Works#Award Winning

Nurtured by the rich natural environment of the mountainous region of Aichi Prefecture, the Shitara Town Okumikawa Local History Museum inherits the message of its predecessor, "to convey the life and spirit of our hometown." Located next to the newly established Shitara Roadside Station, it has been renovated as a core facility for community development. displays space is filled with numerous valuable materials and regional treasures collected since the Taisho era. The lattice-based displays space, using modular lattice structures made from Shitara-produced cypress wood, is easily replaceable and can be used as a unique spatial infrastructure for the region for years to come. Visitors can explore the rich forest scenery, the diversity of living things, trace archaeology and history, and be enveloped in a rich collection of folklore, learning about the wisdom of life that is still passed down today. By creating and expressing relationships of action and consciousness transformation through the interactions between creators and users, the museum aims to raise awareness of sustainable lifestyles. [Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests] 1) Facility development through increased use of Shitara Town-produced timber, positioned within the town's comprehensive plan and forest development plan. 2) Exhibiting tens of thousands of inherited displays and a well-equipped displays environment in response to the aging of the old local history museum. 3) Located at the southern gateway, providing guidance to the northern area and local resources, and revitalizing it as a field museum. 4) Reusing the handmade displays from the old local history museum and visualizing the inherited spirit of "Yui" (mutual support). 5) Creating a video archive of local resources, including the nationally designated important intangible folk cultural property "Tamamine Dengaku". [Solution] In line with Shitara Town's guidelines, displays rooms of the Okumikawa Local History Museum are constructed using cypress wood sourced locally from Shitara Town and processed into lattice structures. The folk materials on displays are a collection of handmade folk tools made from wood from the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods, preserved and passed down through generations. The space is concept design as a uniquely regional space that reflects and conveys the awareness and value of the rich forest that people have shared across 100 years. displays begins with a diorama recreating a lush forest scene, and explores the region's resources by tracing its natural history, including biodiversity and geology, as well as archaeology and history. It also recreates scenes of life in the past through folklore exhibits, expressing the spirit of "mutual support" and bringing the folk artifact collection to life. displays allows visitors to experience "the life and spirit of our hometown," conveying the wisdom and ingenuity of our ancestors who survived in the harsh mountainous region. [Customer Feedback] Your extensive experience and technology have helped us achieve a wide range of challenges, including the continuation of the old building's theme of "conveying the life and spirit of our hometown," a clear and easy-to-understand displays theme, the ability to update displays, and the use of materials from Shitara Town. <Our Project Members> [Sales & Project Management] Tetsuya Kurita, Teruko Takai [concept design Direction] Shunsuke Shimizu [Planning, design, layout] Koichi Ido, Yoichi Miyakoshi, Nobuyuki Endo [Production & construction] Koichiro Takahashi, Takeshi Suezaki

Aisin AW's history of developing Japan's first purely domestic automatic transmission and car navigation systems, as well as the passion and technology of our predecessors who rose to the top of the world, will be handed down to young employees and stakeholders. In the main space, we developed six stories using MANGA expressions favored by young people and symbolic scenes in order to convey the hardships of the company from imitating Europe and America to building its own technology through fumbling, in a way that brings us closer to the perspective of employees at the time. We created a displays that encourages people to empathize with each other in a way that is as easy as reading Manga, and that lets them feel the passion of their predecessors. In addition, we intentionally utilized a 40 year-old building that still retains the breath of life of the employees of that time. We retained parts of the building as stage equipment for displays, and created opportunities for dialogue among employees and customers by using AT pallets and grating materials actually used in the factory as fixtures and stages. In the old conference room area, small rooms are connected to create a large, long and narrow space, and the entire space is used as a timeline to introduce the transition of product technology. The AT pallet, which AW has used to deliver its products to the world, was used to create a stage that employees can feel both familiar with and proud of. This space is a huge AW chronology where you can intuitively feel at a glance the greatness of AW's technology, which continues to make the world's first and best products. < our company Project Members > [Creative Direction] LHC: Mitsuhide Yoshinaga [design, layout] LHC: Yuzo Kosaka, Yushi Tanaka, Akihiro Murayama [Shaping] Kenichi Kishikawa [Sales/Project Management] Takuya Fujioka, Yukari Tange [Production/construction] Hayao Ito

