[P.O. Real Estate Co., Ltd.] Pola Aoyama Building Tsuchiura Kameshiro Residence Restoration and Relocation Awarded the 2025 Good Design Award
P.O. Real Estate Co., Ltd. Press Release: October 21, 2025 Pola Aoyama Building Tsuchiura Kameshiro Residence Restoration and Relocation Awarded the 2025 Good Design Award Praised for creating a new style of office environment, incorporating a nursery school, and restoring and relocating the Tsuchiura Kameshiro residence The Pola Aoyama Building and the Tsuchiura Kameki Residence, owned by P.O. Real Estate Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yasuhiro Fukuda), have been awarded the 2025 Good Design Award (sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion). The Pola Aoyama Building aims to create an environment where architecture, art, and landscape harmonize with each other. It also houses the relocated Tsuchiura Kameki Residence, a Tokyo Tangible Cultural Property (structure) and one of the most significant pieces of architecture in the history of Japanese residential architecture. The building was also recognized for its diverse workspaces as an office building, as well as its inclusion of educational facilities such as a nursery school, making it a truly local community-based building. As a new cultural hub in Aoyama, we will continue to create connections with art and culture, promote the revitalization of the local community, and strive to achieve well-being. In addition, this work will be exhibited at the “GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2025,” an event showcasing all the winning works of the “2025 Good Design Award,” to be held at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Tokyo from November 1st (Sat) to 5th (Wed).
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134147/17/134147-17-de52b03ecaf4d38aa51c4d623c37ae74-2210×603.jpg Left: Pola Aoyama Building, 14th floor rooftop terrace / Artwork: Enrico Isamu Oyama “FFIGURATI #630” 2024 Artwork (C)Enrico Isamu Oyama EIOS, Center: Machi no Nursery School Minami Aoyama, Photo: Ohata Yoko, Right: Pola Aoyama Building Exterior / Artwork: SHIMURA bros “Eternal Scenery” 2024 (C) SHIMURA bros / Photo (C) Tatsuya Noaki (left and right) ■Pola Aoyama Building Overview [Location] 2-5-17 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo [Design Director] Koichi Yasuda [Design/Supervision] Yasuda Atelier Kume Sekkei [Structural design] Kanabako Structural Design Office, Kume Sekkei [Equipment design] Kume Sekkei [Landscape Design] Landscape Plus
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134147/17/134147-17-b3f31037e935ded5f74222a238f74803-1040×585.jpg Photo(C) Yasuda Atelier / Photo(C) Tatsuya Noaki ■ Artwork for the Pola Aoyama Building Enrico Isamu Oyama and artists from SHIMURAbros were involved from the early stages of the architectural design, aiming to create a spatial environment in which architecture, art, and landscape resonate and complement each other. The project aims to create a new type of office building where art, culture, and design coexist. Left: SHIMURAbros “Eternal Scenery” Right: Oyama Enrico Isamu “FFIGURATI #630”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134147/17/134147-17-e499d23376ce3f121beac3df9606f8e7-1035×473.jpg Photo(C)Tatsuya Noaki ■ Tsuchiura Kameshiro Residence Overview The residence is open to the public on guided tours two days a month, two to three times a day. [Location] 2-5-13 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo [Original design] Tsuchiura Kamejo/Nobuko Tsuchiura (1935, Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku) [Restoration/relocation design] Yasuda Atelier [Historical Research] Tokyo Institute of Technology, Taisuke Yamazaki Laboratory, Housing Technology Research Institute / Tokyo Institute of Technology, Koichi Yasuda Laboratory (Toru Naganuma, et al.)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134147/17/134147-17-6f87f0a549690f035dd1199a58e268d2-3900×2925.jpg Photo(C) Tsuchiura Kamejo Archives ■ Minami Aoyama Children’s Art Walk As part of our community contribution activities, utilizing the contemporary art installation at the Pola Aoyama Building and the Tsuchiura Kameki House, we will be holding a children’s program at the Minami Aoyama Children’s Art Walk, taking place November 15th (Sat)-16th (Sun). Enrico Isamu Oyama’s “FFIGURATI #630” and the SHIMURAbros installation space, which are normally closed to the public, will be open to the public. A lecture and sketch session will also be held at the Tsuchiura Kameki House. Applications for all programs requiring advance reservations will open on Tuesday, October 21st at 12:00 PM. For more information, please see the official website and the .
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134147/17/134147-17-2c40813a4600c347dc6edbd1f5da2c73-1108×895.png What is the Good Design Award? The Good Design Award is a
representative Japanese design evaluation and promotion initiative, inheriting the Good Design Product Selection System established in 1957. This global design award, attended by many companies and organizations both in Japan and overseas, is held annually with the aim of improving the quality of life and utilizing design to solve photography challenges and themes. The “G Mark,” the award symbol, is widely recognized as a symbol of excellent design.
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