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

Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Espacios Interiores y Exposiciones Competition Category.

PlataInterior· 2024

Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina

by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina

Kashiwa Sato ofreció dirección creativa para el diseño interior de las nuevas oficinas centrales globales de Takeda Pharmaceutical. Creó un flujo desde la entrada y recepción hasta el área de trabajo, narrando una historia de la vida humana con iconos modernos refinados de ocho kanji de vida, agua, luz, tierra, árbol, personas, conexiones y futuro, que representan la esencia de Takeda, reflejándola en el diseño espacial. Transmitió la imagen de marca de la compañía, creando un lugar donde las partes interesadas pueden compartir la visión del futuro.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Takeda Global Headquarters Oficina es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

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