The "PARA HEROes Exhibition" is an exhibition planned to spread the message of diversity and inclusion to Japan and the world by having four young artists and creators express the appeal of the sport and athletes using "para table tennis" as their theme. As part of NOMURA Co.,Ltd. 's efforts to support activities that contribute to the promotion of sports, and also due to the connection made through the "COLORS" event held in October 2019 to commemorate one year until the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, we were able to sponsor the exhibition by providing planning and concept design. What did the artists feel when they encountered "para table tennis," what did they think when they tried to translate that into their works, and what did they want to convey through the works they created? What emerged from this was a way of expressing what they saw through their own sensibilities, without fixed ideas or preconceptions. We also hoped that visitors would break free from preconceptions through the artists' expressions, increase their empathy for parasports, and engage with the works with an open mind, so we concept design the space with the concept of "Uncoated." The elements that make up the space also make the most of their natural textures, and materials with textures related to each artwork are also incorporated. We paid close attention to the presentation so that the charm of each artwork would be best brought out. In line with NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Ltd. Group's guideline of "providing added value from an environmental perspective," this displays is concept design so that approximately 90% of the materials can be reused as is. The wood used was selected in accordance with the Fairwood Support Declaration. <Our Project Members> [Planning Support & concept design] Akane Yamaguchi, Ryo Onishi ~Related Links~ [Press Releases] ・"PARA HEROes Exhibition 2" sponsored by NOMURA Co.,Ltd. with concept design work is currently being held to great acclaim ・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd., Ltd. launches company-wide "Social Good" activities to create a positive impact on society and contribute to solving social issues [Announcements] ・"PARA HEROes Exhibition" sponsored with concept design work is currently being held

A new normal illumination that fuses the real and the remote, sending a message of gratitude and encouragement from Tokyo to medical professionals, essential workers, and all those who are moving toward the new normal.

This project involved the planning, design, layout, and construction of the tour route and environmental learning corner at the Kikuchi Environmental Factory Clean no Mori Goshi. "A tour route that guides you along a single line and tells a story" Guided along a single line, visitors can read explanations of the waste treatment equipment visible from the viewing windows, peek at videos of the equipment operating 24 hours a day, and learn about the waste treatment process while taking on quizzes. The boundaries between walls and floors were eliminated, and explanatory graphics, displays content, and sign graphics were integrated into a single line, concept design a board game-like information space. "An environmental learning corner that compares two worlds, prompts reflection and discovery" A space was created that divides the environment into two at eye level: a world that reduces waste (light blue) and a world that does not reduce waste (achromatic). Comparing the two worlds at various scales, from the Earth to local communities to daily life, displays was concept design to encourage visitors to think for themselves about how they should live and confront waste as individuals, and to provide them with insights.

"Illumination Island Odaiba" has been held annually as an event in which commercial facilities, accommodations, and transportation facilities in the waterfront sub-city center area simultaneously light up with illuminations. In 2020, a first-of-its-kind initiative was planned to extend the illuminations not only to individual facilities but also to public areas between them, and our proposal was selected after a round of proposals. We were responsible for a complete package, from concept design the illumination displays, construction, to patrolling security during the event period, and even to analyzing the impact on social media and the demographics of event attendees.

