Japanese practice Schemata Architects has nestled a guesthouse and bar into a hill on the coast of an island in the Seto Inland Sea, with large windows that can be fully opened to the surrounding ...

The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul, completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects. The gallery is ...

Occupying an an old warehouse building in the industrial area of Kaigan in Tokyo’s Minato ward, the Hue Plus studio is a space dedicated to the creation of food photography. Owned by Amana, Japan's ...

Tokyo-based Schemata Architects have renovated a traditional Japanese residence into a modern dwelling with an office, while keeping many of the 80-year-old building’s original features intact.

We placed fixtures of various textures, heights, and sizes to create a sense of circulation while bringing out "noise" elements generally hidden behind the scenes to the sales floor to generate a ...

Historically, public bathing was a fundamental necessity for hygiene, giving rise to communal bathhouses in regions where private bathrooms were a rarity. In Japan, for instance, sento bathhouses ...

Le Labo’s new Kyoto flagship store and cafe was designed by architect Jo Nagasaka to adapt a 145-year-old traditional townhouse, called a “machiya” in Japanese. Nagasaka, the principal of Schemata ...

Located in Saitama prefecture, this beautiful home was built by an architect following the client’s father’s original design. The original idea was to fit as many rooms as possible into the space, and ...