The kabuki-cho project, for Stuart became the first building project for RSH-P, it opened a deep routed fascination with technology and expression of form which remains a consistent theme today in the work of SFA.

‘The Kabuki-cho project provides a vivid example of a response to a very specific urban context - an area of small-scale streets close to Shinjuku commercial district. The site was extremely constrained, with daylight a precious commodity in the narrow road onto which the building fronts. Although the building is small in scale, great attention was paid to the detailing of the façade, using repetitive functional elements to define the lightweight language of the building.

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