日建連表彰BCS賞
「BCS賞」は、「優秀な建築物を作り出すためには、デザインだけでなく施工技術も重要であり、建築主、設計者、施工者の三者による理解と協力が必要である」という建築業協会初代理事長竹中藤右衛門の発意により昭和35年（1960年）に創設され、以後、わが国の良好な建築資産の創出を図り、文化の進展と地球環境保全を寄与することを目的に毎年、国内の優秀な建築作品の表彰を行っております。
なお、第52回（2011年）からは建築業協会の合併に伴い、新団体の日本建設業連合会が表彰活動を引き継いでいます。
なお、第52回（2011年）からは建築業協会の合併に伴い、新団体の日本建設業連合会が表彰活動を引き継いでいます。
PR Times
TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY まちびらき前年祭 in March～1年後にまちびらきを迎えるTAKANAWA GATEWAY CITYを先取りする心豊かな2日間～
◯東日本旅客鉄道株式会社（本社：東京都渋谷区、代表取締役社長：深澤祐二、以下「JR東日本」）は、2025年3月にまちびらきを迎える「TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY」について、開業1年前の機運醸成に向けたイベント「TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY まちびらき前年祭 in March」を2024年3月15日（金）～16日（土）に開催します。
◯本イベントは、「まちびらきに向けたトライアルの2日間」をテーマに、TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITYのまちびらきをイメージした様々なコンテンツを高輪ゲートウェイ駅に集約することにより、お客さまへ心豊かな未来の街体験を提供します。
◯1年後のまちびらきに向けて、高輪ゲートウェイ駅を起点に地域の活性化や魅力の発信に取り組んでいきます。また、高輪および品川エリアのにぎわいの創出を目指し、本イベントを今後も継続して実施していきます。
◯本イベントは、「まちびらきに向けたトライアルの2日間」をテーマに、TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITYのまちびらきをイメージした様々なコンテンツを高輪ゲートウェイ駅に集約することにより、お客さまへ心豊かな未来の街体験を提供します。
◯1年後のまちびらきに向けて、高輪ゲートウェイ駅を起点に地域の活性化や魅力の発信に取り組んでいきます。また、高輪および品川エリアのにぎわいの創出を目指し、本イベントを今後も継続して実施していきます。
The Japan Times
Tokyo to get major new office spaces this year, but is there demand?
Tokyo’s central areas are known as premium, popular office locations, with a host of major company headquarters concentrated there and upscale workplaces seen as a status symbol.
The Wall Street Journal
How Hybrid Work is Changing Offices of the Future
Workplaces that look like your living room; flexible, multiuse spaces; outdoor terraces. Today’s new hybrid work styles are reshaping the office buildings of tomorrow.
Leading architects and real-estate developers are pioneering concepts aimed at workers who are splitting their time between home and office, and they predict these innovations will become mainstream in the years to come.
Leading architects and real-estate developers are pioneering concepts aimed at workers who are splitting their time between home and office, and they predict these innovations will become mainstream in the years to come.
The Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo school moves into a high-rise in a first for Japan
In Tokyo, where space is at a premium, local authorities decided to house a publicly run elementary school in a tower block that rises 45 stories above ground and boasts a luxury hotel and offices as well as brand name shops.
San Francisco Chronicle
What will bring people back to downtown S.F.? This developer is betting on redwood trees
An audacious bet on post-pandemic downtown San Francisco could be coming as a proposed, full-block development at Main and Market streets that will include a nearly 1,000-foot tower with 808 apartments and 1.5 million square feet of office space with sliding glass windows that create “air porches.”
The Wall Street Journal
New Tokyo Railway Station to Kick Off $5 Billion Development
Takanawa Gateway, opening in March, is targeting overseas business
Press Release
Master Plan announced for Global Gateway Shinagawa in Tokyo
Pickard Chilton announced that it has completed, in collaboration with Kengo Kuma & Associates, the master plan for Global Gateway Shinagawa, a transformative redevelopment of the northern portion of Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and railyard.
