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Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Disignu d'Interiori Competition Category.


ArgentuInteriori· 2024

Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu

by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Interiori Category

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The Design

About Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu

Kashiwa Sato hà offrittu a direzzione creativa per u disegnu internu di u novu quartiere generale glubale di Takeda Pharmaceutical. Hà creatu un flussu da l'entrata è a ricezzione à a zona di travagliu, cuntendu una storia di a vita umana cù icone muderni raffinati di ottu kanji per a vita, l'acqua, a luce, a terra, l'arburu, a ghjente, e cunnessione, è l'avvene, chì rapprisentanu l'essenza di Takeda, riflettendu la in u disegnu spaziale. Hà trasmessu l'imagine di marca di a cumpagnia, criendu un locu induve i partiti interessati ponu sparte a visione di l'avvene.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argentu

Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Takeda Global Headquarters Uffiziu hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.

Behind the Design

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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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