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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma used cross-laminated timber to build a temporary pocket park pavilion and exhibition space in Tokyo. Called CLT Park Harumi, the complex is located on Harumi, a residential area built on an island of reclaimed land in the Japanese capital. Parallelogram-shaped fins of cross-laminated timber (CLT) form a four-sided pavilion that contains

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Japanese architect Takenosuke Sakakura has created three unisex toilets that glow like a lantern at night in Tokyo’s Nishihara Itchome Park as part of the Tokyo Toilet project. Named Andon, which translates as the lantern, Sakakura’s contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project will be illuminated at night to make the park a more inviting space. “By

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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has completed a circular toilet in a Tokyo park as his contribution to the Tokyo Toilet project. Built in Jingu-Dori Park, the toilet was created as part of a scheme run by non-profit Nippon Foundation to upgrade public facilities in the city’s downtown Shibuya district. The initiative has already seen by toilets built

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Schemata Architects has renovated a traditional sento, or public bathhouse, in Tokyo adding modern touches including a bar serving beer. Named Koganeyu after the famous Koganeyu Onsen baths in Sapporo, the project involved refurbishing a public bathhouse that was originally built in 1985. Tokyo based Schemata Architects kept traditional elements, such as the half wall

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