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Architecture Now! Houses 3 Contemporary
Garden and House in Tokyo, designed by Ryue Nishizawa.
Photo by Flickr user Naoya Fujii, used under Creative Commons license.
Photo by Flickr user Naoya Fujii, used under Creative Commons license.
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Almost as striking is Ryue Nishizawa's Garden and House, also in Tokyo. The architect calls the house with four levels plus a roof a building without walls. There are some walls — fixed and sliding walls of glass — but their location and extents of enclosure vary from floor to floor, such that the ground floor is primarily enclosed but the third floor is all outdoors, minus a stair and a bathroom. Each floor is then a mix of indoor and outdoor, house and garden.