Double window
A pair of windows arranged side by side in a horizontal layout, often separated by mullions, transoms, or other structural elements within the same frame. When more than two windows are aligned, they are called a window band or strip window. Also called coupled window.
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A Conversation with Leth & Gori
How do you create a house that can be maintenance-free for 50 years and last for at least 150 years? The Brick House, designed by the Denmark-based architect duo Leth & Gori as part of an initiati…
14 Mar 2025
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Architecture in Motion
Architect YU Momoeda, who is a long-time admirer of Shoei Yoh, participated in the Find and Tell residency program of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), providing his readings of the archival…
19 Mar 2025
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Talk Event Report: Swiss Window Journeys Speakers: Momoyo Kaijima, Chie Konno, Fumiko Takahama, Mio Tsuneyama
On June 22, 2024 (Saturday), the Swiss Window Journeys – Swiss Windows and Architecture talk event was held in the Architectural Hall of the Architectural Institute of Japan. The event was held to cel…
26 Sep 2024
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The Diversity of Windows in Kiyonori Kikutake’s Serizawa Literary Center (Serizawa Kojiro Memorial Museum)
Numazu, Shizuoka—the birthplace of Kojiro Serizawa, the author known for works such as Ningen no Unmei [The Fate of a Human]. Nestled in a pine forest beside Suruga Bay is the Serizawa Literary Center…
25 Dec 2024
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The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…
The International Christian University’s campus plan was originally designed by W. M. Vories & Co. and later developed by Antonin Raymond. The Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel, whi…
28 Aug 2024
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The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4
After resuming his creative activities with his new firm, Jean Prouvé Constructions, Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille in a project he had been working on concurrently with the V…
18 Jul 2024
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
The Awazu House, designed by Hiroshi Hara, now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this home and atelier of world-famous graphic designer Kiyoshi …
26 Apr 2024
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Chochikukyo
Located in the foothills of Mount Tennozan, overlooking the headwaters of the Yodogawa River in Yama…
27 Feb 2025
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Summer House in Karuizawa
Relocated to Karuizawa Taliesin in 1986, this distinctive butterfly-roofed building was originally d…
27 Feb 2025
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ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall / ICU Chapel
The ICU Diffendorfer Memorial Hall has continuous windows with frames made of cast aluminum. The com…
27 Feb 2025
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Aichi University of the Arts Lecture Building
This building extends 110 meters in the north-south direction, establishing a strong axis at the hea…
27 Feb 2025
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Migishi Atelier
This early work of Japanese wooden modernist architecture was built for the painter couple Kotaro an…
27 Feb 2025
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House, now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum, stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa, a suburban neighborhood in Kyoto’s Sakyo Ward with open views of Mou…
15 Jan 2024
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. François Charbonnet, one of its co-principals, formerly taught as a visiting professor at ETH Zurich a…
25 Jan 2024
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Windows of the Aichi University of the Artsby Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura:The Concrete Science of Living with Nature
The Aichi University of the Arts was built to the designs of Junzo Yoshimura and Akio Okumura in 1966. Situated in the forested hills of Nagakute, Aichi, the campus was planned with consideration of e…
19 Jan 2024
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Katsura Catholic Church
Completed in 1965, the Katsura Catholic Church in Kyoto is known as the only George Nakashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of the main building is composed simply of a thin, rhomboid hype…
12 Jan 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
12 Sep 2023
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KATONO House
Located on the outskirts of Sapporo, this single-story modernist building, constructed with weatheri…
27 Feb 2025
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Double Vision
Selecting “wallpaper” or organizing files on a “desktop” are now familiar acts that can either take place on our digital devices or in our living rooms. Through the screen’s interface, we gain access …
06 Jul 2023
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Alvar Aalto Living room of Mäntylä
This is the living room of a house designed for a senior engineer at the Tampella factory in Inkeroinen, an area that thrived on the wood industry. An array of 20 square double-layered windows covers …
14 May 2024
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate, the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo designed by renowned Hokkaido architect Tetsu Katono (1924–2009) …
12 Apr 2023
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
Herzog & de Meuron, the Basel-based architectural duo, founded their firm in 1978 after studying architecture at ETH Zurich. They have since designed numerous prominent projects worldwide, such as…
24 May 2023
