Takumi Ota

Culvert Guesthouse / nendo

August 01, 2022

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Architects: nendo
Year: 2022

Kamigori Nursery School / Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates

May 20, 2022

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Architects: Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates
Area: 1397 m²
Year: 2021

Komame Commons Community Center / Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates

May 19, 2022

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Architects: Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates
Area: 127 m²
Year: 2019

Beans and Beams: 17 Projects that Explore the Design Elements of Coffee Shops

April 13, 2022

Coffee shops have always been popular gathering spaces among coffee lovers, but with the rise of remote working, especially post-pandemic, they have become a hotspot for remote workers and students as well. One of the many reasons why they are such a popular hangout spot, other than the fact that they serve one of the most globally-adored drinks, is because of their well-designed interior spaces that promote comfort, relaxation, and productivity simultaneously. After all, it's always been said that architects and coffee go hand in hand. In this interior focus, we explore how different design elements shape the user experience of a coffee shop, and look at how architects have employed them through 17 examples.

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Sumu Fumu Terrace / nendo

April 02, 2022

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Architects: nendo
Year: 2022

Structures, Finishing and Frames: All the Ways to Use Timber in a Work

April 01, 2022

One of the first elements used by humans to build shelters, wood is a versatile material that, along with technological advances, remains a protagonist in the construction industry, being used in different ways and moments in a work.

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Small Cafe Designs: 30 Aspirational Examples in Plan & Section

March 28, 2022

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The interior design of a coffee shop can make-or-break an establishment. With an inviting design, you can transform drinking a simple cup of coffee into a wonderful experience. However, when you only have a few square meters and various machines and properties to distribute, finding an efficient configuration is not easy.

How to Divide Spaces Without Traditional Solid Partitions

March 09, 2022

Functionality, good ventilation, comfortable lighting, and access to views are some of the important required characteristics that make for human comfort in inhabited or occupied spaces. Nonetheless, those elements are becoming harder to achieve within smaller city dwellings. Architects and individuals, therefore, turn towards design solutions to create more agreeable and personalized settings.

An initial solution to upscale and widen spaces is to reduce the amount of standard solid partitions or walls and replace them with alternative means of spatial separation.

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The Rise of the Design Thinking Movement and its Relation to Architecture

January 19, 2022

'Innovation' and 'design thinking' could possibly be two of the most extensively-used phrases both online and offline during the past decade. To respond to the global need of "changing the status quo", established companies, start-ups, and even universities have used this framework to generate novel ways of solving problems and create new products, taking into account their desirability, feasibility, and viability. And with that, a new archetype was conceived: the design thinker, someone who has the creative toolkit to generate something disruptive. So what is the meaning behind design thinking and what is its relationship with architecture?

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