Creating a Cozy Nook

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This unconventional house designed by Hiroshi Nakamura, a young architect based in Tokyo, has a wall in the living room which has been pushed outside creating a big ‘bump’ in the facade of the house.
House SH by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Structure : steel-reinforced concrete
Square footage : 936
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Completion: 2005


Images © Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Co., Ltd. / Photos by Naoki Honjo
Tag: Hiroshi Nakamura
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its wonderful, full of light, air and weightlessness
Comment by angel — March 1, 2008 #
@ his site I watched this girl over&over again. She was a reason to purchase「恋する建築」by Hiroshi Nakamura. Her expression was the answer of his creation that what I felt.
Then this book became one of my favorit! I’m so grad to meet this book at this very moment☆
And I love to imagine a guy who want to be an architect carry this Alice blue color book with such a girly title…would be cute!
Comment by Yukiko — March 6, 2008 #
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