This project involved converting the former Kiyomizu Elementary School building, which has a history of approximately 90 years and remains in the Kiyomizu area of Kyoto, into a hotel. While inheriting its distinctive design, it was reborn as a hotel that also possesses modern comforts. Our company was in charge of architectural design supervision, interiors design, layout, and FF&E concept design and construction. Kiyomizu Elementary School is one of the schools that has been recognized for its unique architectural features in its location, exterior decoration, and interiors concept design. Based on the hotel's concept of "etching memories and connecting to the future," we paid the utmost respect to the historical Western architecture and its interior space, creating concept design that revives memories while preserving and passing them on. Furthermore, we fused the architecture and interior space as new functions to express both nostalgia and newness. [Client's Challenges/Requests] It was necessary to design a hotel that would function while making use of the existing historical elementary school building. It was also necessary to have repeated discussions about what kind of hotel would be accepted by the Kyoto community. [Solution] We worked with creators on every detail, from architecture, landscape, interior, FF&E, artwork, graphics, and uniforms, to create a completely new and unique space. While preserving the corridors and staircases where elementary school children once ran around, opening the doors to the classrooms where children studied allows you to step into a completely different, contemporary world. To maximize the value of the existing details that have etched the history of the architecture and interior space, we focused on materials that do not assert themselves but instead highlight the materials themselves. The reflection of the semi-glossy materials further enhances the existing architectural design. We aimed to create a spatial composition based on "reinterpretation" that can only be experienced here, by harmoniously balancing the total concept design coordination of artwork, graphics, uniforms, and interiors and FF&E concept design. <Our Project Members> [Sales/Project Management] Toru Moenuki [design, layout, design supervision] A.N.D.: Ryu Kosaka, Shohei Urata, Hiroki Yasuda / Hiroyuki Nishikawa [FF&E concept design] A.N.D.: Kaori Sano

"Tokyo Gift Palette" is a new shopping mall developed near the Yaesu North Exit of Tokyo Station, featuring 33 brands. The pillars and ceilings of this facility, a gateway to Tokyo, utilize recycled aluminum from the 700 series Shinkansen train cars that retired from the Tokaido Shinkansen in March 2020. Decorated with motifs such as "cherry blossom petals" and "noren" (traditional Japanese curtains), befitting a terminal station, the space has been transformed into a high-value, sustainable environment that connects people's feelings, leveraging the high quality and sophisticated feel unique to the 700 series Shinkansen. Our company participated in this project by Tokyo Station Development Co., Ltd., being involved from the development stage of the building materials and handling the production, construction production, and project management for interiors work in the environmental area. This is the first time that recycled aluminum, without any additives, has been used for decoration in a commercial space since the start of Shinkansen operations in 1964, and this project has received a development award from the Japan Aluminum Association.

"Technology to create a comfortable forest" The Panasonic Center Osaka Re-Life Salon is a space that embodies the wish for people to relax and become well-being, using Panasonic technology to create a comfortable forest. By combining various technologies such as sound, video, material processing, and airflow control with natural materials, it expresses the cycle of heaven and earth in the natural world and invites you to a comfortable feeling that resonates with the five senses. [Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests] Our role was to embody the message of the facility's theme, "Enriching Life Even More," using Panasonic technology. [Solution] We incorporated healing elements that enrich life and structured the entire space around concept design concept of a "forest." By incorporating Panasonic technology into a space composed of natural elements, it has become a space where you can actually experience comfort. By combining concept design and technology and embodying the space, we created a place that conveys the message of the entire facility. [Customer Feedback] Panasonic's spatial solutions technology has been physically incorporated into the concept design forest, creating a space where more customers can naturally experience it. It has become a salon area where many customers naturally gather, and we feel that it is functioning as the face of the entrance to Panasonic Center Osaka. We are grateful to NOMURA Co.,Ltd. 's sales, design, and construction teams for working together with us from the planning stage and providing a great deal of support in realizing this space. <Our Project Members> [Sales & Project Management] Yusuke Mori, Hidenobu Kumagai [Planning] Masahiko Ohi [design, layout] Asako Hashimoto, Hiroaki Mori [Production & construction] Masao Ogawa ~Related Links~ [Related Achievements] ・Panasonic Center Tokyo ROOM S ・Panasonic Museum Konosuke Matsushita Historical Museum ・Panasonic Center Osaka "Re Life Story: A House Connected to Nature Where You Can Play Innocently and Immerse Yourself in Nothingness" ・Wonder Life-BOX 2020 (Inside Panasonic Center Tokyo) ・Panasonic Center Osaka

