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Opened in 1979, the Toyama City Science Museum explores the diverse natural environment of Toyama from a scientific perspective. In March 2026, the first-floor geology displays room, "Toyama: A Journey Through Time," and the lobby displays were renovated and reopened. This renovation was the first medium-scale renovation in approximately 20 years since the full-scale renovation that our company was in charge of in 2007. The main geology displays room introduces the formation of Toyama's land and the history of life through numerous rock and fossil specimens. While retaining the appeal of the existing displays, new sections were added, including "Toyama's Land Masterpieces," "Toyama Field Map," "3.5 Billion Years of Life History," and the complete skeleton of the Ankylosaurus dinosaur, "Gastonia burgei." displays displays intuitively convey the charm of Toyama's land and nature, connect life, the land, and nature, and deepen displays through video and digital technology.

Located on the first floor of the "YKK AP30 Building," constructed to commemorate YKK AP's 30th anniversary, this Philosophy Hall offers a glimpse into YKK AP's philosophy and journey. Incorporating elements that evoke YKK AP's identity, such as aluminum, glass, curtains, and light, the spatial design visualizes the company's corporate culture of "sitting in a circle, conversing, and offering hospitality." displays utilize symbolic displays methods reminiscent of aluminum extrusion technology, contrasts of light and shadow, and immersive video effects to convey the philosophy, commitment to products, and passion through everything visitors touch and see. Rather than one-way information transmission, the artistic displays methods embody the philosophy of "Architectural Products" that combine technology and concept design, appealing to emotions and serving as a medium for employees to speak in their own words, deepening understanding and relationships with business partners. The aim was to create a space where all visitors can connect with YKK AP's philosophy, empathize with its thoughts and values, and build trusting relationships as partners.

Fukui Prefecture and Fukui City have launched the "Fukui Station Area Dinosaur displays Project" to promote "Fukui, the Dinosaur Kingdom" to visitors and create a lively atmosphere using dinosaurs, in preparation for the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line between Fukui and Tsuruga in the spring of 2024. Fukui City is in charge of the east exit area of Fukui Station, and has installed a monument of a parent and child Triceratops with the theme of parental love in the east exit plaza. The parent Triceratops is a life-sized dinosaur robot that expresses parental love by moving and making sounds at set times. Meanwhile, the shelter area of Fukui Station is designed to resemble the world of land. Visitors can interact with three baby dinosaurs, including a Spinosaurus, and the egg monument is a photo spot where visitors can go inside and take pictures. In addition, the adjacent pedestrian walkway is designed to resemble the world of the sky. A bench where a child dreaming of becoming a paleontologist sits, and a sign reading "Pterosaur Sanctuary" have been installed. On the outer wall of Echizen Railway Fukui Station, facing the road beyond, a 20-meter-long mural of a herd of pteranodons is painted. Furthermore, the area under the elevated tracks is designed to evoke the world of the sea, with an internally illuminated "Marine Lizard Sanctuary" sign based on the blue of the ocean and benches adorned with reliefs of marine dinosaurs such as plesiosaurs. In this way, each area has a different theme, and the points of interest change to encourage visitors to explore the area.

In conjunction with the opening of Fukui Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen, a dinosaur monument was installed on the rooftop plaza of the new tourist exchange center that will be built at the east exit of Fukui Station. The purpose is to give a strong impression of the ``Dinosaur Kingdom Fukui'', increase awareness of Fukui, and encourage visitors to the city. The dinosaur monument is located in a position that can be seen from the Shinkansen platform and train windows. The "Fukuititan" discovered by the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum expresses Fukui's good child-rearing environment and family love, and the sight of two animals huddled together looks like a heart. In addition, we placed dinosaurs whose fossils were found in Fukui and monuments of popular dinosaurs, and took pictures with them.We also used a device that made it look like dinosaurs would pop out in augmented reality (AR) when you held your smartphone up to them. We have developed it as a fun new attraction that will make you feel as if you have entered a world where there are people.

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 renovation project for the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Natural Science, commissioned by the Japan Foundation for Science and Technology Communications. Approximately 40 years after its opening in 1981, the museum renovated the second floor's "Beech Forest Environment and Organisms" and "Experience the Power of Wind," and the third floor's "Mysterious Moving Room," into "Symphony of Forest" and "Scale Adventure," respectively. We proceeded with the consideration and production of video spaces, content, video systems, and graphics to realize the image of displays basic plan presented by the client.