Forbes
U.S. Architect Brings Know-How To Large-Scale Tokyo Project
Construction is underway on a landmark urban mixed-use project in the iconic Chuo Ward district of Tokyo, Japan.
Press Release
Year 2022: Yaesu 2-chome North District Redevelopment Project
American firm Pickard Chilton’s first project in Japan, modern design is incorporated into the site by reading its history.
Popular Mechanics
These 165,000-Pound Columns Will Heft a 38-Story Tower 85 Feet Off the Ground
Near the water in downtown Seattle, there's about to be a skyscaper unlike anything the city—and, well, the world—has seen. A 38-story tower will sit a full 85 feet off the ground, creating a open plaza beneath it, all thanks to the immense strength of the 20 steel and concrete columns that will support it.
Calgary Herald
Calgary-based ATCO unveils new corporate campus
The nearly 50-year-old energy and logistics company unveiled its new state-of-the-art campus in the southwest Calgary community of Lincoln Park Saturday, right next to its original facility.
Mitsui Fudosan
Agreement Signed for a Bulgari Hotel in Tokyo to Open in 2022
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts to open Japan’s first Bvlgari Hotel in the large-scale, mixed-use development planned for the Tokyo Station area. The Bvlgari Hotel Tokyo is scheduled to open at the end of 2022.
Daily Journal of Commerce
This 85-foot-tall ‘W' is giving Skanska's 2+U legs to stand on
A giant “W” has sprouted along First Avenue near Seneca Street in downtown Seattle.
The 85-foot-tall structure is made of large steel pipes that are the first of several columns that will support 2+U, an office complex being built by Skanska. 2+U will hover above a 24,000-square-foot outdoor urban village.
The 85-foot-tall structure is made of large steel pipes that are the first of several columns that will support 2+U, an office complex being built by Skanska. 2+U will hover above a 24,000-square-foot outdoor urban village.
Urban Land
Six Noteworthy Developments Changing the Face of Seattle
Cranes fill the sky and construction crews complicate navigation through Seattle’s streets as development projects downtown and in other close-in urban neighborhoods usher in a higher and denser city.
Chron
ExxonMobil campus is a city within a city
The ExxonMobil campus makes quite an impression from 350 feet in the air, as seen here in these Houston Chronicle photographs taken during a recent helicopter tour of the area.
Houston Business Journal
The architectural vision behind ExxonMobil's campus
Since 2008, these architects have been quietly working on one of the most exciting projects in the country and not talking. Until now. We got the scoop on the Exxon Mobil campus and two of the men behind its pioneering design.
Urban Land
ExxonMobil Goes Greener with New Headquarters
The new Exxon Mobil Corp. headquarters, rising on 385 acres (156 ha) north of downtown Houston, is one of the largest construction projects in the United States. The corporate campus will be composed of 20 low-rise buildings arranged around landscaped paths and quadrangles. It will consolidate in one place the energy company’s offices currently located in Houston, Virginia’s Fairfax County, and other locations to accommodate up to 10,000 employees who will begin occupying the campus early next year.
Ends Report
Forum for the Future set up Sustainable Shipping Initiative
Forum for the Future has teamed up with WWF International and two major shipping companies to establish a Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI).
As well as BP Shipping and Maersk Line, other founding members include Lloyd’s Register and Dutch state-owned bank ABN Amro.
The initiative aims to develop a sustainable action plan responding to the challenges faced by the industry over the next 30 years. Climate change, carbon taxes, changing cargoes and new weather patterns are cited as examples of the issues it will cover.
As well as BP Shipping and Maersk Line, other founding members include Lloyd’s Register and Dutch state-owned bank ABN Amro.
The initiative aims to develop a sustainable action plan responding to the challenges faced by the industry over the next 30 years. Climate change, carbon taxes, changing cargoes and new weather patterns are cited as examples of the issues it will cover.
