Ryue Nishizawa has brought the outside indoors to create several new “worlds” in which to showcase the art work of a Japanese master.

Fuse Atelier’s sculptural house on a narrow site makes clever use of cantilevered upper rooms to create a surprisingly large interior.

Japanese design group Nendo’s acrylic shelving unit will tidy your stuff while shattering it into pieces – using an intriguing optical illusion.

Kengo Kuma’s cantilevered timber bridge pays passing tribute to Isozaki and postmodernism but sits comfortably in its traditional rural context.

Fuse Atelier’s sculptural house on a narrow site makes clever use of cantilevered upper rooms to create a surprisingly large interior.

The architect Toyo Ito’s gallery for his own work on the Japanese island of Omishima is poignant, mysterious and far from self-aggrandising.

Koji Tsutsui’s mountainside retreat is a flexible arrangement of larch-clad rooms “plugged in” to a winding internal alleyway.

This home in Japan derives its unusual shape from the tough local climate – and has some clever ways of keeping family life storm-free too.

LA architecture practice Hirsuta investigate hairy buildings in a show at Sci-Arc, Studio Makkink and Bey curate Industrious Artefacts in the Netherlands, Les Figues Press stage a literary festival at Hollywood’s Schindler House, and the Geffrye Museum offers us a real view of the Japanese home.

A billionaire philanthropist’s installation seamlessly fuses art, architecture and nature on the Japanese island of Naoshima.