JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED RESEARCH LABS9 labs
Research labs with atriums
9 research labs in Japan with atriums where researchers meet. Areas include Yokkaichi, Seika, Sengawa, Yokohama, Kadoma, Nogi. Each page has interior photos, the architects, whether you can visit, and the careers page.
A research building that links departments with an engawa beside the stairs
Open areas of wooden terraces that shift and overlap
A “mille-feuille” that alternates research floors and office floors
A drug-discovery base with a 300 m corridor, the Spine, linking every building
A research base with a misty green wall and a four-storey atrium
A research building with blue cubes floating in a three-storey atrium
A workspace of Tochigi timber and Oya stone under a big roof
150-metre offices joined by a 6-metre-wide “band core”
Japan's first zero-water building, which reuses its water
