Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Native name
株式会社日建設計
TypePrivate (Kabushiki gaisha)
IndustryArchitecture
Engineering
Planning/Urbanism
Founded1900; 124 years ago (1900)
Headquarters
Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Tadao Kamei
(President and CEO)
Services
  • Architectural design
  • Interior design
  • Urban design and planning
  • Landscape design
  • Structural engineering
  • MEP engineering
  • Civil engineering
  • Computation design & BIM
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience
  • Consulting
Number of employees
2,685 (as of April 1, 2019)
Websitewww.nikken.co.jp/en
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Nikken Sekkei (日建設計) is an architectural, planning and engineering firm from Japan, with headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Today (2019), Nikken Sekkei ranks as the second largest architectural practice in the world.[3]

Staff and Offices

As of 2019, the group employs 2,685 workers and has completed more than 25,000 projects in more than 50 countries. Nikken Sekkei's International offices are in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Seoul, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Dubai, Riyadh, Moscow, Barcelona; Bangkok; while the Japanese branches are located in: Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sendai. The newest office opened in 2023 in Dubai, UAE.[2]

History

Nikken Sekkei dates its origins back to 1900, as an offspring of Sumitomo Corporation.[4] Under the name of Sumitomo Temporary Architecture Department, it was founded in response to Sumitomo's need to establish a headquarters. The company established its independence from the Sumitomo Corporation in the 1950s under the name Nikken Sekkei Komu Co. Ltd.[5] As a private practice since 1970, Nikken Sekkei has maintained its In-house Shareholder Corporate System and is partly owned by its employees.[2]

Nikken Sekkei together with Nikken Sekkei Research Institute (NSRI), Hokkaido Nikken Sekkei, Nikken Sekkei Civil Engineering (NSC), Nikken Housing System Ltd (NHS), Nikken Space Design (NSD), Nikken Sekkei Construction Management (NCM) forms the Nikken Group.

President and CEO

Tadao Kamei has served as CEO and President of Nikken Sekkei since 2015.

Selected projects

Among other notable projects, Nikken Sekkei was the primary architectural firm for the Tokyo Skytree, currently (2019) the tallest self-supporting broadcasting tower in the world, and second tallest man made structure of any kind.

In 2016 it has been selected by FC Barcelona for the redesign of the largest stadium in Europe.[7] and in 2018, Sumitomo Forestry, in collaboration with Nikken Sekkei, announced the study of W350 Project, the future tallest timber tower (350 meters) and Japan tallest building.[8]

Group companies

References

  1. ^ "Corporate Data". Nikken Sekkei. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Company Overview of Nikken Sekkei Ltd". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  3. ^ "The World's 20 Largest Architecture Firms". ArchDaily. May 8, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  4. ^ Buckley, Sandra (March 7, 2006). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. Routledge. pp. 359–360. ISBN 978-1-134-76353-5.
  5. ^ Watanabe, Hiroshi (2001). The Architecture of Tokyo: An Architectural History in 571 Individual Presentations. Edition Axel Menges. p. 122. ISBN 978-3-930698-93-6.
  6. ^ Bloom, Jonathan; Blair, Sheila S.; Blair, Sheila (May 14, 2009). Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set. Vol. 2. OUP USA. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.
  7. ^ Mafi, Nick (March 9, 2016). "FC Barcelona Taps Nikken Sekkei to Renovate Camp Nou Stadium". Architectural Digest. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  8. ^ Hunt, Elle (February 16, 2018). "Plyscraper city: Tokyo to build 350m tower made of wood". The Guardian. Retrieved April 19, 2019.

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