Shiro / Kuro

Takuya Hosokai is the Japanese architecture responsible for the edgiest and sexiest buildings I have seen recently, Shiro and Kuro.


'Kuro' is Japanese for 'black'.

“Kuro”
design: 1980 / Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori
Place: Fukui city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
program: residential house
Built: July, 2007






'Shiro' is Japanese for 'white'.

“Shiro”
design: 1980 / Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori
Place: Fukui city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
program: Beauty Salon
Built: June, 2006