Our Architectural Works #2

東京・ビル最上階の和室

東京・目黒のビル最上階。八畳の広間を中心に設えた、隠れ家のサロンです。屋上の露地、職人が削り合わせた銘木、そして街の眺めが、静けさのなかで出会います。

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.

八畳の広間、静かな主役

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

広間から屋上の露地へ

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

欄間の透彫、円と三角と四角

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

一枚板のカウンターに夕の灯り

  • 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.