The influence of Japanese design on Robin Boyd’s work was not limited to his writing - throughout the 1960s, echoes of Japanese architecture would appear in Boyd’s built work. The earliest Japanese-inflected spaces predate Boyd’s first visit to the country - in particular, the dining room at the Black Dolphin Motel in Merimbula, designed in 1958. In the first half of the 1960s, most of this influence can be seen in interiors, as in the shoji-like screens of the Wright House II (1964). The overt influence of contemporary Japanese architecture in Boyd’s work shows up later, particularly around 1967. In this period Boyd researched and wrote New Directions, familiarising himself with the generation of Metabolists whose post-and-beam concrete aesthetic is echoed in the President Motor Inn (1968) and Benalla High School (1969). The unbuilt scheme for Carnich Towers in East Melbourne is the clearest example of the Metabolist influence on Boyd’s designs in this period. Boyd also completed one built work in Japan - the Space Tube component of the Australian Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka. Here, he worked with Yoshinobu Ashihara, the Japanese co-architect of the pavilion who Boyd knew from Ashihara’s time teaching at the University of New South Wales in 1966.