HA Tower, designed with François Blanciak architect, takes International Architecture Award. Other winners (there is quite a group) include Morphosis and Kieran Timberlake, both offices we admire, so is a nice feeling. Travelling exhibition in Europe and book of some sort to follow... View full entry »
frontoffice was asked to join world-architects.com website. nicely curated web portal to good offices round the world. View full entry »
another recent project on long narrow site in centre of Tokyo - expect to start construction before end of year. View full entry »
preliminary design for a residential tower in tokyo put together with french architect, françois blanciak more images here Design team - will galloway, koen klinkers, françois blanciak, misuzu yoshikawa, paul mak View full entry »
Planning partner in our office, Christian Dimmer recently published an article in the Japan Times about how to address the reconstruction efforts in Tohoku that is definitely worth reading. Dear Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Over 560 sq. km of northeast Japan was inundated by the tsunami... View full entry »
we moved our office to akasaka last week, taking over the 2nd floor of an old wooden house in the center of tokyo. images below and more at our blog, here entrance new desk it will probably not look as clean as this for some time View full entry »
responding to the tohoku disaster View full entry »
Yoyogi house was featured in a popular half hour archi-show in Japan. Only Japanese but the host is so wilfully happy about everything you don't really need to understand. check out the videos below yoyogi house part one yoyogi house part two View full entry »
Our in-house planning guru recently published a two part essay about the recovery in Japan check it out: pt I - An New Deal For Japan Pt II - Imagining the future View full entry »
