Japan
Suetomi AOQ café stand in Kyoto, Japan by G Architects Studio
Julia CabanasA micro-café for a confectionery brand experiments with soy sauce and copper to navigate the city’s stringent conservation rules
Hydrogen station in Tokushima, Japan by Osamu Morishita Architect & Associates
AR EditorsThis station for hydrogen-fuelled cars aims to evoke a substance lighter than air
More Japanese buildings
More Japanese houses
Concrete tombs: the material footprint of nuclear waste and war
Owen HatherleyUsed to contain, memorialise and ward off nuclear disaster, concrete is the primary building material of the atomic age
Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972–2022): demolition postcard
Aric ChenAric Chen sends a postcard to the iconic metabolist architecture of Tokyo’s Ginza district


