NOMURA Co.,Ltd. opened a new office in March 2021 in the Daiba Garden City Building adjacent to the Head Office building (Odaiba, Tokyo) to accommodate the new normal era. NOMURA Co.,Ltd. The Group's goal is to activate communication and better creativity among employees while taking advantage of the Group's diverse work styles and values. NOMURA Co.,Ltd. The Group launched a project in 2019 to consolidate Group company locations with the aim of creating an environment in which employees can work together more closely and synergistically. Facing the changes in work styles and social issues arising from the Corona disaster, we sought to create a realistic office space for the New Normal era with the three keywords of "health," "experimentation," and "brand" to create the "way of the future work. We believed that the function of the office in the new normal era would change from a "workplace" to an "innovative space that triggers communication," where a diverse range of people from inside and outside the company can gather and actively exchange ideas and opinions in a way that only the real world can offer. To this end, the communication space "RESET SPACE_2" was designed based on the concept of a "Unique Park," a park-like space that can be used by all employees to accommodate diverse and unique work styles. The space is made of 100% fair wood. CONFERIUM is a proposal for a new meeting room area, and is an attempt to "act displays in the way we work" by daring to actively showcase unique meetings. The know-how used in the displays space is applied to the office space, for example, by darkening the common corridor to make the conference room stand out as displays. The creative office area has adopted a group address system. The creative floor is designed to allow concept design work with an awareness of the "concept design feeling" of scale and materials, which is a major advantage when conducting concept design work. By clarifying the purpose of the space, we were able to create a sophisticated space at a low cost. This project was planned, designed, construction and managed by the NOMURA Co.,Ltd. group.

Kiuchi Construction in Shizuoka constructed a new office building as a 100 year anniversary project. In one corner of the gallery, we were asked to create a gallery to introduce displays's 100 year history for the purpose of recruiting and communication with clients. Showcasing the history of 100 years from the company's founding to the present and the trajectory of its challenges in construction technology, we aimed to deepen the understanding of Kiuchi's history and create a space that can be effectively used as a communication tool for Kiuchi's next 100 years. [Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests] ・ Kiuchi Corporation's characteristics were expressed well and the facility was requested to have a dignified appearance. ・ We were requested to present information that is easy for recruiters and clients to understand, and also to remind subcontractors of projects they were involved in in the past and create conversations with Kiuchi employees. ・ With respect to displays, we were requested to guarantee renewability. [Solution] Concrete was chosen as the core of the space expression to express the characteristics of the company, which has its own factory and has achieved development by actively engaging in the concrete business. The concrete that supported displays's growth is also used as fixtures, giving a sense of the weight of history and creating an impactful glimpse. The wall is a graphic sheet chronology that shows the history of the company, which has always responded to the needs of the times and grown while overcoming the waves of economic boom and bust from its founding. In the central showcase, we present diorama models of the milestones in our 100 year history. Instead of displaying the completed architecture, we created a model of the construction scene to make it easier to understand as an illustration. In addition, by elaborately representing the people involved in the construction work as models, we created a displays with a sense of presence that makes it possible to hear the sounds of the site, as well as the breathing and voices of the people of Kiuchi Construction and its partner companies. < our company Project Members > [Sales] Ken Kumagai [design, layout] Yoshihiro Kitamura [Production/construction] Kazuo Maeda

The Yamato Group History Museum, also known as the Kuroneko Yamato Museum, was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Yamato Group's founding. This history museum, which showcases the Yamato Group's 100-year history and future initiatives, is located within the Yamato Konan Building, a next-generation hub for the group. It brings together a variety of functions, including a history museum, a research institute exploring the future of logistics, a training center for human resource development, and a café supporting the social independence of people with disabilities, all centered around a delivery center. The museum features a unique spatial structure, characteristic of a logistics company, where visitors can trace 100 years of history and the changing times as they descend the spiral roadway around the building's perimeter, where transport trucks travel, creating another spiral displays space above and below it. The exhibition is structured into four eras, from the company's founding to the present day. It aims to be displays that blends space and experience, allowing visitors to relive 100 years of Yamato Group growth by experiencing the changes of the times through the streetscapes that served as the stage for history, the offices at the time, and the state of society and daily life, while also touching upon the struggles of service development "visually displays" and the thoughts of managers and employees that were embedded within it.

