Takanabe Ninomaru
Takanabe Ninomaru Historic Museum by Tomohiro Kaji is a winner of the 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design.
Takanabe Ninomaru is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
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Takanabe Historical Museum, established in 1986, was reimagined to address declining visitor engagement due to outdated exhibits. The redesign embraced JIN, the philosophy of benevolence, transforming it into a cultural and educational hub fostering civic pride. Through visual storytelling and spatial design, the renewal introduced thematic curation, immersive exhibitions, and layered acrylic panels symbolizing historical continuity. Renamed Ninomaru History Museum, it now serves as an interactive space where heritage, education, and community connect.
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Takanabe Ninomaru by Tomohiro Kaji
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Historic Museum
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Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Takanabe Ninomaru Historic Museum
Takanabe Ninomaru is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Takanabe Ninomaru is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Takanabe Ninomaru creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Tomohiro Kaji
Tomohiro Kaji is a former creative director for UNIQLO Co., Ltd. He graduated from Academy of Art University, San Francisco and joined UNIQLO Co., Ltd. in 2008 as the first graphic designer in its communications field. He’s built and managed an in-house creative team contributing global branding projects including HEATTECH and Ultra Light Down product branding, product marketing and digital integraded campaigns. He founded TOMODACHI Ltd. (https://tomodachiltd.com) in 2019, an independent creative agency to create art + strategy for branding, and became its representative director. Tomohiro has opened Kishu-Ann, a renovated villa built in Edo period – about 200 years ago to provide a private stay of classic Japanese experience. (kishu-ann.com)
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Takanabe Town Hall
Takanabe Town Hall is the administrative center of Takanabe Town, located in Koyu District, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It oversees local governance, public services, and community development. The town hall manages various sectors, including education, welfare, urban planning, and cultural preservation, contributing to regional sustainability. It also supports historical projects, such as the revitalization of the Takanabe Town Historical Museum, to promote civic pride and historical awareness.
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