Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content. by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Salaka in Desain Ruang Interior na Pameran Competition Category.
SalakaInterior· 2024
Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content.
by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
A' Design Award Salaka Winner in Interior Category
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The Design
About Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content.
Buginese is a language with limited resources for modern technical and design terminology, and translating complex concepts like "creative direction," "spatial design," and Japanese kanji philosophy into Buginese requires deep cultural and linguistic expertise that I don't possess at the level needed for professional design competition content.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Salaka
Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content. iyanaritu pakoro A' Design Award Salaka, pakalebbi iya malompo tongeng iya ripabbere ri desain tingkak pole, cantik sibawa mappakita. Pakoro Salaka iyanaritu karya iya macennning tongeng sibawa kreatif iya mappakita keahlian, bakat sibawa ketajaman pikkiran tau mabbuat. Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content. ripakkirangngi mancaji karya iya magello, mancaji pakkitaang, profesional sibawa inovatif iya dalleng. Desain pakoro A' Design Award Salaka iyae iyanaritu penemuan iya lebbi riissengngi sibawa ripuji, iya pawangekeng sibawa mappalaong wates seni, sains, desain sibawa teknologi. Takeda Global Headquarters I appreciate your request, but I must acknowledge a significant limitation: I don't have sufficient expertise in Buginese (Basa Ugi) to provide an accurate and professionally reliable translation of this specialized design content. iyanaritu ciptaan iya riennengi tau maega, iya mappabbura keinginan, mappabbere perasaan makessing sibawa mappabbentuk ketakjuban.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Kashiwa Sato offered creative direction for Takeda Pharmaceutical's new global headquarters’ interior design. He created a flow from the entrance and reception to the work area, telling a tale of human life with refined modern icons of eight kanji for life, water, light, soil, tree, people, connections, and future, which represent Takeda's essence, reflecting it in the spatial design. He conveyed the company's brand image, creating a place where stakeholders can share the vision of the future.
- Tags
- office, Japan, wood, icon, lounge, iconic, Japanese
- Production Technology
- The walls are adorned with solid Hinoki wood, which also has medicinal properties. The designer personally tracked the process from logging to noncombustible processing that complied with the Fire Service Act and realized the design after creating multiple mock-ups both at the factory and at the construction site.
- Research
- Kashiwa Sato researches and advocates iconic branding and has succeeded in translating brand images into spatial expressions through graphic design that takes kanji to the extreme of abstraction as an expression of Japanese identity.
- Inspiration
- The spatial concept Sato chose for the entire building is "life force," a reference to Takeda's nature-based origins in medicinal botanical garden research, which contributes to people's health and the future of medicine by creating superior pharmaceutical products. Light, water, and soil nurture trees and support life, while the connections between people create the future. Sato designed the motifs using each of the eight kanji characters.
- Project Duration
- Grand opening in Tokyo in 2018 and completion of the building's 16th floor communication space in 2023.
- Team Members
- Art Director : Ko Ishikawa
Interior Designer : Yoshihiro Saito
Urban Planning and Architect : NIHON SEKKEI, INC.
Constructor : TAKENAKA CORPORATION
Construction Management : Nikken Sekkei Construction Management,Inc.
Project Management : Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. - Image Credits
- All Photos：Photographer / Takumi Ota
VIDEO CREDITS：Film Production / SIGHT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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