Mitsui Fudosan is Japan's largest construction company. Founded 330 years ago in the midtown Tokyo, it has a diversified real estate and business portfolio. The company mission is to offer the finest in luxury and comfort within the urban fabric.  

Mitsui Fudosan has won 21 Architecture and Environmental Design Category awards for residential buildings, commercial buildings, offices, administrative headquarters, etc. A number of their buildings have won awards in the Family Use and Communication and Design categories.

 

MITSUI FUDOSAN CO. LTD,

1-1 Nihonbashi-Muromachi 2 chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0022, Japan

 

The 17 award-winning residential buildings:

The guiding principles of the building projects comprise four points:

1. Development aiming at enhancing the project as it matures, seeking historical continuity in every urban development project, where the inevitable aging of the structure is balanced by its historical and conceptual enrichment over time.  

Park Court Mitaka and Fine Court Futakotamagawa both won Architecture and Environmental Design awards in 2004.

2. Residential development with an eye to ecosystems and the environment. Projects are developed in harmony with the surrounding environment, promoting its conservation and enhancement.  

Park City Seijo (2004), Park Homes Soshigaya Okura Gardens Court (2005) Architecture and Environmental Design winners.

3. Innovative, cutting-edge development. Mitsui Fudosan offers luxurious and comfortable urban lifestyles, thanks to the increase in previously undeveloped high potential residential areas in the city center.  

4. Development with design as a priority value. Mitsui Fudosan carries out comprehensive design that embraces innovation as well as the traditions of the Land of the Rising Sun in order to bring luxury and comfort into the lives of residents and to create aesthetically harmonious buildings.

Park Maison Azabu Kasumicho won a Family Use award in 2000. Park Court Ichigaya Kagacho 2-Chome (2002), Park Mansion Chidorigafuchi, Park Mansion Minami Azabu, and Park Tower Shibaura Bay Ward (2005) are award winners in the Architecture and Environmental Design category.  

 

 

The complex also won an award in 2005 for the successful recovery of the areas in front of it, Coredo Nihonbashi. The multipurpose complex with offices and stores is located in Nihonbashi, the business district of historic Tokyo, which has witnessed alternating cycles of boom and bust since the Edo period. Numerous recent public and private initiatives have infused new vigor into the area. The design of the Nihonbashi complex transmits and reflects the characteristics of its neighborhood, especially the fusion between old and new, expressed in the curved glass facade and the imposing stone walls.

 

 

Completion of work on the Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower in July 2005

Design by Cesar Pelli & Associates (133,727 square meters)

New milestone in the Nihonbashi district, the 39-floor skyscraper accommodates a variety of functions, including offices and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, reaffirming and complementing the great historical and cultural significance of the Mitsui Main Building, which is part of the project. The blend of tradition and modernity, between preserving the existing structure and fusion with the new, is beautifully exemplified by the incorporation of a structural pillar of the Main Building into a wall of the new Tower.  

 

Inauguration of the Tokyo Midtown in spring 2007

Design S.O.M. (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) (569,000 square meters)

This very large complex, covering an area of approximately 10 hectares (25 acres), includes offices, stores, hotels, and housing all sharing the "Japanese values" whereby traditional Japanese structural concepts and elements are applied within a design approach.  

Tokyo Midtown will become the new center of art and design, with the Suntory Museum of Art, the 21_21 Design Sight, an architecture of Tadao Ando, which will include Issey Miyake among its directors, and a number of design institutes, including the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization.