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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2004
Dramatic Osaka Brick Statement Wins
Export Award
Kosei Shoken office building in Osaka (the city's tallest brick building) uses more than 320,000 Ibstock Leicester Bradgate Harvest Antique bricks as a cladding material.
A recent BDA Export winner, comprising a team of architect Yuzo Nagata and Kosei Securities of Japan, the Kosei Shoken building in Osaka was designed mirroring a previous award-winning building, the Kosei Shoken head office building in Tokyo, Tokyo's largest brick building The Osaka building used Ibstock Leicester Bradgate Harvest Antique bricks and was extensively supported by Ibstock's CAD services to achieve the highly artistic finish required to the facade
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The twelve storey high Kosei Shoken office building in Osaka (the city's tallest brick building) uses more than 320,000 Ibstock Leicester Bradgate Harvest Antique bricks as a cladding material over an earthquake proof concrete structure.
The intricacies of the brickwork surface detail and its combination with highly decorative metalwork are an expression of Mr Nagata's unique and dramatic style; Ibstock has been working with Mr Nagata for nearly 20 years and is the premier brick exporter to Japan.
The building fa?ade features three large arches infilled by the metalwork screens, with large multi-brick quoins, and surmounted by different pierced shapes including bulls-eyes and square window openings.
Brick is also used throughout the interior of the ground floor, forming vaulted arches which frame a large metal sculpture.
The intricate surface patterns of the bricks are achieved with standard bricks cut to different thicknesses, and a total of 98,000 special shapes and 24,000 specially produced brick voussoirs (tapered stretchers used for arch formation) were supplied.
Ibstock's CAD services were extensively used to ensure that the bricks were manufactured to the specified shapes, which would recreate Mr Nagato's vision.
The Kosei building is designed to contrast with the surrounding contemporary offices in the Kitahara financial district of Osaka, and has a prominent riverside position.
At 40 metres high, with an additional tower structure it dominates the local skyline, and provides 4500sq.m.
of office space.
Commenced in Spring 2000 it was complete in mid-2001.
Kosei Securities Building, Yodoyabasi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Client: Kosei Securities Co.
Ltd.
Architect: Yuzo Nagata, Shunji Kitano and Associates.
Architects and Engineers 5-9 Iwasono-Cho, Ashiya-Shi, Hyogo, Japan.
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