The Wakura Onsen Festival Hall was created as a new tourist hub to introduce four festivals that Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture is proud of: the Seihaku Festival, the Notojima Mukouda Fire Festival, the Ishizaki Hoto Festival, and the Okumakabuto Festival. This was prompted by the registration of the Seihaku Festival's float procession as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2016. The Wakura Onsen Tourist Hall was renovated and rebuilt to serve as a new tourist base. It showcases the charm of Nanao, centered on its festival culture, and offers a variety of attractions that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, from children to adults and foreigners, including displays of actual giant lanterns and simulated festival experiences. <Project Members> [Development] Akihide Inoue [Sales/Project Management] Tetsuya Kurita [Planning] Konomi Taki, Kyohei Kishida [Design] Tomoyo Tsukiyama, Tadashi Yuasa, Katsumi Tanda [Production/ construction] Yoshito Inoue, Shin Kameoka, Satoru Inoue

The Nomi Furusato Museum is a newly established comprehensive museum featuring a nature displays showcasing the unique natural characteristics of the region through life-size models of plants and animals, a humanities displays introducing cultural artifacts such as the Nomi Kofun Cluster historical site and the Hakusan faith of the early modern period, a folklore displays introducing modern and contemporary life, and a children's museum where preschoolers and toddlers can learn about the history and nature of Nomi through play equipment. Because the museum houses valuable cultural artifacts, including the prefecturally designated cultural property "Hakusan Mandala Painting on Silk," airtight cases suitable for displays displays displays displays area is 1251㎡. The building is a single-story structure with reinforced concrete and wood construction. Our scope of work included the construction displays and interiors, including joinery, sculpting, demonstration equipment and diorama creation, video systems, video software, graphics, signage, electrical equipment installation, and staging and lighting work. <Project Members> [Development] Akihide Inoue [Sales & Project Management] Tetsuya Kurita [Planning] Kyohei Kishida [Design] Sho Inanobe, Mina Miyagi

The Annual Layer Museum is the world's first museum dedicated to a single theme: "annual layers." Annual layers are layers of mud that have accumulated at the bottom of lakes over long periods of time. The annual layers of Lake Suigetsu, one of the scenic Mikata Five Lakes (Fukui Prefecture), record an enormous period of time—70,000 years—the longest in the world, and are deposited to a depth of 45 meters, recognized worldwide as the world standard for dating. One hundred thin slices of "shining soil = annual layers" are displays facing the lake, becoming a regional symbol that transcends the boundaries of a typical museum. Here, the landscape is also an displays. You can feel the changing passage of time, and as the sun sets, displays change their appearance along with the landscape. A harmonious worldview has been created where the boundaries between displays, architecture, and landscape are blurred. [Customer Feedback] "Annual layers" is a generally unfamiliar and difficult theme, but after repeated discussions and considerations to create displays that would satisfy visitors, we were able to create displays that is both academic and easy to understand, and has received high praise in visitor surveys and other feedback. <Our Project Members> [Sales & Project Management] Akihide Inoue [Planning] Kyohei Kishida [concept design] Sho Inanobe [Production & construction] Takeshi Suezaki, Nanae Hori, Riku Murata

