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Received the Excellent Business Award at the 3rd Excellent Business Awards

"DEUXFLE base Minamiazabu" won the Excellent Business Award in the Planning and Development category at the 3rd Excellent Business Awards of the Japan Housing Industry Association in 2013. We buil...

Lattice featured in My Home + Spring issue

Lattice is featured on page 47 of the 2013 SPRING issue of My HOME +. Buy now

2013 Hanami at Kamezuka Park

The usual cherry blossom viewing at Kamezuka Park. I'm feeling a bit out of it after drinking beer in the middle of the day. This year, we have an intern from the UK who will be working with us un...

Visitor from England

Today, Lena's university professor, who is an intern at our company from the UK, came to Japan for an interview at the company.

oyster party

A big oyster party with two 18-liter cans of oysters. It looks like a shell mound will be created. Pour sake into a 18L can and steam it over the fire. Once the sake steamed food is done, ...

Lattice featured in "126 Family Floor Plans"

Lattice is introduced on pages 108-109 of "126 Family Floor Plans." Buy now

birthday

The staff surprised me with a birthday celebration. This year's birthday is 12/12/12, which means there are three 12s in a row.

Good Design Exhibition 2012

The "Good Design Award Winners Announcement Good Design Exhibition" will be held from November 23rd. The Good Design Exhibition is the first attempt to display all of the Good Design Award winning...

2012 Good Design Award Ceremony

I attended the Good Design Award ceremony.

Lattice featured in My Home + Fall issue

Lattice is featured in My HOME +, Autumn 2012 issue, page 51. Buy now

Lattice Featured in "Books to Get the Best Floor Plans"

Lattice is featured on pages 160 - 165 of "The Book of Getting the Best Floor Plan." Buy now

Received the 2012 Good Design Award

"DEUXFLE base Minamiazabu" won the Good Design Award in 2012. By constructing multi-story row houses on sites that had been left undeveloped, we have created new value and are providing residents ...

Checker completed

Checker was reopened on July 1, 2012. Taharaya EX is located on the busy Scramble Shopping Street near JR Kawasaki Station, and is a commercial facility anchored by the clothing store Pasios. The ...

Lattice featured in "Ideas 353 to create your ideal home"

Lattice is featured on pages 44, 141, and 160 of "353 Ideas for Creating Your Dream Home." Buy now

About our data disaster countermeasures

As part of our disaster countermeasures, we have moved all of our project data to the cloud. In the unlikely event that you encounter a theft or disaster, in the worst case, data loss will cause bu...

6th Isoband Design Contest Awards Ceremony

I attended the award ceremony for the 6th NISC Isoband Design Contest.

Awarded at the 6th NISC Isoband Design Contest

"EX" won the Jury Prize/Kojima Kazuhiro Prize at the 6th NISC Isoband Design Contest out of 304 entries. EX faces the busy scramble intersection, and we aimed to create a core facility that would t...

Domain changed to synapse.co.jp

This time, the domain that has been used for 10 years since its founding synapse-net.jp from the new synapse.co.jp I changed the domain to the address of this website //synapse.co.jp becomes. The p...

10th anniversary party

We held a 10th anniversary party. We will report on what happened on the day. (This was also introduced on japan-architects.com . Some of the photos below were also provided by them.) Thank you...

"10" 10th Anniversary Collection

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hironao Sato Architectural Design Office, we have produced a collection of works from the past 10 years. Total pages are over 300. You can preview and purcha...

"Message from the sky" mockup

We created a mockup of the skylight, which is the key element of "Message from the Sky." The scale is a whopping 1/3! As intended, I was able to confirm that the sky was visible in a continuous li...

Beams Open House

Two of the "Beams" condominium buildings that we designed and supervised in Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture have been completed and we are holding an open house. Timber framed houses use a structure ...

Lattice featured in My Home + March issue

Lattice is featured in the March 2011 issue of My HOME +. Buy now

Posted in "NA Selected Books Basics of Sites and Grounds"

EX is introduced in "NA Selection: Basics of Sites and Grounds." Buy now

"Blocks" Open House Information

We are pleased to announce that " Blocks ," a project we designed and supervised in Omori-nishi, Ota Ward, has been completed and we will be holding an open house. The first floor of this building...

Lattice featured on EDGE

Lattice is featured in the September 2010 issue of EDGE. It was featured as an example of a garage house in an imported luxury car magazine. Buy now

Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award 2009 Awards Ceremony

Machiya Office was awarded the Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award 2009 and we attended the award ceremony. We will report on what happened on the day. This photo shows the award ceremony, with c...

