Recruit Umeda Office Interiors by Good Place is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2025
Recruit Umeda Office Interiors
by Good Place
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Recruit Umeda Office Interiors
Recruit Umeda is dedicated to fostering a dynamic and innovative work environment, with a focus on forging connections across different domains, given that there are over 3000 employees. The office layout has been meticulously planned to optimize balance between concentration and communication by promoting a sound environment and facilitating visual flow. There are dedicated spaces to encourage casual interactions and collaboration, embodying the essence of Osaka and promoting a sense of community.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Recruit Umeda Office Interiors is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Recruit Umeda Office Interiors is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recruit Umeda Office Interiors is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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We transform workplaces into dynamic environments that foster communication and productivity. Our Scene Design methodology aligns spatial design with your business goals, creating offices where teams thrive. With expertise in large-scale office projects, we craft spaces that inspire innovation and collaboration.
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- Unique Properties
- Located in a 41-story skyscraper, Recruit Umeda has four floors of office areas and two break room.
In this project, we focused on building "connections" between people and areas by incorporating the characteristics of Osaka, the location of the office, functional needs, and environmental considerations. The goal was to facilitate "cross-floor connections and acquaintances in other areas" through communication born from the office. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 11803.17sqm
33F: 20100mm×85000mm×2800mm - Tags
- Office OfficeInterior, Workplace, Workspace, OfficeDesign, Communication
- Production Technology
- The refresh space designated as "CO-EN (33)" on the 33rd floor has been planned with the concept of "Zoning according to the depth of communication" to create an environment conducive to business development. The space will feature a communication board and a semi-circular counter, serving as the starting point for conversations. The variety of fixtures will ensure the space can accommodate a range of users, communication levels, and activities.
- Design Challenge
- Concurrently, the company modified the layout of other sites in response to a client's request to convert more than 600 pieces of furniture, including desks, chairs, sofas, and cabinets, from sites across the country to reduce environmental impact. There was a concern that the overall balance might be lost due to the repurposing of a large number of furniture with different tastes, but we were able to design without losing the sense of uniformity of the design by making various efforts such as painting the legs.
- Research
- Regarding the research on the office renovation, an employee satisfaction survey was first conducted to define the problems. We were concerned about the difference between Recruit's goal and the Umeda base, which were described as follows: the office is too large and versatile, thus people do not know about what other teams do, and it was lacking communication. To address these problems, we established three measures: "Community," "Collaboration," and "Osaka-ness."
- Inspiration
- In order to accentuate the distinctiveness of each location, a design that underscores the unique qualities of Osaka was implemented. Given Osaka's historical significance as a vibrant merchant town and its notable features such as food culture and humor, zoning to promote communication was featured. A diverse color palette has been employed to create an engaging and dynamic environment, with dialects from Osaka incorporated into the design following consultation with native speakers.
- Project Duration
- The design phase commenced in October 2023 and concluded in September 2024, with construction commencing in May 2024 and being finalized in November in Osaka.
- Operation Flow
- In order to optimize the work environment and improve productivity, it is essential to provide a sound-environment-friendly space. This is particularly important in open work areas. On the same floor, both call centers and quiet focus areas are situated in close proximity, though they are not directly adjacent to each other. To foster an environment where employees in both areas are happy, meeting spaces and low partitions have been strategically placed between them.
- Team Members
- Designer: Kazushi Iwamoto
PM: Chika Tanaka
PM: Shota Kariya
PM: Hanako Tanaka
PM: Ayako Motoki
PM: Kanon Takeuchi
PM: Kazuma Kubo
CM: Yusuke Miki
CM: Fukutaro Takeda
CM: Ryoga Shirakawa
CM: Nana Oshima
CM: Yuta Sawano
Director: Naoto Doi - Image Credits
- Keiko Chiba （Nacasa ＆ Partners）
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