Where the Soul Sleeps
Where the Soul Sleeps Columbarium by Shunsuke Ohe is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Where the Soul Sleeps is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
Explore This Amazing WorkWhere the Soul Sleeps Columbarium
A columbarium attached to a temple.It was designed and constructed with respect for Japanese traditions, inheriting traditional Japanese designs and techniques. The first thing you see when you enter the building is the elliptical symbolic monument with a three dimensional curved surface. It is lit by spotlights installed on the ceiling and floor. Another highlight is the wooden coffered ceiling, which is equipped with indirect lighting that emits light toward the ceiling from all four sides. It also incorporates modern elements, making it a design that blends old and new.
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Where the Soul Sleeps by Shunsuke Ohe
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Columbarium
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2025.
Bronze Winner
Where the Soul Sleeps Columbarium
Where the Soul Sleeps is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Where the Soul Sleeps is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Where the Soul Sleeps splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Shunsuke Ohe
CEO and founder of LUSTYdesign Inc. He became interested in architecture and interior design at an early age and began studying architecture and interior in earnest at the age of 15. He is involved in architectural design, interior design and interior coordination for hotels, houses, stores, offices and showrooms. He is always working on design, thinking about what is a design that makes people's hearts flutter.
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Shunsuke Ohe
Established in 2012 in Japan. They work seamlessly in architectural design, interior design and interior coordination. So far, they have designed projects such as private homes, hotels, nurseries, restaurants, fitness gyms, offices, showrooms and sweets shops. They work on the theme of "life with design"
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