TANAKA’s New Head Office, TANAKA Building Received The GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2025
TOKYO, Nov 7, 2025-(JCN Newswire) –TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP Co., Ltd. (Head workplace: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Group CEO: Koichiro Tanaka)reveals that its brand-new head workplace, the TANAKA Building, built in Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, and to which the head workplace functions were transferred on April 1, 2024, has actually been selected as a winner of the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2025, which is arranged by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP).
The Vision Behind the New Head Office, TANAKA Building
The starting place, Kitajima-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo (now Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku), functioned as the head workplace of TANAKA from 1885 to 2006, when the head workplace functions were relocated to Marunouchi. In April 2024, as a leading business in the rare-earth elements market, driving the leading edge of the times while maintaining its starting viewpoint and going for more advancement, TANAKA moved its head workplace operates back to its birth place, Kayabacho– a district going through exceptional advancement through the redevelopment of the surrounding location and the production of brand-new centers for intergenerational exchange.
The brand-new head workplace was created under the idea “Connecting with individuals, the city, and the future.” It embodies the vision of a location that combines varied individuals and worths to produce the future. The outside embraces a calm color pattern, and minimal area is efficiently made use of by including plant to supply a sensation of nature, going for consistency with the tranquil, traditionally cultivated streetscape of Kayabacho.
Inside the structure, a main staircase in the atrium promotes open and liberating interaction and motivates barrier-free interaction amongst staff members. To support Activity Based Working (ABW)– a work design that enables workers to flexibly select where and when they work according to their jobs and situations– the workplace design includes varied areas such as free-address seating, web-compatible cubicle seats appropriate for private work, and conference areas that can flexibly accommodate various group sizes.
The structure’s total style has actually been acknowledged for decreasing energy intake by 51% compared to traditional structures, accomplished through reducing ecological load throughout building and construction, embracing high-efficiency devices, and actively using natural energy. It fulfills the requirements for ZEB (Zero Energy Building) Ready.
Examination Comment from the GOOD DESIGN AWARD Judges:
The brand-new head workplace, which has actually gone back to its establishing website, embodies in its architecture the clear style of linking the “city,” “individuals,” and the “future.” On the very first flooring, there is a hall and a screen of a mikoshi (portable shrine) utilized in regional celebrations, broadening chances for interaction with the regional neighborhood. The big atrium, Crucible Space, which goes through the center of the workplace, functions as a symbolic location that generates light and wind while motivating encounters and partnership amongst individuals. Geared up with systems for seismic seclusion and ecological factor to consider, this architecture embodies the image of a business that develops on its history and continues into the next generation.
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Tomohiro Toi, Managing Corporate Officer,
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Yosuke Miura, KUME SEKKEI Co., Ltd.
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About the GOOD DESIGN AWARD:
Developed in 1957, GOOD DESIGN AWARD is Japan’s leading commendation system. Qualified for application are items, architecture, application and software application, jobs and efforts that make use of style and more. Through this system, lots of people can be found in contact with “excellent style” and value their worth. The acknowledgment rate of the award is 84%*, with its familiar sign, G-Mark.
* According to the most recent study by Japan Institute of Design Promotion in 2020.
https://www.g-mark.org/
About TANAKA
Considering that its structure in 1885, TANAKA has actually constructed a portfolio of items to support a varied variety of organization utilizes concentrated on rare-earth elements. TANAKA is a leader in Japan concerning the volume of rare-earth elements it deals with. Over several years, TANAKA has actually produced and offered rare-earth element items for market and supplied rare-earth elements in such types as precious jewelry and properties. As rare-earth elements professionals, all Group business in Japan and around the world work together on production, sales, and innovation advancement to provide a complete variety of services and products. With 5,591 workers, the group’s combined net sales for the ended December 2024 were 846.9 billion yen.
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https://www.tanaka.co.jp/english/
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