For humans, whose natural habitat is land, spending long periods at sea is stressful both physically and mentally. To balance this, the design actively incorporates land-based elements that are in opposition to marine elements. These elements include the verticality of plants growing vertically against the horizontality of the drifting sea surface, the straight lines of buildings and windows against the curves of waves and fish, and the weightiness of trees and rocks against the floating concept design of ships and bubbles. The exterior deconstructs and reconstructs the company name, creating a Japanese pattern reminiscent of lanterns and kumiki (latticework). <Our Project Members> [Sales/Project Management] Ryo Fujime, Keita Suda [concept design /Basic Planning] no.10: Keita Aono, Shohei Suzuki [schematic design / working drawings / interior administration] no.10: Shohei Suzuki

~More than just a place to wait for trains, a station as a community space where everyone can feel comfortable~ Based on the concept of creating a place that fosters community, workshops and surveys were conducted with local residents from the planning stage. User needs were made apparent and reflected in the design. To create opportunities to experience various cultures through books during the time spent in the station, a corner where books and picture books can be read has also been installed. In order to convey the charm of local resources through the use of the station, the locally produced "Obi cedar" was actively used in various parts of the space, and the design and production of a space in which users can experience the charm of Obi cedar through their own experience was planned and produced. [Client's challenges/requests] The Nichinan Station, which was a place only for getting on and off trains and lacked any sense of community before the renovation, was to be transformed into a place that fosters local community and allows people to feel the "charm of the region". [Solution] In order to convey the appeal of local resources through the use of the station building, we collaborated with a local design firm, Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd., and actively incorporated locally produced "Obi cedar" into various parts of the space. To create opportunities for users to experience the charm of Obi cedar, we used wood for the station building's facade and window frames, while harmonizing it with the forest spreading behind the station building. In addition, we implemented a signage plan that makes the station's presence recognizable from a distance, and produced a space that harmonizes and integrates with the surrounding environment and the station building, with wood as the main material. [Customer's Voice] People other than JR users have started to visit the station building, and it has been renovated into an attractive space where local people can gather. We would like to continue to use it as a place for the local community, such as by holding events using the station building in the future. <Our Project Members> [Sales] Reiko Ibe [Planning, Production, Workshop concept design, design supervision] Mari Matsumoto ~Related Links~ [News Releases] ・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd., Ltd. opens a renovated old house facility as the first in a public-private partnership project to revitalize Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture ・Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture and NOMURA Co.,Ltd. conclude a "Comprehensive Partnership Agreement on Regional Revitalization" ・Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture and NOMURA Co.,Ltd. sign the "Regional Revitalization Business Personnel Exchange Program" ・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. takes on the role of a creative partner in community co-creation for urban development [Media Coverage Information] ・2019.07.05 "Construction Communications Newspaper" ・2020.04.01 "Nichinan TV" ・2020.04.07 "Miyazaki Nichinichi Shimbun" [Related Achievements] ・Plus D Nichinan Branch ・Kiraku Obi Goya Residence ・DENKEN PJM Photography: Park concept design Co., Ltd.

The public relations and displays space was set up alongside the G20 summit, which brought 30,000 officials and press from around the world to Osaka. It featured a floating, cutting-edge technology displays area inspired by a futuristic miniature world floating on the sea, a live kitchen reminiscent of street food stalls, and a bright white cultural area expressing hope from reconstruction to the Olympics. The three different areas were seamlessly connected and merged to concept design a new style of presentation that allowed visitors to relax and enjoy present-day Japan. [Social Issues/Client Issues/Requests] The client requested that we express Japan's innovative technologies and ideas that realize a virtuous cycle of environmental conservation and growth, creating a new era that is rich for both people and the planet. [Solution] At the G20 Osaka Summit, we actively implemented waste reduction initiatives based on the concept of "3R" + "Renewable Sustainable Resources," and in the public relations displays, we realized cutting-edge technology and spatial concept design related to the marine plastic waste problem. The displays was structured to show Japan's technologies and initiatives for plastic resource recycling in stages: "Reduce," "Replace," "Reuse," "Recycle," "Collect," and "displays." With concerns that by 2050 the ocean will contain more plastic waste than fish, we created a floor design depicting a beautiful ocean to convey Japan's commitment to protecting this state of the sea. <Our Project Members> [Sales & Project Management] Yuji Hayamizu, Yasuo Ogawa, Shigeyuki Ishiyama [design, layout] Yutaka Hanaoka, Takayuki Kobayashi [Production & construction] Yu Kimura, Yoichi Miura, Yukari Takahashi, Shigeki Ueno, Yuka Tabata, Yuki Higashihara