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Now, following Takada's passing in 2020, it has come on the market via the property specialists at Christie's. Kenzo's work mixed Eastern and Western influences, as well as a passion for colour, light and nature. The home of legendary fashion designer Kenzo Takada, it sits in the French capital’s 11th arrondissement, and while it was initially created by Takada himself in 1988, it was redesigned thoroughly by Japanese architecture master Kengo Kuma in 2017, which brought the property to its current iteration: an architectural slice of Zen within Paris' bustling metropolis. Ok, while this is technically not located in Japan, Kenzo House is still a fine Japanese house -as well as one of Paris' better kept secrets. (Image credit: Jimmy Cohrssen) Kenzo House by Kengo Kuma Through this process of thinking about the future from the memory of a place, archaeology gradually becomes architecture,’ said Tane. And that this memory does not belong to the past, but is the driving force that creates architecture. I believe that a place will always have memories deeply embedded in the ground and in history. It is a process of surprise and discovery, a quest to encounter things we did not know, what we had forgotten, what has been lost through modernisation and globalisation. The building, created by French-based, Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane (a participant in the 2018 Wallpaper* Architects Directory), was inaugurated this week during Art Basel 2023 and represents an immersive garden structure that draws on ideas of nature and memory. ‘Like archaeologists, we begin a long process of exploration and digging up the memory of a place.

Tane Garden House is the latest addition to be revealed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. (Image credit: Photographer Julien Lanoo, courtesy of ATTA and Vitra) Tane Garden House by Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architecture Transparent and light, the four-storey building – configured from 13 staggered layers of stacked box-like units wrapped in greenery, that seemingly hover above the ground – is home to two gallery spaces, 26 residences and the French restaurant Cépages. Maebashi Galleria, just five minutes on foot from the hotel, was designed by architect Akihisa Hirata. More recently, countering its industrial decline, its creative projects are increasingly in the spotlight, including the landmark Shiroiya Hotel by Sou Fujimoto which opened in December 2020. Innovation has long been threaded through the DNA of the small city, which flourished for centuries as a progressive silk production hub. With this newest opening – a new complex fusing art galleries with residences – the transformation of a sleepy former silk-making city in rural Japan into a major creative hub has taken a leap forward. Maebashi Galleria is the latest in the string of revitalisation projects involving an impressive roll call of top international and Japanese architecture, design and art scene names, that are putting Maebashi in mountainous Gunma prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, firmly on the country's creative map. (Image credit: Shinya Kigure) Maebashi Galleria by Akihisa Hirata

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