The Noriyama Satoyama Satoyama Sea Museum is a facility where visitors can experience the rich nature, wisdom of daily life, history, and culture nurtured in Nanao City. The museum does not categorize the charms of satoyama and satoumi as nature, history, or folklore, which cannot be captured in a unified manner, but rather as a fusion of fields and a multifaceted approach. The museum has set up mechanisms for both adults and children to enjoy, such as a spatial experience surrounded by insect and shell specimens, displays that tells visitors how fixed net fishing works, the experience of lifting Noto cold yellowtail, and a pull-out quiz. In the two-screen theater, a family's life and growth in the village are shown through images of Nanao's beautiful four seasons, drawing the viewer into the world of satoyama and satoumi. displays At the end of the room, we threw in the charms and challenges of satoyama and satoumi, creating an opportunity to think about the reality and the future of satoyama and satoumi. The client requested that we build a museum that creates the future based on the value of the 1,300 years of Noto Rikkoku life (nature, history, culture) and incorporate the perspectives of field museums, tourism, citizen collaboration, and local products. The Satoyama Sea is a system where people can coexist and sustain themselves with the nature they have nurtured. We proposed "Satoyama-Umi displays" as a comprehensive study by integrating various fields and conveying the concept in a multidisciplinary manner. The presentation also fosters civic pride by including a tourism introduction by a curator who guides visitors to Noto from a researcher's point of view and a video featuring citizens. In addition, the traditional crafts and local products of Noto Nanao are sublimated and expressed as elements of the space concept design, rather than being displayed as products. ＜Our project members ＞ [Sales/Project Management] Akihide Inoue, Masahei Kishida [Planning] Masahei Kishida, Tadashi Yuasa [design, layout] Tadashi Yuasa, Reiko Kagawa [Signage/Graphics concept design] Satoko Hasegawa, Tadashi Yuasa [Production construction] Shin Kameoka, Yoshihito Inoue, Yoshisei Shimode

[Project Description] This project involved renovating the second-floor office area of a pre-cutting factory in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, into a reception area, library lounge, and showroom. The aim was to create a space that fulfills the role and function of an office while preserving the unique atmosphere of the factory. The theme is "Forests where people walk together" and "Wooden spaces where people can live richly," with the concept of understanding the growth of trees and supporting the coexistence of wood and people. [Client's Challenges/Requests] ● To create a creative space where people can gather and interact, with "wood" as the keyword. ● To create mechanisms that allow people to feel closer to wood by deepening their knowledge and understanding of wood and by actually touching it. ● To consider not only seeing and touching wood, but also holding workshops to promote wood education and interaction with craftsmen. ● The wooden parts of wooden houses, mainly the structure, tend to be hidden by floors, walls, and ceilings in daily life, making it difficult to take an interest in them. In such a situation, the aim was to create mechanisms that allow people to experience the wood material itself, processing technology, manufacturing staff, and product quality processed by Woody Parts with all five senses. [Solution] The reception area was designed so that employees and visitors could view the space with a sense of depth. This is symbolically expressed in the tables, lighting, and bookshelves that make up the library lounge. In the showroom, mesh material was used on the walls so that displays walls would not disrupt the atmosphere of the former factory space. Taking advantage of the spaciousness of the space, presentation spaces for B2B and B2C were prepared. In order to allow for clear presentations, the showroom was not designed to be explanatory, but rather a space that visually presents handiwork and technology, resembling an art gallery. Emphasis was also placed on the ease of updating information so that it would not become outdated over time. In the future, the aim of this office is to create a space where, in addition to the traditional "manufacturing" using wood, "experience creation" related to "living" will be born. [Customer Feedback] ●There has been an increase in conversations that are not about products (things), such as the scent and texture of wood. ●The number of visitors has increased, not from on-site staff of existing customers, housing companies, but from management, architects, and planners. <Our Project Members> [Sales & Project Management] Takuya Kitai, Yoshiki Yamada [design, layout] Hiroaki Koshizen [Production & construction] Kentaro Hirano Photography: Nakasa & Partners Co., Ltd.

[Project Overview] The museum, boasting a collection of masterpiece chairs and posters, places more emphasis than ever on concept design, aiming to become an experiential creative museum that "connects art and concept design." There are six displays rooms of varying sizes. Our company was responsible for the design and construction of the wall cases in the special displays room on the second floor. In addition to permanently displays approximately 50 chairs from the collection of about 240 chairs, we developed displays system for concept design displays room, which boasts a collection of approximately 13,000 posters. We also handled displays of works and materials by Shuzo Takiguchi and Simon Goldberg, which were donated when the museum was the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art. In the hall, we developed an experiential "interactive art" installation that creates light art through body movements. [Client's Challenge] The museum possesses a rich collection of 20th-century art and an unparalleled collection of concept design (chairs, posters). The goal is to create an experiential creative museum where visitors can freely explore this museum, deepen their knowledge of one genre, and not only grasp things in relation to various genres, but also develop a deep understanding and critical thinking skills. [Solution] We created distinctive displays spaces tailored to the theme of each displays room, including displays fixture planning, color scheme planning, lighting plan, and video/sound plan, resulting in memorable art and concept design experiences. Furthermore, we introduced "interactive art" in the hall, where visitors create light art through body movements, contributing as an element of an experiential, imaginative museum that connects art and concept design. <Our Project Members> [Development] Atsushi Ishikawa [Sales/Project Management] Atsushi Ishikawa [design, layout] Yasushi Kasuga [Production/ construction] Shunichiro Nagayama [Video] Akinori Goto

