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Office · renovation · Minato, Tokyo · 2024
Office · whole-building renewal · Tsukiji, Tokyo · 2021–2022
SeaTech HQ, Tsukiji
An old building’s second opening day.
A street-corner building in Tsukiji, Tokyo. Facade renewal and interior renovation gave an IT company a headquarters that reads clearly from the street.
Background
The company acquired an ageing corner building for its headquarters. The facade was tired and anonymous; inside, reception, meetings and everyday work all needed a home.
Thinking
- Problem
A whole-building renewal on a modest budget: how does an old frame carry a new company’s presence?
- Judgement
The facade is the brand — a corner site is the best billboard the company will ever own. Inside, a Japanese vocabulary sets the ritual of arrival.
- Design
A dark stone base, timber louvres and a curved glass corner form the new skin; at night the whole building glows like a lantern. Reception is a sequence of kumiko screens, stone counters and concealed light. Renders and completion photographs are placed side by side — fidelity is the test.
The space
Render ↔ As built
The same reception lounge: design-stage render on the left, completion photograph on the right. Carpet, sofas, kumiko screen, wall lights — the finished room matches the render almost detail for detail.
Render
As built
Process
Process material — sketches, plans, material boards and site photographs — is being compiled and will follow.
The render and the photograph match almost exactly. In the end, a design is proved by the built space.
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