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Medical Herbman Café Project by EARTHSCAPE


This is one of those simple, social projects that deserves to be lauded! Japanese landscape design studio EARTHSCAPE have created a giant travelling human-shaped herb garden, dubbed ‘Herbman’. Called the Medical Herbman Café Project (MHCP), the garden travels around in shipping containers and turns into a pop-up shop and cafe at each location (from which proceeds are…

Japanese Boutique Has Many Doors, Only One Works


For an interior renovation of a clothing shop called Rroomm in Osaka, Japanese architects Ninkipen needed to figure out what to do with a collection of existing doors. Rather than cover over them, the firm heard opportunity knocking and was inspired to base the entire concept of the shop on doors. In total there are…

Tanaka Residence by Katsufumi Kubota


Built on a hillside with reflecting pools and a carport on the roof, this single family residence in Yokosuka City, Japan, is made of reinforced concrete with a steel frame. We like! See the original post on Daily Icon here.