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Vladimir Belogolovsky in conversation with Tokyo architect Toyo Ito.

Why Tokyo's elite are staging a backlash against the Olympics The pandemic has thrown plans into disarray, but the city's movers and shakers are reluctant to celebrate the games 24 July 2021 • 5:00am The opening ceremony finally got underway this week, after a year of delays and re-arranging Shigeru Kaneko pauses from tidying the coffee shop he has run for 45 years and recalls a favourite childhood memory: the moment he watched the jubilant opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. “I was just a schoolboy at the time,” smiles Kaneko, 70, a neatly-pressed Tokyo 2020 t-shirt peeking...

4 Remote Vacation Spots to Unplug and Recharge Nature-focused destinations connect guests to the land and the sea Words by: HD Staff • Photos by Giorgio Baroni, Avesh Gaur, Nacasa & Partners, and Noughts and Crosses The design team behind Italy's Terme di Saturnia derived the interior color palette from the turquoise hue of the natural pool The design team behind Italy's Terme di Saturnia derived the interior color palette from the turquoise hue of the natural pool Projects: Nature-focused destinations connect guests to the land and the sea Words by: HD Staff • Photos by Giorgi...

© Nacasa & Partners A new footbridge forms a subtle link and between the two complexes a new path meanders through the lush forest. And like ina fairy tale, halfway there is a wood clearing with a contemporary cottage: PokoPoko. Like an icon, from afar 3 roof conespoke out lightheartedly in different directions from the top of the trees. And this is where the building get’s it name from as‘poko poko’ means to stick-out or stick-up in Japanese. © Nacasa & Partners The newly built PokoPoko is a family oriented clubhouse and activity centre for the guests of the hotel. Each roof cone has...

Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a clubhouse and activity centre surrounded by forest for the Risonare Nasu hotel in rural Japan. Built near the town of Nasu in the shadow of the Mount Nasu volcanoes, the clubhouse is set within a forest clearing between the hotel's two existing accommodation blocks. The PokoPoko clubhouse is part of the Risonare Nasu hotel "The concept of the project was to create a fairytale building in a clearing of the forest," said Klein Dytham Architecture co-founder Mark Dytham. "We wanted the building to peek out between the trees and...