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post updated 10 February 2026

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Latest Tokyo Buildings

Japanese Capital City Architecture – latest properties additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

3 February 2026
Reimei Kobashi pedestrian bridge, Chuo City
Architecture: Hoshino Architects INC.
Reimei Kobashi Tokyo Japan pedestrian bridge
photo : ebi_times

20 January 2026
Symbolplus Office interior design
Architects: SYMBOLPLUS INC.

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18 December 2025
Escenario Meguro Hanabusayama Tokyo Housing
Architects: Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture
Escenario Hanabusayama Tokyo Japan housing
photo : Takumi Ota Photography

12 December 2025
CCD Tokyo Creative Center, Hirakawachō, Chiyoda-ku
Architecture: Cheng Chung Design
CCD Tokyo Creative Center Chiyoda-ku Japan
photography : Wang Ting, Boris Shiu

5 November 2025
Epsom College Tokyo
Architect: PLP Architecture

26 March 2025
The Matter of Facts, Minato City
Architect: PAN- PROJECTS
The Matter of Facts, Minato City Tokyo Japan
photograph : PAN- PROJECTS

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13 June 2024
Apartments With Dialogues, Shinjuku City
Design: Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture
Apartments With Dialogues Japan
picture : Takumi Ota Photography

2 March 2024
VERTICAL RAINBOW in Tokyo building, Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku
Design: SAKO Architects
VERTICAL RAINBOW in Tokyo building colors
photo : Koji Fujii

6 January 2024
Cuadro Nakano North
Architect: Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture

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12 November 2023
Odawara’s House
Architect: Niko Design Studio

6 September 2023
TRUNK (Hotel) Yoyogi Park, Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku
Architecture: Keiji Ashizawa Design
TRUNK (Hotel) Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan 1
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Recent Tokyo Building Designs

Japan Capital City Property Developments 2012 to 2016:

3 Feb 2016
International Popular Culture Laboratory in Tokyo Competition
International Popular Culture Laboratory in Tokyo Competition

17 + 16 Jan 2016
New National Stadium Tokyo Designs
Design: Kengo Kuma
Architect Kengo Kuma denies plagiarising Zaha Hadid and defends his design. 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games organisers are “refusing” to pay the British architect for her designs unless she gives up the copyright and signs a ‘gagging order’.
New National Stadium Tokyo Designs

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25 Nov 2015
Futako Tamagawa Masterplan
Design: Conran and Partners
Futako Tamagawa Masterplan
photograph : Edmund Sumner
Futako Tamagawa Masterplan Tokyo
The scheme, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.

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11 June 2013
Narrow Architecture in Tokyo
Design: architectural office htmn with Masayuki Nakahata
Office Building Tokyo
photo © Daici Ano
Narrow Architecture in Tokyo
This is a clinic and office building complex in Japan’s capital city.

22 Apr 2013
New National Stadium, Tokyo – competition entry
Design: Andrea Maffei Architects
New National Stadium Tokyo
image from architect
New National Stadium Tokyo
The distribution of the main arena of the stadium follows the best way to avoid big security fire stairs and to give an easy access by the people inside the new stadium. The architects designed a main platform connecting the new stadium with the gymnasium designed by Fumiko Maki in a unique big Plaza as a City of Sport.

11 Jan 2013
Luminous Tokyo
Design: Jun Sakaguchi Architect
Luminous tower building Tokyo
photograph : Tomohiro Sakashita
Luminous Tokyo
Nine storey commercial building – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. The façade has a beautiful and deeply curved glass wall, which maximizes the frontage for tenants and continually reflects changes in the environment.

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16 Nov + 30 Oct 2012
Kasumigaoka National Stadium
Design Shortlist for the new Kasumigaoka National Stadium building
Green Point Stadium Building
image © Marcus Bredt, Berlin
Kasumigaoka National Stadium
Japan’s bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the international competition to build the new National Stadium of Japan. This British architecture practice, which produced the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games, was selected ahead of 45 other international architecture firms for the US $1.62bn development.

26 Sep 2012
Hue plus studio office, Kaigan Minato
Design: Jo Nagasaka/Schemata Architects
Hue plus Tokyo
photo : Takumi Ota
Hue plus studio office
The alternative space Hue+ is a series of facilities seamlessly integrated into the photo studio, where the visual expression of ‘eating’ is the particular subject of photographic exploration. Unlike an ordinary photo studio that is a closed box to be used merely as a shooting equipment, Hue+ is an office space, a cafe, a library and a kitchen.

