M house on design boom!
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M House on design boom
Chatting on Archinect about COVID-19
Will chats with
Archinect on their always interesting podcast about being stuck in Toronto during the shutdown, teaching in Canada and Japan, and how the office is (still!) working during Covid.
Frontoffice in Toronto
A joint
exhibition with Carlo Parente at the gallery at
Ryerson University in Toronto.
frontoffice's partner, Christian Dimmer writes for the BBC!
Christian Dimmer, a partner in the office wrote a piece about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics for the
BBC
Jimenez Lai tokyo workshop 2019
Will invited
Jimenez Lai to a workshop in Tokyo, with the expected provocative results. Check it out on our
Facebook page
frontoffice talks about rendering with Kooz/Arch
A short but sweet look at the seizon project along with an interview on how we approach the presentation of our designs. Find out more on
Kooz/Arch
Oyamadai House Completed!
Check out the
Oyamadai House on Dezeen
Will co-edits book on Resilience
Will edited a
book on resilience with Professor Wanglin Yan at Keio University. Published by Springer Netherlands, it is a collection of chapters written by practitioners from multiple fields, all trying to develop a better approach to building resilience around the world.
Chatting on Archinect
Will joins the
Archinect podcast to talk with its hosts about the news of the day as well as his interview with British design collective
ASSEMBLE. Check out the
interview too, it's inspirational!
The secret to living small in Tokyo
Small living spaces are common in Tokyo and often they are cut up into even smaller spaces. Check out our alternative solution in the
Akasaka Flat , covered by Dezeen
Talking with Samira Boon
Will chatted with an great friend of the office, Samira Boon, during a vist to her
studio in Amsterdam
Still city project
Christian and Will both joined in with lectures and discussion for the Tokyo
Still-City Project, run by the Dutch-based think group,
MONNIK
frontoffice hosts Table for 12 in Tokyo
part of the eight city tour by Canadian architecture office
5468796, aimed at finding the secret to creative design around the world. Take a look at their
tokyo report for their impressions of the worlds largest megacity, and their
project website for the bigger story
Kesennuma Reconstruction Project exhibits at Open Research Forum, Tokyo MidtownAn ongoing project focusing on reconstruction after the disaster in Northern Japan. We are working on rebuilding the economy, developing a new planning typology, and developing a new energy paradigm for the region.
HA Tower wins World Architecture Award!
Chicago Athenaeum and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies selects frontoffice and the HA Tower for the global award
Still city project
Christian and Will both joined in with lectures and discussion for the Tokyo
Still-City Project, run by the Dutch-based think group,
MONNIK
New York TIMES
Our partner Christian Dimmer chimes in on
NY times article by Hiroko tabuchi, about the Zaha Hadid Stadium proposed for the 2020 Olympics
WAN residential award
HA tower shortlisted
for WAN residential award
Office Expansion
It's not the same as moving but pretty close. You can see our newly refurbished home
here
yoyogi house on TV
Long running architecture program, Tatemono Tanbou, devotes episode to the Yoyogi House (Japanese)
part i
part ii