2008 Winners ICSC 32nd Design and International Development ...

Innovative Design and Development of A New Project
Vioro
Fukuoka City, Japan
MERIT AWARD
Waikiki Beach Walk
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
DESIGN AWARD
Owner/Management Company: Tokyo Tatemono Co., LTD
Design Architect: Laguarda Low Architects
Production Architect: Takenaka Corporation
Graphic/Lighting Designer: Nomura Kogei Ltd.
General Contractor: Takenaka Corporation
Development/Leasing/Finance Company: Tokyo Tatemono Co., LTD
Total Retail Space: 77,800 sq. ft.
Number of Stores: 59
Vioro is a reinvention of the modern department store, occupying a
corner site at the busiest intersection in Fukuoka’s high-end commercial
high street. Two levels below ground linked to subway and
subterranean shopping passages and six levels above provide venues
for a hip young shopping culture in the Tenjin area. The six above
ground levels of articulated interlocking boxes turn the modern
department store inside out, reinterpreting normally blank facades in
glass and light graphic treatments. Large scale boxes and folded planes
turn the corner and overlap horizontal surfaces and are further broken
down in display lightboxes on every level, floating within larger forms
and drawing interest from pedestrians well below. Façade articulations
relate directly to the functions behind which cover many consumer
needs of the young city dweller, from an urban deli to basic and casual
clothing to health- and beauty-related to the city lifestyle, culminating
in fine dining at a rooftop terrace overlooking the commercial district.
A variety of intricate steel meshes, patterned stones, and illuminated
glazed surfaces add weight to the argument of changing the way
department stores “fit” within the contemporary city.
Owner: ABW Lewers LLC
Management Company: Outrigger Enterprise Group
Design/Production Architect: Altoon + Porter Architects LLP
Graphic Designer: RSM Design
Lighting Designer: Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting
Landscape Architect: Walters Kimura Motoda, Inc.
General Contractor: Charles Pankow Builders Ltd.
Development Company: Outrigger Enterprises Group
Leasing Company: The Kaulana Corp.
Finance Company: Column Financial/Credit Suisse, and American Sa
Total Retail Space: 91,293 sq. ft.
Number of Stores: 48
Waikiki Beach Walk, the retail portion of the largest overall development
project in Waikiki’s history, honors and celebrates Hawaii and its culture.
The $585 million project has transformed a once-aging and deteriorating
district into a vibrant showcase and gathering place that is the face
of “the new Waikiki.” The 7.9-acre project features a 91,293-square-foot,
two-level, open air, urban retail center that is the centerpiece of a larger
mixed-use development. The shopping center is complemented by five
redeveloped hospitality properties, parking deck, pool deck, and cultural
venue serving visitor and local populations. Opened in May 2007, Waikiki
Beach Walk is the consummate expression of Hawaii today — a place
where people come to be enlivened with warm hospitality, a rich
confluence of cultures, and nature’s endowments from land and sea.