18 Apr 2012
M&M Rosie‘ – House in Setagaya
Design: ARTechnic architects
M&M Rosie
photo : Nacasa&Pertners Inc.
M&M Rosie
When the client found this land, the architects were asked to give an advice. It was a strip of pentagonal land facing west with only a pair of parallel boundary lines.

8 Mar 2012
Small House in Meguro-ku, south of Tokyo
Design: Hiroyuki Unemori architects – added
Meguro-ku House
photograph : Ken Sasajima
Small House in Meguro-ku
The small house which the married couple and their child live stands at the densely populated area in Tokyo. Though the neighboring houses is very close, the architect studio aimed to design the house which exceed the physical narrowness living at the city.

25 May 2012
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
Design: Tange Associates Architects
Cocoon Tower Tokyo
photo : Koji Horiuchi
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, which contains 3 vocational schools with approximately 10,000 students, is an innovative educational facility located in Tokyo’s distinctive Nishi-Shinjuku high-rise district. The building’s elliptic shape, wrapped in a criss-cross web of diagonal lines, embodies the “cocoon” concept.

20 Apr 2012
Storage House, Kanagawa
Design: Ryuji Fujimura Architects
Storage House Tokyo
photograph : Takumi Ota
Storage House Tokyo
New property located in a residential area on the suburbs of Tokyo.

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Japanese Capital City Property Development Archive

23 Sep 2011
HA Tower
Design: Frontoffice + François Blanciak Architect
HA Tower
image from architect
HA Tower Tokyo

28 Nov 2011
‘Outside In’ – House in Yamanashi Prefecture
Design: Takeshi Hosaka architects
House in Yamanashi Prefecture
photograph : Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Pertners Inc.
Yamanashi House

18 Aug 2011
Musashino Art University Museum & Library
Design: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Musashino Art University Building
photograph from architect
Musashino Art University Museum & Library – LEAF Awards winner, Sep 2012

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Tokyo Architecture Competition

Central Glass International Architectural Competition
Design: Kutonotuk
Central Glass Architecture Contest
image from architect
Central Glass Architecture Competition
“Lightcore” by Kutonotuk (Leena Cho & Matthew Jull) won the Second Prize for the Central Glass International Architectural Competition in Tokyo, Japan. The theme was to speculate on glass architecture in year 2050 and the thoughts and actions that will shape the use of glass in architecture forty years from now.

Tokyo Office Buildings

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New Buildings in Tokyo

Modern Buildings in the Japanese Capital, alphabetical:

Alexandre Herchcovitch
Studio Arthur Casas, Architects
Alexandre Herchcovitch
photograph : Eusike Fukumochi
Alexandre Herchcovitch

Armani/Ginza Tower
Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Armani/Ginza Tower
photograph : Ramon Prat
Armani/Ginza Tower

The Jewels of Aoyama, Minato-ku
Mitsui&Associates Architects
The Jewels of Aoyama
picture : Urban Arts
The Jewels of Aoyama

The Ice Cubes
Jun Mitsui&Associates Architects
The Ice Cubes
photograph : Naoomi Kurozumi
The Ice Cubes

Leaf Chapel, Yamanashi, near Tokyo
klein dytham architecture
Leaf Chapel
picture from kda
Leaf Chapel Yamanashi

Millennium Tower
Foster + Partners
Millennium Tower Tokyo
image : Foster + Partners
Millennium Tower Tokyo

N Building
TERADADESIGN ARCHITECTS
N Building Tokyo
photo : Yuki OMORI
N Building

Prada Store
Herzog and de Meuron
Prada Store Tokyo
picture © James Whitaker
Prada Store Tokyo

TBWAHakuhodo offices
Klein Dytham architecture
Tokyo office building
photograph : Kozo Takayama
Tokyo offices

Yokohama International Port Terminal
Design: Foreign Office Architects
Yokohama Ferry Terminal
photograph via RIAS
Yokohama International Port Terminal

More Contemporary Tokyo Buildings Designs online soon.

Location: Tokyo, Japan.

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Japanese Architecture – key buildings + design projects

Tokyo Architects

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Key Japanese Architects

Tadao Ando

Kisho Kurokawa

Toyo Ito

Fumihiko Maki

Buildings / photos for the Modern Japanese Architecture Designs page welcome.