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Highlights
Shiodome Tower — A High-Rise Building
Designed for People and the Environment
This eye-catching high-rise building in the Shiodome area in Tokyo’s Minato Ward is
the Shiodome Tower, designed and built by Kajima. Its exterior is clad with terracotta
tiles — a nature-friendly material — and the building is also equipped with the latest
environmental control technology. The result is a new style of high-rise building that
puts both people and the environment first.
Launch of the Akihabara IT Center (Tentative
Name) Redevelopment Project
Kajima’s IT Center (tentative name) Project is underway on a site in front of Akihabara
Station. Kajima and two other companies, NTT Urban Development and Daibiru
Corporation, won a publicly invited bid to acquire land that was owned by the Tokyo
Metropolitan Government. The IT Center will be a hub of international information technology,
serving as a center for new initiatives such as creation of new businesses
through industrial-academic collaboration, as a location for employee training, and as a
facility to bring people together.
New National Art Museum
under Construction
Construction is moving forward on a new national art museum (tentatively called the
“National Gallery”), in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. Based on the concept of “an art museum
surrounded by greenery,” the gallery will mark the birth of a new form of art museum
that focuses on exhibiting publicly invited art works. Construction is scheduled for
completion in August 2005.
Kajima Contracted to Build
Japan’s First PFI Library
A special purpose company (SPC) headed by Kajima has been contracted to build a
public complex that will house a library and other facilities, utilizing the private finance
initiative (PFI) method. Planned by Kuwana City in Mie Prefecture and designed by AXS
Satow Inc., the library will be Japan’s first to be operated by the private sector, and is
expected to provide high-quality public service. The complex is scheduled to open in
October 2004.