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  • Visionary Lighthouse – Kuwait Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka

Visionary Lighthouse – Kuwait Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Cultural buildings, Japan|

LAVA’s design for the Kuwait Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025 is a tactile embodiment of Kuwait’s ‘Vision 2035’ - a future grounded in collaboration, warmth, and openness. The pavilion’s form reflects Kuwait’s coastal desert
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  • Wa! Germany – German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka

Wa! Germany – German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Cultural buildings, Japan|

LAVA’s German Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka pioneers regenerative architecture through cutting-edge design, material innovation, and circularity. Built as a closed-loop system, it showcases modular adaptability and material intelligence, combining cylindrical glulam structures with
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  • T Villa Renovation

T Villa Renovation

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – renovation|

This is a renovated mansion perched on a hill overlooking the sea. The rich nature of Yakushima is ever-changing, each moment revealing delicate beauty. Light reflects as if bleeding through the glossy ribbed panels
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  • HOUSE IN TOYOOKA

HOUSE IN TOYOOKA

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 – Grand Prix, Japan, Residential – houses|

Passing through a wooded area, a plateau surrounded by the lush greenery of the valley emerges. Encircling the perimeter of the plateau is architecture without a traditional facade, its bamboo-covered roof being the only
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  • Nezu A Flat

Nezu A Flat

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

This five-story, nine-unit studio apartment complex is located in the heart of Tokyo. The site is compact, measuring just 6,5 meters in width and 11,5 meters in depth. To ensure that all units could
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  • House of Tensui

House of Tensui

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

This project is a single-family house set within an orange orchard, offering panoramic views of the Ariake Sea and Mount Unzen. Surrounded by nature and an exceptionally beautiful landscape, the site is expected to
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  • Ippatsu

Ippatsu

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Cultural buildings, Japan|

Ippatsu is a gallery that combines a traditional Japanese teahouse with a contemporary art space. It is located in Takebe town, a 50-minute drive from central Okayama City. As one travels to Takebe, the
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  • CAFE BREW

CAFE BREW

BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2025 – Winner, Interior, Japan, Retail|

Renovation of a Former Sake Brewery in Hizenhamashuku, Kashima City This project involves the renovation of a former brewery, once used for sake production, located in Hizenhamashuku, Kashima City - an area that once
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  • Kirishima beauty salon

Kirishima beauty salon

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Public and administration buildings|

This project involves the relocation and reconstruction of an existing store in Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture. It began with the vision of creating a space that is open to the local community - a
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  • Fukuoka Pinocchio Kindergarten

Fukuoka Pinocchio Kindergarten

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Educational buildings, Japan|

This certified preschool, with a capacity of 216 children, is planned for Naka River City in Fukuoka Prefecture. A lunchroom was strategically placed between the classrooms for 3- to 5-year-olds, connected through a stairwell
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  • Matsuzaka Clinic

Matsuzaka Clinic

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Industrial buildings and workspace, Japan|

This project entailed a bold expansion and renovation of an active medical clinic - carried out while treatment continued uninterrupted. The sequence of construction steps - site preparation → traffic rerouting → demolition →
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  • House in Kitaoji・F

House in Kitaoji・F

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

This is a complete renovation of a detached house located in Kyoto City. Situated at the focal point of a narrow alley’s axis, the façade is designed to convey a sense of frontality. While
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  • House of Quartz

House of Quartz

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – housing|

The House of Quartz is a crystallized manifestation of living energy in architectural form. It absorbs, reflects, and amplifies the phenomena of life at any given moment, channeling the enhancement of their vivid frequencies.
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  • The Lakeside Villa

The Lakeside Villa

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

This villa is located at the far end of Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan. The design and volume of the villa were carefully determined to preserve the scenic views of the traditional
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  • KAWARAMACHI OFFICE

KAWARAMACHI OFFICE

BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2025 – Winner, Interior, Japan, Workplace|

The design plan encompasses the office lobby, conference room, and president's office, each thoughtfully curated to balance aesthetics and functionality. Upon entering the lobby, guests are greeted by a striking Arabescato marble centerpiece, cut
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  • Spiritual Boundaries in an Urban Tea Room

Spiritual Boundaries in an Urban Tea Room

BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2025 – Winner, Hospitality, Interior, Japan|

The tea room is located within a condominium in Tokyo, situated at a busy intersection with a large opening facing the crossroads. While the glass walls are advantageous for commercial use, they pose challenges
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  • Grand Tsuru

Grand Tsuru

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2025 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

Grand Tsuru in Niseko, Japan, seamlessly blends Japanese culture with nature. Located just minutes from the ski slopes, the three properties, inspired by cranes, feature harmonious designs with extended eaves and wooden louvers. Each 250
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  • TR-1620 / TRONO

TR-1620 / TRONO

BIG SEE Product Design Award 2024 – Winner, Home, Japan, Product design|

TR-1620/Trono — Throne for two; square and circular forms unite in this design, offering two distinct bathing experiences and modes of comfort. Enjoy full back support in the sloped square portion, or stretch out freely
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  • Sumu Yakushima -Regenerative Life Studio-

Sumu Yakushima -Regenerative Life Studio-

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2024 – Winner, Japan, Residential – housing|

Yakushima Island is a natural paradise in southern Japan. This innovative housing project applies "regenerative architecture" to reconceptualize the relationship between human habitation and nature. The name Sumu means both "to live" and "to become
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  • House in Akishima

House in Akishima

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2024 – Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

Living between the concrete as furniture. We designed a house where the concrete foundation can divide the space by standing up on the site as furniture to trigger a place to stay. The layout
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  • Panorama House

Panorama House

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2024 – Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

This project involves designing a residence on a mountainside with breathtaking ocean views, including a vista of Mt. Fuji. Given the site context, achieving a view of the sea from the 1st floor level is
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  • FUTABASOU Apartments

FUTABASOU Apartments

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2024 – Winner, Japan, Residential – housing|

Nestled in Tokyo’s serene “Shitamachi” neighborhood, Futabasou offers a unique “Life and Work” living experience. This six-unit complex caters to diverse residents, providing flexible spaces that seamlessly blend work and life. Inspired by the soft
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  • Aquarium

Aquarium

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2024 – Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

Looking into the aquarium, which mirrors the ocean's interior through glass, one sees vast expanses, rocky formations, vegetation, and cavernous openings blending seamlessly in an undivided space. The environment brightens toward the water's surface above,
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  • A Japanese Manga Artist’s House

A Japanese Manga Artist’s House

Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2023 - Winner, Japan, Residential – houses|

A building that floats a few centimeters above our daily lives. They designed a house and studio with a warped seismic wooden facade for an up-and-coming manga artist in Tokyo, Japan. The project is
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