Five major multi-residential projects under construction

1 March 2016

With five of our major multi-residential projects now under construction, the next couple of years will see the reveal of some of our most exciting and sophisticated designs yet as they continue to take shape amongst the iconic skylines of Sydney and Melbourne.

By 2020, Koichi Takada Architects will have a total of 166,728 m2 complete, offering 1,928 beautifully designed apartments across some of Sydney and Melbourne’s most sought after residential addresses.

Skye by Crown Group
GFA: 37,553 m2
Storeys: 28
Apartments: 242

ARC by Crown Group… Read more

EAST VILLAGE

1 March 2016

Since its launch in 2014, East Village has already won four awards and was short-listed for several more. It is now in the running for the 2016 Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall Innovation & Excellence Awards. It has made it into the short-list of not only one, but three categories: Best Mixed Use Development, Best Shopping Centre Development, and Best Sustainable Development.

The national awards program, now in its 34th year, celebrates Australia’s property development and investment industries. This year’s awards program has been narrowed down to 136 finalists in 18… Read more

INDESIGN Magazine
Issue 63 (Dec 2015)

One Central Park is the signature residential stage within the $2 billion Central Park mixed-use development’s substantial 5.8 hectare site located in Chippendale, Sydney. Its gateway quality address, on the southern boarder of the CBD in an established neighbourhood where there’s continuing improvement, infrastructure, and underlying transport, saw Frasers Property Australia acquire the site in 2007 for joint venture development with Sekisui House. An international line-up of eminent planners and architects was assembled to modify a pre-existing master plan.
PTW Architects was appointed on the design team for One Central Park’s… Read more

HABITUS Magazine
issue 30 (Dec 2015)

WHAT IS AN ICON? A place, a person, an object?
Thirty global creatives nominate their favourite icon and share their thoughts on what makes it so, and the significant role it plays in our everyday lives.

Koichi Takada
Architect
Sydney, Australia

Icon: Rem Koolhass
The Netherlands
1944 –

I first met Rem Koolhaas back in 1995, during my study at AA school in London. I still keep a vivid memory, or perhaps the moment felt more like a shock to me. Koolhaas had made a big impact on my… Read more

ARTICHOKE issue 53
Australia’s interiors and design magazine

In this month’s issue of ARTICHOKE, Koichi Takada Architects’ design for East Village was shortlisted for Best Identity Design in the 2015 Eat Drink Design Awards. Now in its fourth year, the annual award celebrated the best of Australia and New Zealand’s new eating and drinking interiors for 2015, showcasing innovation and excellence in the design of hospitality venues of all scales and types, retail environments for the sale of food and beverages and visual identities for both.

This year’s awards saw a record-breaking 176 entries across the six categories:… Read more

EAST VILLAGE

26 November 2015

Winner, Retail Category: East Village
PAYCE with Koichi Takada Architects & Turner

The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2015, Australia’s premier awards program for interior designers and architects, has nominated East Village as the winner of the retail category.

East Village urban marketplace has already taken out the Gold Award at the A’Design Awards, has won the Best Retail and Commercial Development category of the Urban Design Institute of Australia (UDIA) Awards and the Mixed Use category of the Sydney Design Awards, and has been shortlisted for numerous national and international awards… Read more

Koichi Takada Architects’ new website

23 November 2015

Koichi Takada Architects’ new website leaves the launch pad today. Apart from the fact you’ll find it fresh, engaging, straightforward to navigate and responsive on all devices – what you also need to know about its launch is the most visible evidence that KTA has entered an important new phase in its history. The new chapter is one not only characterised by the evolution of the brand but an unfolding of a larger mission: to take its particular expertise and architectural vision to the world (exciting things now happening across the globe,… Read more

Official Launch of Infinity by Crown Group

23 November 2015

How a new building design caught a city’s imagination

We’ll probably never know the full story of why there was such an unparalleled interest in Koichi Takada Architects’ latest project in Sydney’s Green Square – Infinity by Crown Group.

It’s telling that “engagement” was the central objective of the concept all along, says Koichi Takada — nevertheless Koichi admits to being “completely overwhelmed” by the extraordinary response to his firm’s design. “So many people called and texted me after its launch.”

“Infinity is the culmination of the past six… Read more

East Village is Shortlisted in the World Interiors News Awards

23 November 2015

Sydney’s East Village project, designed by Koichi Takada Architects has been shortlisted in the World Interiors News Awards 2015.

The building in Zetland, three kilometres from Sydney’s CBD, was opened in late 2014 and its design was inspired by some of the world’s great marketplaces, like New York’s Chelsea Markets and Barcelona’s Boqueria.

The building has a fresh food market, 50 shops, restaurants and cafes, a health club and medical centre.

The winners of the World Interiors News Awards will be announce on the 2nd of December… Read more

Koichi Takada Architects Office

23 November 2015

2015 has been a massive year for Koichi Takada Architects and this is no better evidenced than the recent expansion of the Sydney studio by 100 per cent. Already happily headquartered in a high-ceilinged, light-drenched ex-warehouse in inner Sydney the firm has grown from around 20 professionals to a figure nudging 50 this year. To make this possible KTA has been fortunate enough to be able to re-imagine its facilities by taking down a wall and swallowing the newly vacant office next door – just as the firm’s focus has burgeoned to… Read more