Nakanoshima Festival Tower

Hotel

Recently in the hotel industry, it has become a standard scheme to separate ownership, management and operation and to distribute profits according to the risk ratio, and Japan is no exception. Regardless of whether the business owner is in the position of ownership, management or operation, or, in any phase of the business, professional consulting services - that always verify risks and returns from both management and architectural aspects - are essential. Recently, the grade of the new hotel is in the upward tendency. In general, the higher the hotel grade is, the more complicated the facility specification and complexity get, due to higher quality and quantity of services expected. As a result, the number of the players involved in the project increases such as architects, builders, designers and other consultants, while the business owners are forced to respond to more issues and challenges.

Urban Development/Complex

In recent years, project schemes of the "town management" and "complex development" are increasingly diversified. Projects differ greatly depending on various conditions, from the vision and ideas of the business owner (client), location, local issues, market conditions, positioning of urban planning concept as well as completion date and budget. Project term is typically longer than usual construction projects, often as long as ten or more years. Since the number of stakeholders involved is large, it is important to create a scheme that is solid in concept but can respond flexibly to potential changes. The success of a project depends on timely involvement of the most suitable players with the ability to get the job done properly.

Education/Culture/Art

In the aging society, the way we approach the school development projects is changing. Renovation of aging facilities while standardizing the quality is expected. Also, when necessary we may consider involving private sector in the projects, or studying possibilities of institutional reorganizations and mergers. For private schools, branding and attractive facilities are equally important to acquire new students. In terms of cultural and art facilities, the expected functions are being shifted to more experience-oriented ones such as integration with dining and shopping, or combination of real and virtual etc., to respond to diversifying needs.

Media

As the online world of webcasts is increasingly thriving and user preferences are subdividing and diversifying, traditional media outlets, such as newspapers, magazines and TV, are facing transition. They are exploring new monetizing ideas in an effort to bring the conventional media business models to the next phase. One example of this is construction and real estate (CRE) projects where media companies are making the most of the real estate assets they own in big cities.

Office

In today’s world, businesses in all industries need to have global perspective. Efforts towards carbon neutrality is one of the initiatives to which businesses are expected to commit. For office projects, it has become more important to demonstrate corporate value as a part of branding, create space for innovation, and ensure facilities suitable for web conferences to meet with prevailing demands. Also for tenant office projects, in addition to the improvement of profitability and branding to differentiate from other competitors, new requirements are emerging in accordance with the evolving working style such as home office. It is a pressing challenge for property owners to update the concept of tenant business, to deal with decreasing demand of office spaces.

Commercial

As consumer preferences increasingly diversify, commercial facilities are required more than ever to come up with innovative concepts to differentiate themselves from competitors. In this era of rapidly growing e-commerce, concept making for real stores is equally important. The conventional store design may be no longer optimal. That will mean that the review of the commercial space concept is always required. The professional services to propose the optimal facility based upon market research and site analysis in order to develop the best product, will become increasingly important going forward.