Nikon Corporation Global Headquarters/Innovation Center

This project aims to achieve sustainable growth by consolidating head office and R&D functions in a place closely associated with Nikon, strengthening advanced development functions, and creating synergies. The architectural plan was designed to integrate space and function, evoking Nikon's "products and services that integrate design and function."

The office tower is a layered, vast plan of approximately 150m x 60m that responds to changes in the number of employees and working styles, while eliminating the sense of distance and division between floors. In order to encourage interaction across departments, the plan sandwiches a long, narrow strip-shaped core between regular office spaces. Multipurpose spaces such as a refreshment area, kitchen, toilets, and staircases are concentrated in the strip-shaped core, creating a place for spontaneous interaction. The main staircases are arranged alternately on each floor, allowing people to move between the two strip-shaped cores across floors, connecting the entire office area. The office space is set to a depth of 16m, making it easy to use daylight and access the strip-shaped core, and the distributed strip-shaped cores encourage people to move in various directions, creating a city-like mobility.

The welfare building, which houses a dining area and other facilities, was planned as a two-story building to match the scale of the surrounding environment, as it is adjacent to low-rise residential units on the north side of the site. With low eaves and a long opening, the view from the dining room on the second floor frames the road and the trees on the site, creating a space with a grand panorama that allows one to feel the four seasons. Having meals and meetings while feeling nature creates a relaxed atmosphere that is different from the office space.

The new headquarters is planned with the potential for innovation in which every space can be treated as a workplace, allowing people to move freely and generate new ideas through active communication. We hope that the new headquarters will be a place where a diverse range of people, including Nikon fans, local residents, and business partners, not just employees, can learn about Nikon, discover, interact, and experience the company.