If you follow my Twitter feed, then you may have noticed all of the tweeting I was doing while in Kyoto this past weekend, and more importantly, adding the @hitotoki tag to all of those tweets. The reason is that I’m currently helping with the beta testing of the soon-to-relaunch Hitotoki, and as you can see, it now revolves around a strong Twitter component. I’ll just leave it at that for now, but if you want to be alerted when the site relaunches, you can sign up on the site, and follow them on Twitter as well.
If you like stark white interiors, I don’t think you can get much better than Hideyuki Nakayma Architecture‘s O House, located in Kyoto — see more of the interior in this post over at Designboom.
Beautiful new gallery in the city of Kyotanabe (near Kyoto) called Tanada Piece Gallery, featuring a rice field-inspired interior by Japanese architecture studio Geneto.
9h is a stunning new capsule hotel set to open next month in Kyoto, and designed by Fumie Shibata (a name readers of my “On Design” column will probably recognize, since I tend to cover a lot of her work). The name, 9h, refers to a suggested 9-hour stay (1 hour for shower, 7 hours to sleep, 1 hour for rest), although you can stay for up to 17 hours, at a price of 4,900 yen. Designboom posts a nice gallery of photos, including some great graphics on the accessories (toothbrushes, slippers) by Masaaki Hiromura.
Slit Court, a residential project in Kyoto by EASTERN Design Office. Via Dezeen.
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