IHI Stage Around Tokyo

Immersive entertainment facility

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Construction of the first immersive entertainment facility in Asia, with 360° rotating seats

Asia’s first immersive entertainment facility

IHI Stage Around Tokyo is the first immersive entertainment facility in Asia and the second in the world. The giant circular audience seating arrangement includes 1,314 seats and rotates a full 360 degrees, with the stage and screens surrounding it. This makes it possible to realize an elaborate, magnificent stage space that cannot be experienced in conventional theaters.

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Lucerne Festival Ark Nova

Giant movable concert hall

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A movable concert hall featuring a gigantic pneumatic membrane structure, originally proposed to support recovery of the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

A musical ark from Switzerland

The Lucerne Festival Ark Nova was first erected in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture in 2013 and was also moved to Sendai in 2014, Fukushima in 2015 and Tokyo Midtown in 2017. World-famous architect Arata Isozaki collaborated with Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor to design and build this movable concert hall, which can hold approximately 500 people. In order to support recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake through music, performances by artists from the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland and also by an orchestra formed by children from the Tohoku region were held in the Ark Nova concert hall. It has been covered widely by domestic and foreign media, and its music festivals have connected Tohoku and the world.

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HOUSE VISION 2016

New Tokyo Waterfront Subcenter J-Area

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An information dissemination and research platform created to present ways of living for Japanese people, based on the philosophy of “living in cities with a new common sense”

Co-dividual: divide and connect, separate and gather

“Divide and connect, separate and gather” recorded over 5,000 visitors on its final day. The organizers were able to feel a great sense of elation seeing the number of visitors increasing exponentially as the exhibition progressed, and the crowds of excited young people. The event functioned as an opportunity to offer perspectives on how to reintegrate contemporary issues such as fragmented communities and families, declining/aging populations, declining birthrates, and fragmented technologies in a new environment, once again making the “house” a place where participants could feel that it functioned as a platform for discussing the various issues of society, the world, and the future.

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Yanmar Agri-Solution Center Demo Field

Expansive test-drive facility

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Japan's first permanent building with an original design using vertically-placed 40-foot shipping containers

Aiming for the creation of new agriculture

A vast test-drive facility covering approximately 3 hectares, where participants can test-drive various agricultural machines such as tractors. An RTK base station (which improves GPS accuracy with a precision positioning system using interferometric positioning) is installed, allowing participants to experience GPS auto guidance and precision auto steering. The observation lounge is an original-design permanent building constructed using vertically-placed 40-foot shipping containers; a Japan first.

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Nomadic Museum - Gregory Colbert Exhibition

Movable building

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Gregory Colbert's worldview experience (Photo & video exhibition, photobook & DVD sales)

A museum that moves from port to port

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Toyosu PIT, Iwaki PIT, Sendai PIT

Live entertainment theaters

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Reconstruction support project for areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

Come together, for inspiration. Come together, for smiles for Tohoku.

[Construction of four PIT theaters, including in Toyosu, Iwaki and Sendai]
In 2014 and 2015, Team Smile continues to support recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake through entertainment, opened the Team Smile PIT (Power Into Tohoku!) live entertainment theaters in Tokyo and the three prefectures of Tohoku. PIT opened in Toyosu, Tokyo in October 2014, followed by Iwaki in July 2015 and Sendai in March 2016.

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Temporary Cargo Handling Center for Ishinomaki City Seafood Local Wholesale Market

Ishinomaki Fishing Harbor Temporary Cargo Handling Center

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Temporary Cargo Handling Center illuminated by the lights of reconstruction

Ishinomaki fishing harbor is said to be one of the world's three largest fishing grounds, and the fishery industry that makes use of this resource was greatly developed, and had become a base for the distribution of catches and the seafood processing industry. The tsunami from the Great East Japan Earthquake caused catastrophic damage to fishing ports, wholesale markets, the fishery industry and fishery-related industrial facilities, causing flooding and ground liquefaction due to large-scale land subsidence.
For Ishinomaki City, whose key industry is the fishery industry, the early recovery of these industrial groups will be the first step toward the recovery of Ishinomaki City.

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Open Country & Open Port Y150

Yokohama Minato Mirai 21 New Port / Yamashita & Yamate area / Zoorasia area

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150th anniversary event for Yokohama Port opening

A grand exposition with an innovative design

Under the theme of “voyage to the future”, Yokohama citizens, nurtured by various "seeds of power", companies and stores with connections to Yokohama, artists, filmmakers, etc. gathered in the “mother port” Yokohama for a festival that condensed the charm, history and future of Yokohama in the three areas of sea, city and nature.

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Great East Japan Earthquake Onagawa Town Temporary Housing

Multi-story temporary housing facility

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Emergency temporary housing in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

Multi-story temporary housing facility using marine shipping containers

In order to solve the shortage of land for temporary housing in Onagawa Town, the nation's first two- and three-story temporary housing facility was built as a last resort. The housing spaces are made by connecting sturdy shipping containers, and the bedrooms, baths and toilets are installed inside the containers, with the space between the containers as an open LDK space. 189 units were built consisting of three variants: 1DK, 2DK and 3DK, representing high-performance dwellings that provide excellent earthquake resistance, heat insulation, sound insulation and fire resistance. The exteriors are painted pink and light blue, providing a simple, clean look, and the interiors are furnished with homely furniture and storage made by volunteers.

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Kumagaya Rugby Stadium
Temporary stand installation

Kumagaya Rugby Stadium

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Temporary stands with 1,712 seats installed at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium

Installation of a large temporary stand made overseas

Kumagaya Rugby Stadium was one of the venues for the Rugby World Cup 2019^TM in Japan. The number of seats overlooking the entire field was increased, allowing spectators to see the powerful plays up close. In addition, a VIP room, private seating and a warm-up room with artificial turf were built, transforming it into a top-level stadium.

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