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Kunié Sugiura – My Window
A window is a structure that lets light into a room and provides a view of the outside world, but when windows appear in photographs, they are often there to serve as a background or explanation for t…
02 Mar 2023
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Terunobu Fujimori | 004: The French Windows of the Glover House: Arrivals from India
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
20 Feb 2023
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
There are now around 580,000 native Taiwanese (the term used in Chinese. In Japan, it seems the term “indigenous” is often used), representing 2.5% of the Taiwanese population. The governm…
09 Mar 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin founded EMI Architekten in Zurich in 2005. The office has developed a particular focus on housing and urban design in Switzerland through numerous…
15 Dec 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
24 Aug 2022
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2005 (held at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), YOSHIMURA was featured in NHK…
30 Mar 2022
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective GROUP completed a partial renovation of its interior wall…
01 Apr 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
24 Mar 2022
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The Yosuitei06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08 Nijiriguchi, 09/10 Shitajimado and Renjimado
06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado Another instance where Enshu used his favorite combination of an upper shitajimado (exposed lath window) and lower renjimado (slatted window). This shitajimado has a w…
04 Dec 2021
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The Yosuitei01/02 Shikishimado
01/02 Shikishimado A shikishimado (lit. “calligraphy board window”) is a type of window composed of a stacked pair of openings that are shifted off-axis, and it is named based on its appearance. It ge…
01 Dec 2021
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The Yosuitei04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado
04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado Enshu liked to stack shitajimado (exposed lath window) on top of renjimado (slatted window), and he has done so in three places at the Yosuitei. This shitajimado has a …
03 Dec 2021
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
09 Dec 2021
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
The Prouvé House is an intriguing example of a building that was made by piecing together leftover parts from past projects. In the second article of this series, Shin Yokoo examines how Prouvé incorp…
22 Oct 2021
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The trains enter and leave from the double-opening wooden doors at the front. The doors can be fixed open …
07 May 2021
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A Conversation with Gion A. Caminada
Vrin is a village of fewer than 250 people nestled in a lush valley in the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It is also the home of architect Gion A. Caminada, who has designed many buildin…
15 Feb 2021
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture, built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior features double sliding sweep-out windows along the corridors …
20 Jan 2021
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants, with a ceiling of approximately 9.5 m high. The fabrics dyed on t…
02 Dec 2020
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Chapter 3: The viewfinder—transparency and voyeurism from Albrecht Dürer to Ai Weiwei
Every representational image ever made is necessarily a finite framing of the outside world, a viewfinder presenting only what the creator wants us to see. This finite point of view is configured insi…
08 Oct 2020
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A Combining City: Cairo
I got on a plane in Jordan and flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was my first time on the African continent. Though most capitals are busy, Cairo seemed especially so. Just walking from my hotel out into the s…
15 Jul 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
The Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), led by architect Momoyo Kaijima, conducted a series of interviews with architects based in Switz…
17 Jun 2020
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Chapter 2: The frame – the window as optical device or trompe l’oeil from Mantegna to Ryan Gander
Whether facing outwards to the world or inwards to the self, an artist is often restrained by the framing device of the window—unable to break free from a rectilinear box or blank surface that demands…
03 Feb 2020
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Boa Nova Restaurant
The windows of a lounge designed by Alvaro Siza in Porto, facing a rocky outcropping that looks out onto the Atlantic Ocean, covered on all sides by low-hanging eaves. Inside, a series of sofas and ta…
21 Aug 2017
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A Desert below Sea Level — Turpan, Part 3
What I learned from these grape-drying huts was that the key to a dwelling in a desert below sea level was creating shadows by bricks, poplar, and a few branches and leaves as well as ventilating the …
19 Apr 2017
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Sash Window
A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels vertically over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding window, where both the top and bottom panels move. These so…
12 Jun 2019
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Red Wine from the Terraced Fields of the Bormida Valley
The Bormida Valley is located in the southern part of Piedmont, a region in northwestern Italy located about two hours by car from Genova. Because the valley is at a high elevation of 400-800m, the te…
