A High-Rise Embodying Obayashi Group's Craftsmanship in Bangkok, Thailand  Located in central Bangkok, Thailand's capital city, O-NES TOWER is a multi-tenant, large-scale office building with direct access to the adjacent Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) station. In this in-house development, Thai Obayashi Corporation Ltd., a member of the Obayashi Group, carried out everything from land acquisition through planning, design, and construction in collaboration with Obayashi C...

The Symbol of Recovery: An Indomitable Castle Reconstructed Time and Again  Kumamoto Castle is a renowned fortress built in 1607 by the feudal lord Kato Kiyomasa. Set on a small hill in the heart of Kumamoto City, it has long been cherished by residents as an emotional anchor. The original main tower burned down in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion. The tower standing today was rebuilt by Obayashi in 1960. In April 2016, the Kumamoto Earthquakes inflicted extensive...

Unlocking the Potential of a Land of Pristine Streams: A Restorative Landscape  The Rokka no Mori Project is a landscape design project centered on ecological restoration across an expansive, 100,000 m2 site undertaken when Rokkatei, a popular Hokkaido confectionery manufacturer, built a new factory there. Landscape design is mainly the practice of planning outdoor spaces to seamlessly blend artificial features with all-natural features, including trees, flowers, plants,...

Nature Within the City: All-Timber, Fire‑Resistant High-Rise  Completed in March 2022, Port Plus Obayashi Yokohama Training Center is Obayashi's training facility with on-site accommodations situated in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Obayashi aims for Port Plus to be "a place to cultivate the knowledge of tomorrow," where new experiences and learning can be gained, away from home and the workplace and from daily work duties. As the first all-timber high-rise fire-resistant...

Building a Ballpark the World Has Never Seen Before  Completed in 2023 in Kitahiroshima City, Hokkaido, ES CON FIELD HOKKAIDO is the home ballpark of the Japanese professional baseball team Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Its three-tier spectator stands can accommodate about 35,000 people. Giving top priority to harmony with the surrounding environment, the design blends into the locality with features such as a large gable roof, characteristic of Hokkaido, and multiple terr...

Planned urban development has been underway in the Minato Mirai 21 District in the waterfront area of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture since the 1980s. In conjunction with other companies, Obayashi Corporation is currently developing a large-scale complex called the Yokohama Symphostage that will house offices, a hotel, retail outlets, such as shops and restaurants and other tenants. Obayashi is in charge not only of the development, but also the design and construction of the complex, tr...

Obayashi Corporation's relationship with Bangladesh dates back to the construction of the Shitalakhya Bridge, which was completed in 1977. Currently, Obayashi is working on the construction of a new railway bridge designed to improve the efficiency of the nation's transportation network. The project is not just about dealing with the raging Jamuna River, but also about tackling the challenge of constructing bridge piers with a special foundation structure that are designed specifically for r...

Take the Keihan Main Line from Kyoto city center to Osaka and you will be struck by an eye-catching construction site just before arriving at Yodo Station. Obayashi Corporation has been renovating the Kyoto Racecourse, which will celebrate its grand reopening in April 2023. 100 years of tradition for future generations An illustration image of the completed grandstand. The Kyoto Racecourse will reopen in April 2023 under the new name of Centennial Park Kyoto Racecourse. The Ky...

Kitahiroshima City, located in the center of the Ishikari Plain between the Sapporo Station and the New Chitose Airport Station on Japan Railway Hokkaido Chitose Line, is a town among gently sloping hills with a harmonious blend of abundant nature and urban functions. It is an area where temperatures drop to -20℃ in winter, and construction is underway to build the new baseball park for the Nippon Professional Baseball Team, HOKKAIDO NIPPONHAM FIGHTERS. Constructing a new baseball parktha...

What would we do if we had the exact same city that we live in duplicated on our smartphones or digital devices and we were free to try out different kinds of lifestyles in that space? If we could easily simulate urban redevelopment and town planning like a game, many people would undoubtedly come up with ideas for making their cities more comfortable. The Obayashi Project Team has envisaged what it might be like when digital twins evolve and can be constructed on the scale of cities and to...

Agriculture has long faced a number of challenges in Japan: the nation's working population is declining and aging, and farming is considered a "3D" job-dirty, dangerous, and demanding. In addition, the value of gross production of agriculture is falling, and Japan faces a trade deficit for agricultural products. Thanks to technological advances and a diversity of business models in recent years, however, expressions like "smart agriculture," "agrobusiness," and "gainful agriculture" are more...

Tokyo was once called the "Venice of the East" because it was seen as a water city with an abundance of water resources that supported people's lives. However, that image of Tokyo as a water city gradually evaporated as boat transportation gave way to land transportation. Today, Tokyo, like other parts of the world, has its own share of water shortages. In fact, Tokyo has one of the most severe water shortages in the world with the city relying on neighboring prefectures for much...

Big data sheds light on unknown parts of society. In the daily lives of individuals and all fields of activity, vast amounts of data reveal previously unnoticed patterns and connections that can serve as guidelines for the next era. What kind of future can we expect from big data? The Obayashi project team envisioned an image of a city while deciphering the potential changes in people and society that big data will bring. What is Mosaic City? (Basic Concept) Mosaic City...

The space elevator is planned to be built by the year 2050  Obayashi pursues the potential for the future of the space elevator from a construction standpoint, and describes a newly-designed, whole-space elevator system, including its construction process, which we designed on the basis of work by construction engineers who completed the world's tallest free-standing tower, TOKYO SKYTREE®, in 2012. In the following animation, a space elevator which climbs from th...

Obayashi built the number one tower in the world!  TOKYO SKYTREE® has appeared in the Narihirabashi/Oshiage area of Sumida Ward, Tokyo in 2012. Boasting a height of 634 m, the tower is one of the world's tallest. The construction posed a substantial technical challenge, and Obayashi was utilizing a number of proprietary technologies in the construction of this new global landmark. Project outline Name TOKYO SKYTREE Location 1-chome Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Site area ...