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House in Shankujii: A Small House with Two Large Openings and Large-Scale Windows

This small house is designed by Kubo Tsushima Architects for a young couple and their three kids. House in Shankujii is located in a residential district near a station in the Nerima Ward of Tokyo with 85 m2 in size. In this area, houses on small plots of land are packed densely together. This house has two large openings while the design incorporates large-scale windows.

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Funabashi Postoffice: A Post Office Building with Window as the Entrance of Communication

Located in Funabashi, Chiba with 144 m2 in size, Funabashi Postoffice is designed by Kubo Tsushima Architects. As a Japanese post office, this building is a facility dealing with deposit, postal, and insurance services closely on the daily lives’ needs of the local resident. The window is characterized, especially its architecture design, considered as the entrance of communication.

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Minami Yamashiro Elementary School: A Life-Long Learning Building with A Concrete Frame

Located in Kyoto, Japan, Minami Yamashiro Elementary School is commissioned by the mayor of Minami Yamashiro to reunite the local community. It is not only a school but also a community center. Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and completed in 2003, the result is a modern building with a concrete structure that offers life-long learning and evening classes for the community’s adult population and daytime schooling for children.