Posted in Nikkei Architecture

It was featured in the special feature on digital presentations in the 2010/0726 issue of Nikkei Architecture. The iPad is introduced. (p38-39) Buy now

Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award Award Ceremony and Lecture Information

An award ceremony and lecture for Machiya Office, winner of the 20th Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan, will be held on July 17th. Date and time: July ...

Changed organization to joint-stock company

We would like to inform you that on June 24, 2010, we changed our corporate organization to a stock company. Taking this opportunity, we will strive to provide even better architecture. We look for...

"Circulation" Open House

We are pleased to announce that " Circulation ", a building we designed and supervised in Yahata, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, has been completed. Thanks to the kindness of the client, we will...

Participated in Mitsubishi Estate Home Architect Series

Hirotaka Sato Architects participates in the Mitsubishi Estate Home Architect Series. Collaborating with a reliable construction company that has both credibility and performance results in the fol...

Machiya Office listed in Contemporary Japanese Architects 5

Machiya Office is featured in Contemporary Japanese Architects 5. (p242-243) "Contemporary Japanese Architects" is a book published annually by the Japan Institute of Architects as the JIA Archite...

Machiya Office published in AIT (Germany)

Machiya Office was featured in the April 2010 issue of the German architecture magazine AIT. (p118-123) This is a special feature on offices.

Tokyo Great Visual published in AIT (Germany)

ContractWorld 2010, which received the Tokyo Great Visual Award, is featured in the March 2010 issue of the German architecture magazine AIT. (p137-139) He is introduced as a New Generation winner...

Tokyo Great Visual and Moon Cape featured in OFFICE STYLE

Tokyo Great Visual and Moon Cape are featured in OFFICE STYLE. (Moon Cape p37 Tokyo Great Visual p70-71) Buy now

TokyoGreatVisual is posted on Shoten Kenchiku

Tokyo Great Visual is featured in the April 2010 issue of Shotenkenchiku (pages 103-106). Buy now

EX published in Shoten Kenchiku

EX is featured in the March 2010 issue of Shotenkenchiku (Shop Architecture). (p207) This is part of a feature article by plaplax, who was in charge of the graphics for the atrium area. Buy now

Architectural Institute of Japan Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award 2009

Machiya Office won the 20th Hokuriku Architectural Culture Award from the Architectural Institute of Japan. The award ceremony, presentations, and exhibition will be held at Niigata Institute of T...

Steps III published in Casa BRUTUS

Steps III was featured in the February 2010 issue of Casa BRUTUS. (p54-55) Buy now

ContractWorld.award 2010 field report

At the ContractWorld.award 2010 (Germany), we made a presentation of two works , Tokyo Great Visual and Machiya Office , and Tokyo Great Visual won the Newcomer Award in the Office category. The C...

Lecture in Germany

Tokyo Great Visual and Machiya Office have been nominated for the Newcomer Award at the ContractWorld.award 2010 and have been invited to give a presentation. I will be giving a lecture in Hannove...

"Slit" Open House

We are pleased to announce that " Slit ", a house we designed and supervised in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, has been completed. Thanks to the kindness of the owner, we will be holding an op...

Selected for 2009 Excellent Architectural Selection by the Japan Institute of Architects

Machiya Office was selected as one of the Japan Institute of Architects' Excellent Architecture Awards 2009.

Selected for ContractWorld.award 2010

Tokyo Great Visual Headquarters was selected for the Shortlist at the ContractWorld.award 2010 (Germany). It will be exhibited at contractworld (January 16th - 19th, 2010) in Hanover. Additionally...

TGV published in Real Design

Tokyo Great Visual Headquarters was featured in the November issue of Real Design. (p54-55) Buy now

Exhibited Steps III at Five Architects Exhibition

Steps III will be exhibited at the exhibition of five architects starting on August 22nd. 1/20 scale models are on display. The location is inside Ozone in Shinjuku Park Tower. The event will run ...

Steps III will be broadcast on TV Asahi's "Tenmono Exploration"

Steps III will be broadcast on "Atsushi Watanabe's Building Exploration" on July 5th. The title that Atsushi Watanabe gave to the house is "The Living Room is a Tropical Botanical Garden: Living w...

Won JCD Design Award 2009

Tokyo Great Visual was selected as one of the JCD Design Awards 2009 BEST100. The office interior is based on the concept of "hospitality." The client is a company that specializes in branding and...

D&AD Design Award 2008 Exhibition

An exhibition of the UK D&AD Award 2008, for which Machiya Office won the Yellow Pencil, will be held in Japan.・March 3rd (Tuesday) - April 4th (Saturday), 2009・Advertising Museum Tokyo (free ...