Construction Awards 2017

BUILD / Construction Awards 7 , Best International Architecture Practice - Japan YDS Architects is an award-winning international office that strives for innovation in design. We profile the firm to learnmore and explore the secrets behind its success. the practice seeks to integrate East and West. To create new and stimulating designs, Yoshitaka is always thinking about architectures and cities. He likes travelling and visiting modern architectures and villages and cities is important design source for him. This year, he has visited Europe, US,Mexico, and he visits several works like San Cristobal by Louis Contact: Yoshitaka Uchino Contact Email: [email protected] Address: 6F,2-20-7 Misakicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Phone: +81-3-6272-5572 Barragan, Fortworth Modern Museum by Tadao Ando and many others. Ultimately, with more and more architectures and cities that has clear-cut visions and designs are demanded in the world, YDS Architects tries to get the commissions overseas as well as in Japan. Established in 2008 by Yoshitaka Uchino, YDS Architects offers several services of architecture design, urban planning, exhibition design, furniture design, and creation of concept. Their clients are individuals and companies including Mitusbishi Jisho,Mitsui- Fudosan which are giant real state companies in Japan. YDS Architects think that architects should be more visionary with philosophy. When creating architectures and cities, the practice starts with making basic concept based on the five principles, Nature,MA(Void),Spaces of Agora, Spaces of path, Symbiosis. Nothing is taken for granted for them as they pursue stimulating concept and design. The firm’s latest projects which reflects their concept most are House K and Misora Kindergarten. House K is a simple white box with the terrace and the garage. In House K, the intention is to create a void which responds to the city as well as to the interior spaces. Nature and the architecture stimulating with each other, spaces expand to infinity. By employing simple spatial forms as a methodology, CE170010