28 May 2019
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Double Sliding Window
A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels horizontally over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding window, where both the left and right panels move. This s…
15 May 2019
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Halaszbastya
The window of a café in Budapest, Hungary. The Neo-Romanesque window is comprised of a double layer of arches around which tables and chairs are arranged. ,Halaszbastya Cafe / Budapest, Hangary / Cfb …
22 May 2017
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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, for around 300 years. The current building was constructed during the Edo Period. A cover was late…
02 Apr 2019
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Hidaka Training and Research Center (JRA)/Window of the Horse Track
Located on the premises of the JRAʼs production, training, and research center, an approximately 1500-hectare ranch in the Hidaka region, which is Japanʼs largest producer of horses, this facility is …
19 Feb 2019
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Gordon Matta-Clark and Apertures
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is currently featuring the exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Mutation in Space. Matta-Clark graduated from Cornell University, where he had majored in architectur…
17 Sep 2018
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Takekobo/Window of the Bamboo Workshop
A bamboo workshop in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, established about 140 years ago. To be able to open its narrow front window as widely as possible, the sliding storm shutters are built in the form of la…
05 Feb 2019
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America (3)
Development of Various Styles As settlers throughout America gained affluence, they developed a wide variety of housing styles, including the Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Vict…
16 Mar 2017
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Zhangcun, “needs of underground” Part 1
A square hole on dry, ocherous land. ,People live inside that hole. ,I stopped in on the village of Zhangcun in Sanmenxia City, Henan. It is located within the Loess Plateau (or the Huangtu Plateau), …
09 Dec 2016
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“Placing” a Home: East Gilan, Iran (Part 1)
Iran was an unknown land to me before I visited it myself. My vague image of it had been of a desolate desert dotted with ancient remains. And so I was surprised to learn that Iran, like Japan, had ar…
14 Dec 2018
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Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store
This restaurant in Tomonoura, Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glass doors; on the raised tatami flooring inside, staff receiv…
21 Dec 2018
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans in Louisiana, while Germans in Pennsylvania settled area…
28 Feb 2017
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
movie “The Birth Canal” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components between pillars. Specifically, the hashirama equipment i…
17 Jan 2017
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Vino Santo in Trentino
Drive a car east from Milan, go north through Verona and you will see the largest lake in Italy, Lake Garda. Continue running north along the lake and you will arrive in Trentino. This is a province l…
23 Oct 2018
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Mido Cafe
The windows of a restaurant in Kowloon. The windows protrude out from the corner of the building. Inside, tables and chairs are lined up along the windows. The upper parts are awning windows, while th…
24 Jan 2017
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Mu’s Mansion Hotel
The windows of a hotel in Li Jiang. Three sets of double-casement windows are lined in a row, the upper part of which are latticed. The swastika-shaped lattice is called manji, believed to originate f…
10 Jan 2017
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
To commemorate the opening of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (May 26th-November 25th, 2018), the Window Research Institute caught up with architect Momoyo Kaijim…
07 Jun 2018
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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
Chashitsu or the Japanese tea room was a unique architecture that was built without any expressive ornaments at a time when rich ornamentation was a general trend in architecture. While its main prota…
17 May 2018
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How Technology Changes the Future of Windows
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer who has completed numerous architectural projects worldwide. Having served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT from 2010 to 2014, he is n…
06 Sep 2016
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Iwanoi Shuzo/Window of the Sake Brewery
This is a sake (rice wine) brewery that was established in Morioka, Iwate, in 1917. Its kura (storehouse) was built later during the second quarter of the 20th century. The brewery was established by …
24 Aug 2018
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MOMAT Collection “Windows and Photography”
The Windows and Photography exhibition was held as a part of MOMAT Collection from May 24 to August 7, 2016. Photographer Takashi Homma, who has explored the relationship between photos and windows to…
06 Sep 2016
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Tove Jansson’s Window
Photographer Takashi Homma introduces some compelling windows spliced between his own photos and text. Part 1 of this series delivers five photos – one of which is never before seen – plus an exclusiv…
06 Sep 2016
