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The Edge of the Wood

The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a winner of the 2019 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.

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The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop by Tetsuya Matsumoto Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2019

The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop

How can architecture represent a culinary concept? The Edge of the Wood is an attempt to respond to this question. Inami Koro is reinventing the traditional Japanese Udon dish while keeping the common techniques for preparation. The new building reflects their approach by revisiting the traditional Japanese wooden constructions. All contour lines expressing the shape of the building were simplified. This includes the glass frame hidden inside the thin wooden pillars, the roof and ceiling inclination rotated, and the edges of vertical walls all being expressed by a single line.

The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop by Tetsuya Matsumoto Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2019
Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2019 The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop
The Edge of the Wood designed by Tetsuya Matsumoto
The Edge of the Wood - Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
Tetsuya Matsumoto's The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop
Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2019 The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop
The Edge of the Wood designed by Tetsuya Matsumoto
The Edge of the Wood - Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
Tetsuya Matsumoto's The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop

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The Edge of the Wood by Tetsuya Matsumoto

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Udon Restaurant and Shop


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The Edge of the Wood Udon Restaurant and Shop

The Edge of the Wood is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. The Edge of the Wood is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Edge of the Wood creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.


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Tetsuya Matsumoto

Tetsuya Matsumoto

Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards and became a jury member for several prestigious prizes.

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Miki City.

Miki City.

The earliest residents of Miki who arrived more than 1300 years ago lived along the banks of the Minogawa River. In 1954, Miki declared itself a city after the four main towns amalgamated under a single local government. And Miki enlarged its size by merging with Yokawa in 2005.Today Miki boasts many attractive facilities that promote cultural, social, and recreational activities such as Horse Land Park, Mikiyama Forest Park, Greenpia Miki, and the Yamada-Nishiki-no-Sato.


Winner Brand

KTX archiLAB by MATSUYA ART WORKS.Co.Ltd.

KTX archiLAB by MATSUYA ART WORKS.Co.Ltd.

Design your solution. architecture design, interior design, landscape design

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