It’s hard to think of a prettier set of apartments than this pastel-hued haven in Tokyo by the award-winning Japanese architect Kunihiko Hayakawa. A doyen of postmodern playfulness, Hayakawa is fascinated by the “landscapes that architecture produces” within its relationship to the city. For his various Tokyo-based creations, Hayakawa drew on what he described as the “floating, fragmented” quality of the capital’s existing cityscape, conjuring up structures that resemble giant stage sets, full of different lines and planes and shapes, defined by a variety colours.
