The Peninsula
Qatar’s daily newspaper

25 March 2019

Doha: The National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) has announced plans for its gift shops and food sites, which will open over the course of several weeks after the public opening on March 28.

Similar to the carefully chosen aesthetic of the museum itself, each outfit was created by an artist whose vision was inspired by the grand design of the desert rose.

Japanese-born, Sydney-based designer Koichi Takada won the competition to create the stunning indoor spaces. The firm designed both museum shops (a gift shop and a children’s gift shop), the… Read more

The Urban Developer

25 March 2019

Sydney-based developer Crown Group will expand its operational footprint launching its first Melbourne development, in a joint venture project with G3 Projects planned in Southbank.

The “arts-inspired” $140 million apartment development comprises two Koichi Takada-designed residential towers that will stand 14-and-16-storeys.

For the full feature, visit The Urban Developer… Read more

Domain

24 March 2019

Melissa Heagney

Media Release: Sturt Street, Southbank Melbourne

…Mr Sunito said the building designed by Koichi Takada Architects would stand as a work of art itself.

Architect Koichi Takada said the distinctive design, which included curved white towers encircled by sinuous white ribbons, were inspired by images in the arts.

“The ribbons will form a beautiful pattern that will gleam white, reflecting the light, creating an ever-changing canvas and a beacon to people in the surrounding area,” Mr Takada said.

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Dezeen

19 March 2019

by Jon Astbury

Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia.

The mixed-use scheme for developer Crown Group is in a historic area of Sydney’s central business district.

Local firm Koichi Takada Architects combined old and new styles with a robust, arched brick podium surrounding a 26-storey glass and steel tower.

The Arc tower development contains 135 apartments and 86 boutique hotel rooms, with eight shops at street level.

The building is split in two by the publicly accessible Skittle Lane, a pathway from the 1980s that… Read more

Australian Financial Review

13th March 2019

by Stephen Todd

When architect Koichi Takada received an invitation to participate in the international competition to design interiors for the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), in Doha, he didn’t quite believe it. That was nine years ago, and having just set up his Sydney studio, the only public spaces Takada had completed were a few small (albeit beautiful) fast-food franchises in suburbs such as Sutherland and Maroubra in NSW – hardly hotspots on the international design radar.

It was an incredible opportunity, he quickly learnt: the museum itself was being designed by… Read more

Habitus Living

#43 2019

by Holly Cunneen

Koichi Takada Architects is known for luxury high-rise apartments, rich materiality and expensive finishes. But we find there is much, much more substance to this story than just good looks.

We are living in a day and age where food looks better than it tastes; people and places look better on Instagram than they do in real life; tourism is largely motived by the need to be seen rather than desire to do or experience; and technology is outshining its own creators. Sadly – scarily – this extends to architecture, too. The capability… Read more

YellowTrace

13 Mar 2019

Arc is featured as part of YellowTrace’s collaborative series with Brickworks Building Products on Australian Architecture that LOVE’S brick!

Aaaaaand… we’re back with our content partnership with our pals from Brickworks Building Products… In this series, we’re focusing on High-rise Brick & Masonry Architecture. Boom! Just in case you hadn’t noticed (but I seriously doubt it), contemporary mid and high rise towers are usually built using materials like concrete, steel, glass and large format claddings.

Alas, I’m sure you’ll agree bricks are amongst the elite group of materials that are hard to beat when it… Read more

Domain

12 March 2019

by Sue Williams

They’ve likened it to a doughnut, an armchair and a rollercoaster and said it was a building so ambitious, dramatic and flamboyant, it’d never actually happen.

Yet the controversial apartment block Infinity in Sydney’s Green Square is now just weeks from completion, with its curves, loops and hole right through the middle creating an enormous stir and a flood of both praise and criticism.

No construction since the Opera House in 1958 has excited as much enthusiasm and ridicule, but architect Koichi Takada doesn’t mind one bit. “It’s a privilege to be talked… Read more

BauNetz

14 Feb 2019

Es ist ein auffallendes Gebäude. Mit schon postmoderner Leichtigkeit haben Koichi Takada Architects diesem Hochhaus an der zentralen Skittle Lane in Sydney einen deutlichen Bruch eingearbeitet. Wie sie dem Bau vor die unteren acht Stockwerke eine Art Sockel aus komplex vermauertem Backstein vorblendeten und es dann gläsern-glatt in die Höhe schießen lassen, wirkt wie eine Collage aus römischer Antike und International Design. Dabei haben die Architekten und die Bauherrin Crown International Holdings Group dem Wohn- und Geschäftshaus einen schnörkellosen Namen gegeben, der das alles verbindende Motiv dieses ambivalenten Projekts benennt: Der Bogen, the Arc.

For the full article, please visit… Read more