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Hoi Truong Thong Nhat
A window of the Reunification Palace (built on the site of the former Norodom Palace) in Ho Chi Minh City. Three continuous floors of rotating windows in the double-skin façade work together for the a…
06 Mar 2018
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Office in Kuala Lumpur
The windows of an office building designed by Kevin Low on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Lounge spaces such as a smoking area sit in the space between the windows and concrete block composing the dou…
06 Feb 2018
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Fresca
The window of a restaurant in Mykonos, Greece. A set of table and chairs are arranged within the low-ceiling alcove around the window. A set of double-casement windows has been removed from its frame,…
19 Dec 2017
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la fenêtre à la française
Six years have passed since I arrived in Paris. Although my daily life has been changing and evolving every moment, Paris has kept the skyline since it has been built. The scenery of the small windows…
17 Sep 2015
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WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition
The Tokyo Midtown Design Hub Special Exhibition titled WINDOWSCAPE: A Windowology Exhibition—The Research Behind the Milano Salone Exhibit was held at the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub from May 31 to June …
23 Apr 2014
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Window Bookcase (1)
This project started when we commissioned o+h, the young wife-and-husband team of architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, to design a bookcase for us. This is the first article in a series of entries…
17 Dec 2014
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Willow Tearooms
The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twenty-two fixed and double-swing windows makes a slight curve, creating a large opening onto the street…
28 Nov 2014
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Cafe in Suzhou
Windows on the second floor of a café in Suzhou. The waist-high double-lattice windows repeat along the façade, allowing for tables to be set against the wall. With one table per window, the tables fo…
28 Nov 2014
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Suleymaniye Camii
The window of a mosque in Istanbul. The space around the window becomes an alcove, into which people can enter. On the interior, a wooden door allows for the opening and closing of the alcove space. O…
10 Oct 2017
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Lou Kao Mansion
A window in Mandarin’s House in Macau. The continuous double casement windows are fitted with red, blue and white stained glass; above them is transom window that allows for the flow of air. A shallow…
07 Sep 2015
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Shizuka Yokomizo + Takashi Homma The Origin of the Idea
One of artist Shizuka Yokomizo’s emblematic works is her Stranger series, in which she has used photography to capture the distance between herself and others across windows. The artist’s personal exp…
26 Sep 2016
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Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
The windows of a hotel and museum in Georgetown, on Penang Island. Originally the house of a Chinese merchant, the blue wall is based on ideas from feng shui. The wooden double-windows line the entire…
16 Jun 2015
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Zhenchenglou
Windows of the Hakka walled villages, a traditional Chinese circular residential form. The entrance is fitted with a waist-high door, above which is a ceramic screen. Next to it is a window with a ver…
26 May 2015
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Windows as media — why we find looking through windows intriguing?—
We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train, on an airplane, or in a café are always popular, and we cannot help but look out of window during a meeti…
24 May 2019
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Lantern Shop in Hoi An
The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden, louvered double casement windows are fitted not with glass, but with built-in folding countertops. Shop goods are crammed onto the counter and arou…
28 Apr 2015
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Brand & Advise Office
The windows of a design office in Lisbon’s old district of Chiado. Tall, thin windows that span two floors repeat across the façade. A mezzanine floor faces a double-heighted space in front of the win…
09 Mar 2015
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Window Bookcase (2)
This is the second entry on the Window Bookcase Project. We at the Window Research Institute asked o+h, the architectural practice of Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, to produce a furniture piece that ca…
01 Apr 2015
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Steel House
“En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016, one of the world’s largest modern architecture festivals. How are …
27 May 2016
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
The aperture in Japanese architecture is the “ma,” or “space between objects.” The aperture in western architecture is the “hole.” What is it in Chinese architecture, then? This is a study on the as o…
08 Mar 2018
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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally recognized projects and continues to propose new possibilities for architecture. We asked him about the…
14 Jan 2014
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. We will start…
28 Mar 2018
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Vol. 3: Windows in English
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. In Volume 3, …
30 Aug 2018