Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Igishushanyo cy'Imbere y'Inyubako Competition Category.
IfezaImbere y'Inyubako· 2024
Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro
by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
Client: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza Winner in Imbere y'Inyubako Category
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About Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro
Kashiwa Sato yatanze iyobozi ry'ubuhanzi mu gishushanyo cy'imbere cy'icyicaro gikuru cy'isi yose cya Takeda Pharmaceutical. Yaremye urujya n'uruza kuva ku muryango no mu kabarugana kugeza mu kibanza cy'akazi, avuga inkuru y'ubuzima bw'umuntu akoresheje ibimenyetso bigezweho bya kanji umunani ku buzima, amazi, urumuri, ubutaka, igiti, abantu, ihuza, n'ejo hazaza, byerekana imiterere ya Takeda, abyerekana mu gishushanyo cy'umwanya. Yasobanuriye ishusho ry'ikirango cya sosiyete, aremye ahantu abafite inyungu bashobora gusangiramo iyerekwa ry'ejo hazaza.
The Recognition
About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza
Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Takeda Global Headquarters Ibiro ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.
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
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