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This is the Machida branch of PAPABUBBLE, an art candy shop originating in Barcelona, Spain. Taking advantage of its distinctive, long, narrow location next to an escalator within a commercial facility, we aimed to create a symbolic concept design that would serve as a hub for the PAPABUBBLE brand in the Machida area. The original location had low visibility from the commercial facility's entrance, and the changing perspectives from the escalator and the multiple access routes meant there was no single dominant viewpoint, making it difficult to attract customers. Therefore, we planned to leverage the location's ability to be viewed from all angles—up, down, left, and right—through the escalator and multiple access routes, transforming it into a strength for attracting customers. Specifically, we boldly arranged approximately 7m x 90 aluminum rods, resembling PAPABUBBLE's iconic candy bars, within the space. By painting each side a different color, we created a visual effect where the color changes depending on the viewing angle. This visual effect draws customers into the store, creating a floor plan designed to enhance their shopping experience. The gradual color changes are reminiscent of the magical performances that create PAPABUBBLE candies and the wide variety of their flavors.

The SC Business Fair is the largest event in the industry, organized by the Japan Shopping Center Association, bringing together all those involved in the shopping center industry. Our company also exhibited for three days from January 25th to 27th, 2023. In conjunction with the book "Let's Create a 'Happy Space' - The Dedicated People of NOMURA Co.,Ltd.."*, published in February 2023, we created a booth concept design based on white, with mirrored walls, books displayed on fixtures and shelves, and offered coffee, creating an atmosphere that would make visitors feel "happy." A total of approximately 670 people visited our booth over the three days. * "Let's Create a 'Happy Space' - The Dedicated People of NOMURA Co.,Ltd.": This book introduces cutting-edge space creation projects undertaken by our company, ranging from amusement facilities to hotels, museums, and offices, all aimed at evoking "happiness" in people.

This is the Saitama Shintoshin branch of PAPABUBBLE, an art candy shop that started in an alley in Barcelona and has spread to over 30 countries worldwide. It is an experiential store where candy artisans and customers can enjoy candy together through candy-making performances that take place inside the store. At the Saitama Shintoshin store, in order to allow customers to enjoy candy making with a greater sense of realism, we aimed for a seamless store that removes as much of the boundary between the kitchen space where the performance takes place and the customers as possible. The interior concept design is based on the concept of making customers feel as if they are in the kitchen, and the main material is stainless steel, the same material as the kitchen. Kitchen equipment and materials are scattered throughout the store. Furthermore, in the store's stock space, factory-grade vinyl curtains are used to deliberately show the candy ingredients, maximizing the sense of realism as art candy is created right before your eyes. As a next-generation candy shop that is conscious of experiential consumption and SDGs, we are also launching projects that allow customers to participate in the manufacturing process and a new service that transforms candy scraps that were previously discarded into hard-to-find premium products.

Following the 15th-anniversary renovation in 2013, where I was in charge of design and design supervision, I participated in the 20th-anniversary renovation from the planning stage. This milestone project marked the completion of the entire renovation after several previous renovations, and it reopened in 2019. The renovation included a complete overhaul of the welcome space on the first floor and the restaurant floor on the fifth floor, as well as updating the interior signage and installing new digital signage. Based on the concept of "Romanticship Umihotaru" from the 15th anniversary, the renovation differed from the fourth floor, which had large openings facing the sea, in that we created the image of the space using only inward-facing openings and special decorations.

This is a renovation project for Amada's Global Innovation Center, a company that boasts a world-leading market share in metal processing technology and the sales and development of processing equipment. The brand appeal area, technology displays, communication space, actual machine displays area, and sales negotiation space were planned around the theme of "the value that Amada brings to the world." This facility allows visitors to experience firsthand the "passion for building strong relationships with customers and contributing to society through manufacturing" that has been passed down since the company's founding, as well as the high level of their technological capabilities, and to feel the possibilities of a future walking together with Amada.

This project involved the renovation of "Saijoen Matcha Cafe," operated by Aiya Co., Ltd., which opened inside Aeon Mall Toyokawa in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the first newly opened mall in the Higashi-Mikawa region. Our company was responsible for design, layout, construction.

Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, and NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. have opened "TOYAMA TOWN TREKKING SITE," a new lifestyle hub themed around "transforming a closed gymnasium into a gymnasium that connects to the outside." This project was selected as part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' FY2016 "Public Facility Open Renovation Project," which aims to revitalize public facilities owned by local governments with private sector vitality, such as creators, and turn them into new business hubs. The goal is to "revitalize" the dead space of the Toyama City General Gymnasium through renovation, creating a multi-generational exchange hub where residents can engage in town trekking (walking around town) and other activities. "TTS" is a complex facility that includes a cafe, sports shop, and studio. The facility will be equipped with facilities (hardware) to support town trekking, and will be operated as part of a new public service to support the health of Toyama citizens by regularly holding events (software) focused on "food education," "physical education," and health education. Leveraging its location adjacent to Kansui Park, which attracts 1.4 million visitors annually, this project aims to be a pioneering initiative in Japan. It will be used not only by users of the Toyama City General Gymnasium but also as a base for exploring the area, allowing citizens to experience "extended healthy life expectancy" and "improved quality of life (QOL)," while the local government strives to build a "positive cycle model of residents' healthy behavior and the local economy." "TTS" provides "time and space that nurtures people, not just time or space alone, which is necessary for the health of people and the city," and slowly creates a "space" where you can share something that belongs to no one else with others.

