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Photo : Tomoyuki Kusunose
MEETING PLACE OF FOREST
TETSUO KOBORI ARCHITECTS + DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO ., LTD . + FUJITA CORPORATION
Tetsuo Kobori Architects , Daiwa House Industry Co ., Ltd ., and Fujita Corporation proudly announce that they have won the Best of Best in the Institutional Architecture category at Architecture MasterPrize ( AMP ) 2023 , one of the most prestigious international architecture awards in the world .
The design team aimed to create a place of open exchange and co-creation for 49,000 employees with this project , implemented at the request of Daiwa House Group , which engages in the provision of construction and real estate services . Although the official name of this facility is “ Daiwa House Group MIRAI KACHI KYOSO Center ‘ Kotokurie ’”, the place is better known as “ MORI no KAISHO ”, which means “ Meeting Place of Forest ” in Japanese .
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