Silver Interior · 2024
Takeda Global Headquarters Office
by Kashiwa Sato, Nihon Sekkei and Hiroyuki Enomoto
- Silver A' Design Award 2024 in Interior
- CLIENT: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 30,540
- Verification code 870EF561B4 · Verify this award
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About Takeda Global Headquarters Office
It offered creative direction for Takeda Pharmaceutical's new global headquarters’ interior design. The designer 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. It conveyed the company's brand image, creating a place where stakeholders can share the vision of the future.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Takeda Global Headquarters Office is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Takeda Global Headquarters Office is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Takeda Global Headquarters Office is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Press Kit
- 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.
- Image Credits
- All Photos：Photographer / Takumi Ota
VIDEO CREDITS：Film Production / SIGHT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
