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Hakuten Kyobashi Office Design by Junki Horita-Hakuten Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Junki Horita-Hakuten honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Hakuten Kyobashi Office Design by Junki Horita-Hakuten, designed for Hakuten. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Hakuten Kyobashi Office Design
Hakuten Kyobashi is an office interior design created for a communication design company. The space measures 2,400 square meters and serves 400 employees through a free address system. Free spaces form the core of the zoning, and every fixture is movable, with handles, stacking ability and casters. The wooden flooring of the cafe zone can be removed piece by piece. Graphic patterns on the floor act as a scale for changing exhibits. Part of the former tenant interior was kept and joined with the new work to limit demolition and preserve memory.
About Junki Horita-Hakuten
Based in Tokyo, this is an all-genre spatial creative team that handles a wide range of projects, from temporary to permanent, products to interiors. Not only spatial designers, but also professionals in a variety of fields such as digital, sound, graphics, and video are on staff. They are a company that creates amazing experiences and takes action to change the future. They believe that a momentary experience can change people and change the world, and they continue to create unique experiences.
Award Record
Junki Horita-Hakuten is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/162225
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162225
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162225
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356326
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.tecture.jp/teams/76/projects
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hakuten Kyobashi Office Design
- Function
- Office Design
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Black and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hakuten
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Junki Horita-Hakuten
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162225
Credits
- Team
- Junki Horita, Shuji Kawaguchi, Takahisa Aoyama, Shunta Fukuyama, Ema Fujiwara, Mako Tamura, Tomoya Nakao, Shoichiro Minami, Wataru Fukusaka, Daisuke Masaki, Yosuke Nakazato and Yukiyoshi Misawa and others
- Image Credits
- Image #1~5: Photographer Daisuke Shima,2024
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As a communication design company, at the core of the office zoning are various free spaces that stimulate the imagination of the scene in which they are used, rather than being imposed by the current era. Everything that is placed is movable, and events are held regularly to create a space that continues to change. In terms of the environment, the lean design solves the problems of Japanese office design.
- Inspiration
- It is true that today's urban offices are required to be more comfortable and perform better, which is why they are often dismantled from the standard specifications that were cleaned up by the restoration work associated with the contract of the former tenants. This time, we took over part of the former tenant's interior and took on the challenge of rethinking standard specifications that, while functional, tended to look old and shunned, and integrating them with the new space.
- Research
- In our survey of urban offices, we found that almost all tenants sign a contract for an office with all new space and then tear down all its finishes, demolishing and refinishing the interior twice. This is a bad business practice and a contractual problem in Japan. Furthermore, we found that although recently there has been an increase in designs that preserve the existing environment out of environmental considerations, offices are the only area that has not been improved at all.
- Challenge
- Free space is difficult to use if everything is free. We challenged ourselves to create comfortable limitations. We also decided what to keep from the old office while retaining some of the old tenant space. We challenged ourselves to remake both the space and the products, not only for environmental friendliness, but also to pass on memories and culture.
- Realization and Technology
- All fixtures are movable and have handles and stacking capabilities as well as casters. The wooden flooring in the cafe zone is removable piece by piece, combining the comfort of a comfortable environment with the advantages of a changeable temporary space. Graphic patterns are applied to the floor at regular intervals as a scale for changing exhibits.
- Operation and Interaction
- An office task force manages the place, and anyone can easily remake the space. During the day, dozens of people meet openly in the morning. In the afternoon, the space is used as an exhibition and cafe space for communication. At night, it is constantly changing as a bar time, where a different kind of communication occurs.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project starts in spring 2023, construction completed in spring 2024.
- Specifications
- 400 employees work in a 2,400 sq. m. space utilizing a free address system.
- Keywords
- office, spacedesign, workspace, movable furniture, reception