This is a project to relocate Head Office of the Wealth Management Group. Based on the theme of "bringing the comfort of a hotel to the office," Wealth Management, being involved in the hotel business, has created a space where employees can leverage their daily work environment for business purposes. In line with the client's corporate philosophy of providing the charm and culture of Japan as "experiential value" and delivering inspiration and stable prosperity to all customers, the new office offers not only a place to concentrate but also a place to relax like in a hotel. High-quality coffee and tea are provided in the workspace, and the design is being tested to see how these "experiential values" can be leveraged for business, ultimately contributing to the prosperity of the client's business.

Tokyu Land Corporation's Sapporo branch, which continuously provides comfortable housing and new lifestyles centered on the brand "BRANZ", is based on the brand message "Environmentally advanced, from housing." We create well-being lifestyles that are friendly to both people and people, and create green homes for a sustainable future. This time, it is a renewal project aiming to create an office suitable for creating such an environmentally advanced condominium. We reviewed the value and functions required of the office, and designed it based on the concept of "Open Living" to create an environment that promotes well-being not only for customers who visit our office, but also for our employees who spend their daily lives.

This is the second store in Japan of an Italian delicatessen and restaurant from London, England. Muromachi, which focuses on pasta dishes, has an open theater kitchen in front, and the layout is such that you can welcome customers and enjoy the live feeling of cooking. With the CI color of pistachio green as an accent, and a slightly subdued color tone that matches the townscape of Muromachi, this restaurant has a different charm than the first restaurant.

This is a renovation project for guest rooms, a bar, and a façade of a ryokan located in the western part of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture. It has been reopened as "Atara Night Nishiizu", which is derived from the Manyoshu poem "A wonderful night that is regrettable to end". In terms of guest rooms, we have five suites and one concept room for groups and families. On the first floor, we were in charge of the renovation of the bar, the design of the façade, and the live kitchen.

This project involved the renovation of "River City 21 Shinkawa," a tower residence with 505 units completed in 1995. Located on the Sumida River, facing the Chuo Ohashi Bridge, this property boasts a riverside location with abundant nature and expansive views. The Chuo Ohashi Bridge, which spans the foot of the condominium, is illuminated at night and is known as a landmark in the Tsukuda area. A promenade has been built along the Sumida River, making it a place of relaxation for local residents who enjoy walking and jogging. The residential units offer a wide range of options, from 1R and 1K single-person plans to 2LDK, with a variety of unique layouts, including Japanese-style rooms with Ryukyu tatami mats and plans with spacious storage rooms. Following a change of ownership, our mission was to add value to this pioneering waterfront tower condominium, a property with high potential where nature and the city coexist, to suit the modern era, and we undertook the design and construction.

The new "Sound" corner, which opened on the 5th floor of the Science Museum's Forest area, is displays room where visitors can not only hear sound but also "observe it with a scientific eye." Through the various "waveforms" created by four interactive devices—"Jumbo Piano," "Laser Dance," "Aqua Wave," and "Chladni Pattern (relocated)"—visitors can learn about the three main elements of sound (amplitude, frequency, and timbre) while having fun. In particular, the "Jumbo Piano" is an interactive device that converts the performance of a giant piano into waveforms in real time and projects them onto a screen, proving popular with a wide range of ages, not just children. Following the basic displays plan provided by the client, our company considered and produced the devices, content, and graphics to realize that vision.

To provide guests with the hotel's concept of "experiencing Hokkaido," we planned the ultimate locally sourced hotel with sustainability in mind, while cherishing the culture and way of thinking that has been valued in this region. In the exterior, interiors, and structure, we not only used Hokkaido-produced wood, stone, and soil as building materials, but also aimed to use materials to the fullest extent by making furniture from leftover building materials. Furthermore, some of the furniture in the hotel lounge was made in Asahikawa, a town famous for its furniture, using Hokkaido-produced wood, and the regularly held market events are held in cooperation with local producers, creating connections between the hotel and the community in various ways, both in terms of soft and hard aspects. In the restaurant, we not only use Hokkaido-produced ingredients (agricultural products, seafood, dairy products, etc.), but also ingredients from producers whose faces we can see, and in the guest rooms, we have installed wooden speakers and record players in honor of Sapporo, the city of jazz, and have set up art with beautiful photographs of various parts of Hokkaido by five photographers, we have incorporated elements that allow guests to deeply experience Hokkaido through all five senses. Whether your destination is Sapporo or you're using it as a starting point, this hotel offers a unique and unforgettable experience in Sapporo, the gateway to Hokkaido.

The HU Group's mission is "to create new value in healthcare." The "HU Bioness Complex" is the core facility of its healthcare business, symbolizing this mission. This is a place where the future of all life is created through the fusion of "Bio," the accumulation of life data, and "Business," the creativity that brings innovation to the industry. To realize the facility's concept of "connecting, showcasing, and nurturing," our company was comprehensively responsible for "communication concept design," encompassing everything from concept design the working environment for employees, planning and producing spaces and content that introduce the value offered by the facility to guests, to branding including facility naming, logo, and signage, as well as promotion and operation such as novelty items, leaflets, and opening events.