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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.

SEE SEA Park / Osamu Morishita Architect & Associates

Hana Abdel — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0000

At the end of the summer of 2019, I visited Ohi-town in Fukui prefecture, surrounded by the soothing sounds of Higurashi (clear-toned)cicada. The site is located on well-maintained coastal reclaimed land and is on the spatial flow connecting the sea and the mountainous area. Warm but humid, soft, gentle air wrapped me up. The concept idea was to create a comfortable environment where people could gather. This project was selected through a competition held by the local government. The main requirement of the proposal was to develop a “challenge shop, etc.” where people can innovate and develop new businesses.

Fujita Coffee / Osamu Morishita Architect & Associates

Hana Abdel — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0000

We aimed for such an architecture that pulls people and involves them into a spiral and sublimates them. It is located in Higashiosaka City, Japan, where the structure of Lowertown is concentrated, along the elevated railroad track that was once a freight line. We have created a plan centered around a coffee roasting machine in such a glamorous city where people's activities and lives intersect with chaos, and the flow of people rolls up around it.

123 Steps / MASA Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

A common space like a piazza.

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.

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.