<Project Description> The Tulip Shikisai-kan has celebrated its 20th anniversary and has renovated its permanent displays. The "Wonder Garden" allows visitors to see the process of tulips from sprouting to blooming all year round, and the "Under Farm" explores the mysteries of tulips using the latest technology. Our company assisted with the design and construction of the renovations. ◆Wonder Garden Tulip Palace Approximately 500 cut tulips are displays on a wall made of curved glass 3.7m high. You can have a magical experience surrounded by tulips. Palette Garden A garden where 5,000 tulips bloom all year round! Tulips spread out in all directions as if in a kaleidoscope. Growth Story Enjoy the process of tulips growing along with the seasons. ◆Under Farm You can shrink down and see the growth of tulips from the perspective of a bulb. The process is clearly explained with images projected onto the ceiling. You can also learn about the history, breeding, and cultivation tips. <Our Project Members> [Development] Isao Fujimori, Atsushi Ishikawa [Sales & Project Management] Atsushi Ishikawa [Planning] Yuki Shimokuni [design, layout] Tomoki Fukano [Video Direction] Akinori Goto [Graphics] GyoGyoMaaMa Creation Office, Ayashi Mizutani, Yumi Nakajima [Production & Planning] Tsutomu Fukushima, Akio Hiraishi [Production & construction] Atsushi Okuda, Koichi Yamada, Chinami Tadokoro [Design Cooperation] KAZAANA design studio, Tomoaki Hori, Yasuaki Hatakeyama [Production Cooperation Partners] Horai Co., Ltd., Nippon Electronics Service, Plantscape, Kyoda Creation, TV Asahi Create 4D, Endo Lighting [Photography] Shin Photo Works, Shinji Miyamoto

[Project Overview] The "NGT48 Theater" is the dedicated theater for Niigata NGT48, the fifth idol group formed in Japan by the AKB Group, which opened on January 10, 2016. The project is managed by AKS Co., Ltd., and was brought to "LoveLa 2," a mixed-use commercial facility located in the central business district of Niigata City (operation, management Mitsui Fudosan Group), as a core attraction for drawing in customers. Unlike previous AKB Group groups, NGT48 is expected to be an idol unit that will take on the role of regional origination and revitalization in various ways, and this is reflected in the theater's concept, various mechanisms, and design. NOMURA Co.,Ltd. has been working with Shimizu Construction Co., Ltd. from the initial stages of planning, and has been responsible for the planning, design, and construction of the theater's concept design and stage equipment. [Our Representatives] Account Manager: Mitsuhiro Sato Account Director: Ken Kumagai Creative Director: Fumitomo Takahashi Designer: Kentaro Yamada Technical Director: Kenji Suzuki Product Director: Masaaki Kondo / Hisatsugu Takema

The National Tree Planting Festival is a central event of the national greening movement, held every spring with the attendance of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, and co-sponsored by the National Greening Promotion Organization and the host prefecture, in order to deepen the public's understanding of forests and greenery, which are the foundation of a rich national land. The basic plan was awarded in 2013. Subsequently, the implementation plan was completed in 2014, and the main event was held in 2015. We provided total support from planning to implementation, including venue preparation, ceremony direction, and operational support. ◎Our project members NOMURA Co.,Ltd., Ltd. [Sales] Hideo Inoue, Teruko Takai [Planning] Hideo Inoue, Teruko Takai [concept design /Architecture] Hideo Inoue, Yoshito Inoue, Teruko Takai [Signage/Graphics] Teruko Takai [construction] Toshihide Kanemitsu [Direction] Hideo Inoue [Operation] Hideo Inoue, Teruko Takai