2024-11-21T16:32:29-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150000857/japan-s-magical-mountainside Nam Henderson 2017-04-02T14:44:00-04:00 >2019-10-17T19:39:33-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/53/534d9a96f1785fa2b5937d54df36b30f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>There is Makoto Yamaguchi&rsquo;s Polygon House, a quasi-Brutalist geode of distressed steel and glass that perches on a hill in a forest like an abandoned space pod; the concrete, glass and larch wood Omizubata N House by Iida Archiship Studio, as well as TNA&rsquo;s Passage, Ring and Stage House(s)</p></em><br /><br /><p>Hanya Yanagihara visited the mountain town of Karuizawa, which has a collection of houses designed by prominent Japanese architects.</p>