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KITO Yamanashi Head Office / Takenaka Corporation

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Environmental architecture with reference to grapevine trellises – Yamanashi is surrounded by various mountains such as Mt. Fuji, one of Japan's representative mountains, and is one of the few inland basins in the island nation of Japan. With long hours of sunshine, low annual precipitation, large daily temperature differences, and abundant water resources, grape cultivation has flourished in the region since ancient times, and today, grape trellises weave across the landscape.

Osaka Expo 2025 Foresting Architecture Pavilion / Takenaka Corporation

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

"Foresting Architecture" is a rest shelter to be built for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Rather than a building that becomes waste for an event lasting only six months, this is architecture that everyone creates together, uses carefully while maintaining, and finally returns to the soil to become a forest.

Sosho-Kan at Kyoto University of the Arts / Takenaka Corporation

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The new academic building of Kyoto University of the Arts, which sits across their main campus by Shirakawa Road - one of Kyoto's major north-to-south arteries - is accessible to many locally owned businesses and residential areas. The Sosho-kan building is designed to bring their newly established department to life. The four-year art education program serves as a place for students to study and embed their memories and sense of place with other students and faculty members.

Morinaga Shibaura Building / Takenaka Corporation

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

This project was designed for the office of a confectionery and food manufacturing company. The client's vision is to contribute to the realization of a sustainable world by providing wellness of mind, body, and environment to their customers, employees, and society. As a base for realizing their perspective, we designed their new office as the city's forest, where many species coexist, and named it "KAKUHAN-no-Mori," which means "the forest of mixing." Our ideal place was one where diverse nature and people inside and outside the company could mutually influence each other and expand their world, like mixing ingredients to make sweets and enjoying together.

Ibaraki City Cultural and Child-rearing Support Complex ONIKURU / Takenaka Corporation + Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by BUNGA NET – The Ibaraki City Cultural and Child-rearing Support Complex ONIKURU is a public complex with multiple functions, including a theatre, library, childcare support, civic center, and planetarium. The site is right in front of Ibaraki City Hall. The majority of the exterior is unfinished 'as-struck' concrete, with an emphasis on slabs and pillars, giving an impression of the 'Dom-Ino' system. The facade does not make a strong statement, and if you came here without knowing anything about it, you might think it was a branch building of the city hall.

Richmond Hotel Premier Kyoto-shijo / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Borderless view of Kyoto, A Microcosm of Our Time - Facing Shijo Street, where the Gion Festival, one of the three major festivals in Japan, we created a hotel that is set in the pleasant nature of Kyoto while maintaining a distance from the hustle and bustle of the city. The guestrooms are connected from Shijo Street by an exterior wall line with a glass facade of Japanese folding screen that extends into the city, allowing guests to enjoy the view of the Kyoto cityscape from inside. In a guest room with one of the highest ceilings in Kyoto, guests can enjoy a floating experience in the city.

Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Creating a pleasant city to walk in by designing multilayer streets that connect urban public spaces and architecture. Osaka Umeda Twin Towers South is an expansive urban complex with a total floor area of approximately 260,000 ㎡, consisting of a department store, offices, and conference halls, with 3 basement levels and 38 above-ground floors, in an integrated development across the city blocks. This project is a dynamic urban renewal initiative led by the vitality of a private company, centering the complex to create a comfortable city environment by improving the surrounding public facilities and maintaining them for the future.

The Pack Corporation Headquarters / Takenaka Corporation

Valeria Silva — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Here, the sense of oppression was reduced by dividing the ryume to harmonize with the scale of the surrounding area, and the privacy-conscious details of the openings and inner terrace created an open workplace while taking the neighborhood into consideration. The building was also designed to accommodate the process of growth (expansion) to keep pace with the metabolism of the city, with a view to future expansion.

Innovation Garden OSAKA Center / Takenaka Corporation

Andreas Luco — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Platform where People, Nature, and Information Interact. As the hub of Konica Minolta's imaging IoT/AI development and business creation in the Kansai area, this is a development base where diverse human resources gather. We wanted to create a patchwork of environments such as inside/outside, light/dark, movement/stillness, and open/closed, not by the type of furniture or interior design, but by the composition and planning of the architecture.

Miyashita Park / Takenaka Corporation + Nikken Sekkei

Hana Abdel — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:00:00 +0000

A New Era – A new take on Relaxation and Activation - In Japanese cities, urban development is dense and public facilities and amenities have evolved whereby multiple functions occupy the same land. This dense development also means that open spaces such as parks are treasured. Furthermore, in recent times public spaces are becoming commercial spaces and commercial spaces are becoming public spaces. This fusion of parks, commerce, and hotels has created a new synthesis of "relaxation" and "activity" that people have really come to desire. MIYASHITA PARK is a project that raises issues from both the public side and the commercial side about the ideal state of "public space" in this new era.

Daikin Ales Aoya Expansion / Takenaka Corporation

Andreas Luco — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:00:00 +0000

This is the planned expansion of the global training center (2008) for the Daikin industries, multinational air conditioning manufacturing company, and which has updated the overall character of the facility. It hosts skill trainers’ workshops or leadership development program as well as family recreational use and VIP reception use. The existing facility consists of classroom training block, lobby block, and accommodation block, and the expansion contains skill training block, foyer, and expansion of accommodation block.

Toyota Corolla Shinosaka Meishin Ibaraki Showroom / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Wed, 20 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

“A new geometry for a new era of Mobility”

Miura Showroom / Takenaka Corporation

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000

"3 STATES OF WATER" - Famous throughout Japan, for its water solutions, Miura Corporation requested a unique design that symbolized their brand and would impress visitors throughout the world.

Descente Innovation Studio Complex / Takenaka Corporation

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:00:00 +0000

SPEED IS ELEGANCE "That which is fast is always beautiful" These words express the true spirit of Descente, a company dedicated to designing for speed and form. The name Descente means to descend in French, and with a focus on the highest quality, the name is a symbol of the brand's bold spirit which is always one step ahead of the times. This spirit of Descente is being brought to the rolling hills and rich greenery of Saito, Osaka, a base area for many research labs, where a new research and development center for the brand is planned.

Asahi Facilities Hotarugaike Dormitory KAEDE / Takenaka Corporation

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:00:00 +0000

This is a project to create a company dormitory for single people. Each employee has their own hobbies and lifestyles. We planned this dormitory as the place they could build intimate relationships and communities within. The site is located in an old residential area. We divided the building volume into six as a three-story building with a reduced height so that it fits the scale of the surrounding houses.

Kakogawa Kindergarten / Takenaka Corporation

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Our client runs various types of schools from kindergarten to university on the campus. Thanks to the location, the site enjoys a rich environment; a pond, forest, parks, gardens and so on. Also, they are challenging to make an educational focal point for the local community by opening their educational environment. We answered them with our design concept “Forest-ness” which provides a porous open-air building connected to its surroundings.

Taiyokogyo / Takenaka Corporation

Daniela Cardenas — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:00:00 +0000

In the city of Sakai, Osaka, the site sits on the edge of a crowded residential section located in the middle of the Mozu Kofungun (a cluster of ancient tumuli) area.