Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Qullqi Premiu in Ukupi Kamay Competition Category.

QullqiUkupi· 2024

Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi

by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto

Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

A' Design Award Qullqi Premiu Winner in Ukupi Category

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The Design

About Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi

Kashiwa Sato, Takeda Pharmaceutical nisqap musuq tukuy pachapi uma wasip ukhu ruwayninmanta kamay yachayta qurqan. Haykuna punkumanta chaskiy wasimanta llank'ana situkama puriyta ruwarqan, runap kawsayninmanta willakuyta pusaq kanji kunan kaq willañiñiqkunawan: kawsay, yaku, k'anchay, allpa, sach'a, runakuna, tinkunakuy, hamuq pacha nisqakunawan, chaykunam Takedap sonqonta rikuchin, kay wasi ruway yuyaypi. Empresap sutinta qawarichispa, huk sitiota paqarichirqan maypichus llapa ruwaqkunaqa hamuq pachap qhawariyninta rakinakunkuman.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Qullqi Premiu

Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi A' Design Award Qullqi Premiu mishak kan, ancha jatun yupaychay, kayta hanak, sumak shinallatak mancharina diseñukunaman kun. Qullqi mishak kashkakunaka ancha achikyaska shinallatak ancha mushuk ruraykunami, paykunata rurakkunapak yachayta, yuyayta shinallatak ushayta rikuchinku. Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi ruray yachak, ñawpak shinallatak mushuk yuyayta charik sumak rurashka kanata munanku. Kay Qullqi Premiu japishka diseñuka ancha riksishka shinallatak yupaychashka yuyay kan, arti, siensia, diseñu shinallatak tekinolojía ñawpak ñankunata kichuk. Takeda Global Headquarters Llank'ana Wasi achka runakunapak munashka rurashka kan, munayta kallarichin, alli yuyaykunata kun shinallatak mancharichin.

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