Kuri is a new monk residence for a Buddhist temple by Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates.
The temple in question, Chushinjji, is located in the Japanese Alps and dates back 550 years. Dezeen posts a gallery of photos of the finished residence/office, including details on the project from Miyamoto.
Kuri at Chushinji Temple by Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates [Dezeen]
Following the very successful launch of the Tokyo and New York Art Beat apps for iPhone — the Tokyo version has been a constant presence in the Japan store’s top 10 for paid apps — TAB co-creator Paul Baron gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create them.
Patrick Macias digs up a few replica gun ads from the early seventies, most of them clearly aimed at children.
Bape has teamed up with Case Study Shop for a series of items, including the Eames Chair pictured.
School Road Vol. 1 is a new photo book from Plancton featuring photography based around the routes taken by school children during their daily commute.
Kyoto-based designer — and SNOW contributor — Bianca Beuttel points us to the Shovel creative gatherings in Osaka.
Thomas Antonietti’s new series of events, COLORS, returns for a second edition at M in Daikanyama, this time with “pink” as the theme.
Shizuoka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto (Kyouei) will have his Water Clock join the “State of Things – Design and the 21st Century” exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel (until May 15).
Information Architects (iA) has started work on the follow-up to its Web Trend Map series, this year to cover the world of Twitter (instead of domains).
