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

Takeda Global Headquarters Tari by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

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Takeda Global Headquarters Tari

by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Takeda Global Headquarters Tari

I whakarato a Kashiwa Sato i te ārahi auahatanga mō te hoahoa o roto o te tari matua ā-ao hou a Takeda Pharmaceutical. I hanga ia i tētahi rere mai i te tomokanga me te wāhi whakatau manuhiri ki te wāhi mahi, e kōrero ana i tētahi pūrākau mō te oranga tangata mā ngā tohu ōnaianei parakore o ngā kanji e waru mō te ora, te wai, te mārama, te oneone, te rākau, ngā tāngata, ngā hononga, me te āpōpō, e whakaatu ana i te tino o Takeda, e whakaata ana i tērā ki roto i te hoahoa wāhi. I whakawhiti ia i te āhua waitohu o te kamupene, i hanga i tētahi wāhi e taea ai e ngā kaipānga te tohatoha i te tirohanga whakamua.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Takeda Global Headquarters Tari te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Takeda Global Headquarters Tari he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Takeda Global Headquarters Tari he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

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