Hiroyuki Ito    Japan   The Japanese firm Hiroyuki Ito Architects was commissioned to build this apartment building in the Tokyo ward ot Bunkyo. The zone of its location has undergone significant change in recent years, with hotels replaced by residential complexes. The pro

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A succession of translucent acrylic cylinders resting on wooden bars surround the different spaces of the Nacrée restaurant and serve as support for bouquets of flowers that seem to float on the air.

Kengo Kuma   Japan   The Tiffany boutique takes up a nine-story building in Ginza, the most sophisticated, chic district in Tokyo. The boutique goes up in an existing building that has been transformed into the flagship store of the American firm in Japan, one of its mai

Rosa Urbano   The evolution of the glass envelope goes along with the evolution of architecture as one of the most representative components of contemporaneity, and is the architectural element that most significantly expresses the cultural values of society, and