About 30 projects of the last 3 -5 years will be introduced. Projects will be listed in alphabetical order to the architects and designers, presented in a very clear layout. Plans show the layout of the buildings and single rooms.

Tokyo constitutes the most populated metropolitan area on the planet; it houses 33 million inhabitants who get around on the world's most complex railroad system, as well as enjoying the highest number of restaurants per inhabitant in the world. It is also, possibly,the megalopolis with the highest proportion of recent architecture. Despite the fact that Tokyo's origins date back to the 17th century _ when it was known as Edo _ and that it went through a golden age at the end of the 19th century after being declared the capital of Japan, little remains of its original architecture as a result of two significant events that almost completely destroyed it: an earthquake in 1923, which triggered plans for a rebuilding programme that proved unfeasible due to the high cost, and the bombardments of World War II, which almost halved the population. The intense economic development that took place after the war gave rise to a modern city that stands out on account of its complex infrastructures, its large surface area and the mixture of avant-garde architecture and remains of the original layout of the old metropolis. In no other city are the boundaries between inside and outside, public and private,up and down as blurred as in Tokyo; this lack of frontiers has shaped an urban setting without parallel which is reflected equally by the most state-of-the-art skyscraper and the most intimate store. This amalgam of architectural typologies has established itself as a ref-erence point for designers from all over the world.

Ateliers Jean Nouvel Dentsu Tower

Albert Abut/Atlantis Associates Extension of French Japanese High School

Albert Abut/Atlantis Associates Hakuiu Hall

Gwenael Nicolas/Curiosity Mars The Salon Aoyama

Gwenael Nicolas/Curiosity Me Issey Miyake

Gwenael Nicolas/Curiosity Tag Heuer

Fumita Design Office ere

Fumita Design Office M-premier BLACK

Fumita Design Office Nissan Gallery Ginza

Fumita Design Office Star Garden

Glamorous Cabaret

Glamorous Ginto Restaurant

Herzo8 & De Meuron Prada Aoyama Epicenter

Intentionallies Hotel Claska

Intentionallies Lounge O

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Nihonbashi 1-Chome Building

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Roppongi Hills

Postnormal Addition

Propeller Integraters, Yoshihiro Kawasaki ASK Tokyo

Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garcons

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Maison Hermes

Ron Arad Associates Y's Store

Tomoyuki Sakakida Hair Salon Musee

Torafu Architects Spinning Objects

Toyo Ito & Associates TOD'S

Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama Bape Cuts

Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama Bapy Aoyama

Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama BEAMS T Harajuku

Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama inhabitant

Wonderwall Masamichi Katayama PIERRE HERMIE

Yasui Hideo Atelier Club Now

Yasui Hideo Atelier Gensai-lchijyo

Yasui Hideo Atelier Hare Nochi Hare Sugamo