Suga Architects Office Co. Ltd.

Profile of Suga Architects Office Co. Ltd.

Business Name

Suga Architects Office Co. Ltd.

Location

Japan

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.suga-architects-office.com

Principal(s)

Tadashi Suga, Atsuo Okishio, Shintaro Fukuhara, Mitsunobu Yamagishi and Kazuhiro Doi

Philosophy

We do not create architecture depending on special styles or principles, but by considering what essentially the situation requires.

We consider what people want to feel in the buildings, what makes them comfortable and happy, including elements such as: color, sound, smell, kind of brightness, flow of light and wind, form, space, forgotten feelings in a busy daily life, landscape and so on. All those elements touch people's senses, enthuse them and make them feel good.We also try to go beyond these elements and seek a universal solution.

Background

• Founded: 1993
• Offices: 2
• Design team: 7

Key projects

• Mistumura, Commercial building, Hyogo, Japan, 2007
• Rics Pro, Rokko Island Driving school, Hyogo, Japan, 2007
• Le cabaret, bar, Osaka, Japan, 2005
• House at Nagata, Single family house, Hyogo, Japan, 2005
• Black House, Single family house, Hyogo, Japan, 2002
• Strata House, Apartment house, Hyogo, Japan, 2000

Key publications

• LiVES, Dec 2007 & Jan 2008
• LiVES, Oct & Nov, 2007
• CONFORT, October, 2007
• ShoutenKenchiku extra edition Restaurants& Bars, June, 2007
• THE GOLD, September, 2007
• Shouten-Kenchiku Monthly Magazine of Shop Design & Interior Design September, 2007
• SPA-DE Vol.5, Fareast Design Editors, May, 2006
• The best interiors, April, 2006
• High-Rise CONDOMINIUMS in Japan, Graphic-sha, December, 2006
• Low-Rise CONDOMINIUMS in Japan, Graphic-sha, July, 2006

Key awards

• Prize of Japan Federation of Architects Building Engineers Associations, Japan, 2004
• American Wood Design Award, 2004
• Enviormental Design Prize, Kobe-city, Japan, 2004
• Kusunoki Architectural & Cultural Prize, Hyogo, Japan, 2001
• Grand Prix of the 5th order's competition of Kobe Seishin-Minami, Japan
• Awarded at the Grand Prix of TIME Design Competition
• Awarded at the Excellent Prize of Kawa-Tetsu Design Competition
• Awarded at S× L Design Competition
• Awarded at the Monument Design Competition of the Symbol Gate at Shin-Kaichi shopping mall, Hyogo, Japan