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2023.10.05 / INFORMATION

Wood Design Award 2023 Lifestyle Design Category Winner|Ginza Takagi Building

The Ginza Takagi Building (completed May 2023) has been honored in the Lifestyle Design category of the Wood Design Awards 2023, which recognizes outstanding architecture, spaces, products, activities, and systems utilizing wood.

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〈 About the Wood Design Award 〉
“Wood Design” is defined as activities aiming to solve social issues through the use of wood. As initiatives for SDGs and carbon neutrality become essential, the utilization of forests and wood is gaining prominence, designing new-era value by leveraging wood. The Wood Design Awards is a recognition system that seeks, evaluates, and honors outstanding architecture, spaces, products, activities, systems, research, etc., aiming to reconstruct the merits and value of wood through the power of design.

Organizer:About the Japan Wood Design Association
Name:Japan Wood Design Association
      English Name: Japan Wood Design Association (Abbreviation: JWDA)
Established:November 18, 2021
Location:Shimbashi OWK Building 6F, 3-5-2 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Chairman:Kengo Kuma
Number of Members:152 (Companies, Organizations, Municipalities, etc., as of August 2023)

NameGinza Takagi Building
Location7-3-6 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Access5-minute walk from Tokyo Metro“Ginza Station”
5-minute walk from JR/Tokyo Metro/Toei Subway “Shinbashi Station”
6-minute walk from JR/Tokyo Metro “Yurakucho Station”
Site Area154.01m² (46.59 tsubo)
Building Area119.57㎡(36.17tsubo)
Total Floor Area1,341.83㎡(405.90tsubo)
Number of Floors1 basement floor, 12 above-ground floors, R floor
StructureStructure: Basement: Reinforced concrete (partially steel-reinforced concrete) Above ground: Partially wood-framed steel construction
Construction companyTsuboi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Design companyTetsuo Yamaji Architects