We are proud to announce that “House with a View of Harbor and Sunset; FUNAGURA, “ one of the Den-Paku inns that TEKUTO renovated, received the Guest Review Awards 2017 of Booking.com!
Competition for the COMMUNITY CENTER IN NEPAL is now on a call for entry! Yasuhiro Yamashita from Atelier TEKUTO is honored to be a jury member.
Nepal, its environment has a difficult aspect for its development with a complex topography and a rough climate.
In addition, the country was hit by the terrible earthquake in 2015, and it is still in the midst of recovery.
The competition is encouraged to design the COMMUNITY CENTER IN NEPAL, which helps the rebuilding the country by using local materials and technology. The winning work will be actually planned to be built in mountainous area about 20 km from Kathmandu.
Eligibility : Students and young architects less than 3 years after graduation. Register now!
An article on our micro-house project, R・Torso・C, was published on ArchDaily.com.
Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier TEKUTO flew to Guangzhou, China’s third largest city today. There, he will take part in a three-day international forum, “2017 Guangzhou International Design Forum,” (November 9-11, 2017) as the only Japanese lecturer.
This international forum is sponsored by Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government, Guangzhou Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Committee, and also by China’s largest architecture magazine, “Urban Environmental Design(UED).”
Thomas Herzog and Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects) are among the international speakers participating on the first day.
Yamashita will speak tomorrow, at a sub forum titled “Art Into City: Public Space & Public Art Forum” and his theme is “The Philosophy of Zen and Creative Architecture.”
An article about our ACI(American Concrete Institute) Overall Excellence Award winning micro-house project, R.Torso.C appeared on Dwell.com.
“A Concrete Micro-House in Japan Works All the Angles”
Atelier TEKUTO’s work “R・Torso・C “ won the OVERALL EXCELLENCE AWARD and first place in the Low Rise Buildings Category in 2017 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, hosted by ACI (American Concrete Institute) .
The acknowledgement of eco-friendly, sustainable SHIRASU CONCRETE, developed together with Prof. Noguchi of Tokyo University and structural engineer Jun Sato, along with other collaborators, is a great honor. We hope that it will bring much-needed attention to the depletion of natural resources for concrete.
Previous winners of this prize were, Italian Pavilion Expo 2015(Milan, Italy) by Nemesi & Partners, and Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Marseille, France) by Rudy Ricciotti.
https://www.concrete.org/news/newsdetail.aspx?f=51701216
R・torso・C was introduced in Italian magazine “AREA”.
AREA (vol.151) p.045 – 057
There was an exhibition at Stockholm University on the projects done by Atelier Tekuto, by a student who has chosen TEKUTO’s projects for her curatorial work.
It’s an honor that she has chosen architecture as her exhibition theme, and Yamashita-TEKUTO out of million architects existing.
Exhibision Catalogue
R・torso・C was shortlisted in 2016 WAN Concrete Award.
“This year’s panel were: Chiaki Arai, Founder of Chiaki Arai Urban & Architecture Design, Jason Parker, Partner at Make Architects, Elaine Toogood, Senior Architect at The Concrete Centre and Simon Anson, Architect and Associate at Arup.
Once the jury had selected the six shortlisted projects it became very apparent that more than one winner would be named. The projects have very different qualities, but are both fine examples of fantastic use of concrete in architecture.”
Although we did not win the final, we are delighted that our work towards the environment is recognized in the international concrete award.
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R・torso・C is featured in METROPOLIS
An article on R・torso・C was published by The Concrete Society(UK) “Concrete Engineering International Magazine, August 2016”.
“Concrete Engineering International Magazine, August 2016” p26-27
