Our Architectural Works #2

Pièce de tatamis en penthouse à Tokyo

Au dernier étage d'un immeuble de Tokyo, un salon-refuge organisé autour d'une pièce de huit tatamis — où un jardin de thé sur le toit, des bois façonnés à la main et l'horizon de la ville se rejoignent dans le calme.

Eight-mat tatami room with a natural shibori log post, a tokonoma scroll and a woven-bamboo ceiling, a traditional Japanese interior in a Tokyo penthouse.

La pièce de huit tatamis

Tatami room opening onto a rooftop tea garden with a maple, stepping stones and a bamboo fence above the Tokyo skyline, contemporary Japanese architecture.

Le jardin de thé sur le toit

Openwork transom carved with a circle, triangle and square in cedar grain, a fine detail of Japanese architecture.

Cercle, triangle et carré

Openwork transom carved with a circle, triangle and square in cedar grain, a fine detail of Japanese architecture.

Le comptoir, au crépuscule

  • Rooftop Japanese garden with a maple, mondo grass, stepping stones and a bamboo fence, set against the city skyline under a blue sky.
  • Tatami room opening onto a rooftop tea garden with a maple, stepping stones and a bamboo fence above the Tokyo skyline, contemporary Japanese architecture.
  • Long kitchen counter with glass pendant lights at dusk, a tatami room with shoji screens visible to one side.
  • Stone tsukubai water basin with a bamboo ladle among ferns, mondo grass and stepping stones in a rooftop tea garden.
  • A low hearth island with an iron kettle before wide windows opening to a rooftop garden of maple and stepping stones.
  • Tokonoma alcove with a rope-netted gold vessel, a hanging calligraphy scroll and a single flower beside a natural log post.
  • Eight-mat tatami hall with a tokonoma and a descending woven-bamboo and rafter ceiling, seen from the salon by day.
  • Waiting area with a cedar bench, a natural-edge post and an andon wall light beside an arched threshold to the tatami room.
  • Open-plan top-floor salon at dusk with a timber counter, a low hearth cabinet and an illuminated entrance alcove, a modern Japanese interior in Tokyo.
  • Daytime salon counter looking onto a rooftop garden, with a black-topped hearth and an iron kettle beside floor-to-ceiling windows.
  • Entrance hall with a hand-carved deity on a single horse-chestnut plank shelf, cedar sliding doors and a tiled floor.
  • View from the waiting bench through timber posts toward the salon counter and the tatami hall beyond.
  • Raised tatami room glowing at dusk beyond an open-plan salon, showing the layered spaces of contemporary Japanese architecture.
  • Mizuya preparation room with cedar shelving and a bamboo-slat base, opening toward the tatami hall.
  • Close view of cut-glass ware on a lacquer tray atop a live-edge counter, beside a kumiko asanoha lattice panel.