culture into the historical location. This collaboration contributed a lot to the final design. Masanao Tokuda Masanao Tokuda Out of respect for the architecture, we kept as much of the e... More

Project • By C28 srl -collaboratorio di progettazione • Restaurants

Deba Sushi

The culture of the minimum. Project for a "sushi restaurant" in the historic centre of Perugia, where the comparison with the Japanese culture of the minimum and the exaltation of the "wound" has led to highlight the distinctions between pre-existence and addition. Caption The restaurant occupies a few rooms on the ground floor of a historic, listed building, adjacent to the more famous Palazzo Conestabile della Staffa, in the historic centre. Caption The design is based on a logic of stratification in the formal, material and organisational aspects of the new architectural elements. Caption These are conceived not as isolated presences but as fragments of an architectural system inserted within the existing one that seeks... More