Location: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Architects: Kiyonobu Nakagame & Associates
Engineers: Kanebako structural engineers
General contractor: Prolog
Completion date: September, 2007
Photographs: K.Torimura

Japanese architects Kiyonobu Nakagame have updated their website, showing work including House in Sendai-Kasumi. The house, overlooking the city of Sendai, was completed in September last year.

The house sits on the hill top that overlooks the city of Sendai, situated within the area called Yakiyama offering magnificent views of cliffs that rise from the Hirose River running at the bottom.

The site has an elongated configuration in a North/South orientation, adjoined by existing houses on …

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