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...

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 ...