Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Koichi Takada Architects. Thank you so much for all of you who supported and share this incredible journey with us.

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Habitus Living

8 November 2018

by Rebecca Gross

Koichi Takada Architects has designed Calibre, a new apartment complex, with a focus on craft and nature to create a more human relationship between residents and their environment.

The Arts and Crafts movement emerged in the nineteenth century as a reaction to industrialization, as theorists and designers placed value on craftsmanship and natural materials and looked to nature for inspiration. Calibre is a new multi-residential development designed by Koichi Takada Architects – and much like the Arts and Crafts movement, it responds to the mass-produced, standardized and impersonal architecture of many… Read more

Habitus Living

7 November 2018

According to Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect Koichi Takada “naturalizing architecture” is part of his role as an architect: “I feel the responsibility towards reversing the cycle of civilization and bringing nature back into architecture – we need to create breathing space.”

At ‘In Conversation’, an event run as part of the SCCI Architecture Hub in October, Koichi came together with internationally-renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to discuss their approaches to naturalizing architecture. Exploring a series of their own projects, as well as the… Read more

Domain

5 November 2018

Back in Surry Hills, Koichi Takada’s upcoming Calibre has also impressed Milligan. With an undulating glass and timber-screened façade, the eight-storey building will house 18 apartments.

“It’s a stunning building and a clear case of an architecturally led project with little to no compromise along the way,” he says.

“It holds the streetscape and it does what good architecture should: it makes you stop and admire.”

For the complete article, please visit Domain… Read more

Financial Review

22 October 2018

Skye Suites Sydney occupies nine floors of Arc, a striking new 25-storey highrise designed by the Tokyo-born Sydney architect Koichi Takada.

At street level, Arc presents as a handsome 19th-century warehouse, its red-brick columns holding up elegant arches. Twin towers above are topped with arched ribs that look from a distance like white armadillo shells.

A constantly shifting 12-metre light sculpture by the Melbourne-based studio Ramus Illumination floats above an airy arcade running through the development from Clarence to Kent streets and bisected by the cobblestoned Skittle Lane.

The Arc foyer is in… Read more

Domain

23 October 2018

Japanese design has long fascinated style-watchers around the world and Australia is no exception.

From pure simplicity to deep philosophies, the tenets of Japanese design are emulated widely across the architecture.

Sydney will soon welcome it’s very own slice of high-rise Japanese architecture with Mastery, a five-building development co-designed by celebrated architects Kengo Kumo and Koichi Takada.

Kumo is arguably Japan’s most prominent architect, while Sydney-based Takada has won a slew of awards for his innovative designs in Australia.

The pair collaborated to create the tallest of the five towers at Mastery – a 20-storey ‘stacked forest’ with… Read more

Designboom

18 October 2018

‘Infinity’ by Crown group, the so-called ‘landscape tower’ designed by Koichi Takada Architects, is nearing completion after five years in the making. the practice won the project in 2014 through the city of Sydney design excellence competition, during which the team has overcome a series of design and construction challenges to deliver a stand-out piece of architecture. as the scaffolding is slowly being removed, the structure is just beginning its unveiling, with an expected completion in early 2019.

A lot of people underestimate the shape of infinity,’ says Koichi Takada. ‘we’re not doing it because we think it looks cool, it was… Read more

Domain

12 October 2018

The Japanese architect Kengo Kuma is one of the most celebrated designers of his generation, renowned for his visionary fusion of traditional Japanese style with game-changing technological innovation.

Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect Koichi Takada has long admired the work of the man he refers to as “Kuma-san”.

“Kuma-san has a more human approach to design and architecture, which I connect to, as opposed to past masters who were more like gods; untouchable,” Takada says.

Now, for the first time, Kuma and Takada are working together, collaborating on a new mixed-use development coming to Waterloo.

“It is a… Read more

Friday 19 October 2018
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
SCCI 20 Goodhope Street Paddington

An informal and wide-ranging conversation between world-renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium) and leading Sydney-based new generation architect Koichi Takada.

Both architects aim to ‘naturalise’ architecture in the urban environment and are currently collaborating on a landmark high-rise residential tower – described as a ‘vertical urban forest’ ­– in the inner Sydney suburb of Waterloo.

They discuss this and other of their key projects, influences, inspirations and visions for the future of architecture at the intimate SCCI Hub in Paddington.

Kengo Kuma &… Read more

Architecture & Design

17 Sep 2018

The Koichi Takada-designed Arc is now partially complete. The building’s ‘Skye Suites’ has now opened its doors to the public.

Skye Suites Sydney is the city’s first offering of boutique serviced apartments in the CBD, according to developer Crown Group. The 25-storey multi-residential tower was designed to combine architectural excellence and luxurious amenities while also enhancing the inner-city lifestyle.

“This is an exciting project for Sydney as Arc by Crown Group will be the first collection of serviced apartments to redefine the west corridor of the city – tapping into the business and… Read more