Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Takeda Global Headquarters Office by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Takeda Global Headquarters Office by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto, designed for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Takeda Global Headquarters Office
It offered creative direction for Takeda Pharmaceutical's new global headquarters’ interior design. The designer 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. It conveyed the company's brand image, creating a place where stakeholders can share the vision of the future.
About Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
Creative Director / Design Architect A leading Japanese creator whose creations embody brands iconically across many fields. Worked on projects with Uniqlo, Fuji Kindergarten, Nissin Foods' Kansai Factory, and GLP ALFALINK Sagamihara. As a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Management, he develops creative talent. Received numerous awards, including the Red Dot Design Award 2022 Best of the Best and the "Best of Best" award at the ICONIC AWARDS 2023. Appointed a Japan Cultural Envoy by the Agency for the Cultural Affairs of Japan for 2016.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/155290
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/155290
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!155290
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/315805
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://kashiwasato.com/project/14551
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Takeda Global Headquarters Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Burly Wood, Dark Khaki, Silver, Light Gray and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #155290
Credits
- Team
- Ko Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Saito, NIHON SEKKEI, INC., TAKENAKA CORPORATION, Nikken Sekkei Construction Management,Inc. and Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
- Image Credits
- All Photos：Photographer / Takumi Ota VIDEO CREDITS：Film Production / SIGHT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- Grand opening in Tokyo in 2018 and completion of the building's 16th floor communication space in 2023.
- Keywords
- office, Japan, wood, icon, lounge, iconic, Japanese
