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House in Hieidaira by Tato Architects

Wooden steps lead to an attic with irregular sloping walls in this residence for an artist in Shiga, Japan, by Japanese studio Tato Architects. The wood-panelled attic space is connected to the main...

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House in Izumi-Ohmiya by Tato Architects

Japanese studio Tato Architects have converted a warehouse in Osaka into a house where residents can climb up the walls. Designed for a couple who enjoy rock-climbing in their spare time, the...

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House in Rokko by Tato Architects

This hillside house by Japanese studio Tato Architects comprises a metal barn on top of a glass box (+ slideshow). Located between a mountainous district and the harbour-side town of Kobe in southern...

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House in Futako-Shinchi by Tato Architects

Wooden stairs climb up through a narrow lightwell inside this house by Japanese studio Tato Architects. Located in Kanagawa, Japan, the house contains three storeys with split levels, some of which...

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House in Yamasaki by Tato Architects

The top floor rooms of this house in Japan by Tato Architects are contained inside sheds that sit on the roof (+ slideshow). Located in a residential area in Hyogo Prefecture, the house was designed...

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Hut with the Arc Wall by Tato Architects

These public toilets in Japan by Tato Architects comprise a single curved wall sheltered beneath a gabled roof (+ slideshow). The toilets were installed by Japanese architect Yo Shimada of Tato...

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House in Itami by Tato Architects

Wooden furniture forms sections of staircases at this house in Japan by Tato Architects (+ slideshow). Japanese studio Tato Architects incorporated items of furniture into the circulation and structure...

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House in Ishikiri by Tato Architects

Japanese studio Tato Architects references the ad-hoc extensions of neighbouring buildings with the steel, concrete and wooden volumes that make up this house in Osaka, Japan (+ slideshow). Located on...

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Dental Clinic in Nakayamate by Tato Architects

Treatment rooms sit within a translucent house-shaped enclosure at this dental clinic in Kobe, Japan, by Tato Architects (+ slideshow). Japanese studio Tato Architects started the renovation by...

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House in Kawanishi by Tato Architects with hipped roof and stilts

This house in Hyogo, Japan, was designed by Tato Architects with the same hipped roof, stilted structure and wide balcony that are common to residences in Queensland, Australia (+ slideshow). Yo...

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A staircase lands on a desk inside House in Hikone by Tato Architects

Forty-two identical windows puncture the exterior of this house in Japan by Tato Architects, which also features a staircase that leads onto a piece of furniture (+ slideshow). Tato Architects founder...

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Tato Architects updates a traditional Japanese house with a curved plywood...

Tato Architects has replaced all of the walls inside a traditional Japanese house with curving plywood screens (+ slideshow). Studio founder Yo Shimada was asked to renovate the single-storey residence...

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Tato Architects' House in Toyonaka is divided into offset horizontal volumes

This house in Osaka by Japanese studio Tato Architects features walls that step back and forth, worktops that merge with staircases, and windows that wrap around entire rooms (+ slideshow). With his...

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Tato Architects and Phorm Architecture combine Japanese and Australian design...

This hillside house in Brisbane, designed by Japanese studio Tato Architects and Australian office Phorm Architecture, features outdoor living spaces raised up on stilts. The client asked Yo Shimada of...

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Platforms function as tables and shelves inside Tato Architects' House in...

Japanese studio Tato Architects designed the interior of this house in Osaka as a single room containing angular platforms that perform multiple functions and are connected by a spiralling sequence of...

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Yo Shimada debuts coffee table made from basic DIY store materials

Japanese architect Yo Shimada of Tato Architects has designed a table intended to be made at home by consumers using standard materials bought from any DIY store. Called Utsuri, the small multi-layered...

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Huge sliding door reveals courtyard at House in Sonobe by Tato Architects

Japanese studio Tato Architects has built a house in the town of Sonobe, Japan, with a sunroom that can be opened up to the garden by sliding open a huge corrugated polycarbonate wall. The Kobe-based...

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House in Hokusetsu by Tato Architects is designed as a labyrinth

A geometric pattern of square-shaped rooms connected by rhombus-shaped circulation areas forms House in Hokusetsu, Osaka, by Japanese firm Tato Architects. Tato Archiects, led by architect Yo Shimada,...

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Tato Architects intermingles interior and exterior spaces at House in...

A simple gabled form clad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects. Tato Architects designed the...

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Pop-up pavilions for kissing and "dangerous play" draw attention to rules of...

Tato Architects and Dot Architects are among six studios that created pop-up pavilions at the Kyoto Art Center to examine the various prohibitions that apply to privately-owned public spaces in Japan....

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House in Takatsuki by Tato Architects has 16 different floor levels

A series of triangular and rectangular platforms create numerous floor levels inside this house in Osaka, Japan. Designed by Tato Architects, House in Takatsuki is a three-storey building containing 16...

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Tato Architects uses old barrels to clad exterior of home and shop

Wood salvaged from old miso barrels has been used to clad a house built by Tato Architects in Japan for the owner of a nearby brewery specialising in soy sauces. The home, which also includes a shop...

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