Google recently revealed the opening of it’s latest office in the shopping district of Roppongi in Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Japanese architecture firm Klein Dytham, the interior concept was inspired by Japanese festivals, bathhouses, fish ponds and timber houses. Like most of the Google offices, the space is characterized by its vibrant colours and open working spaces to encourage an active interaction between employees.
Each area has an altogether different theme revolving around elements of local history and culture. While one of the spaces was imagined as a typical bathhouse with white ceramic tiles covering the floors and computer stations resemble dressing tables with large mirrors and a painted mural of Mount Fuji on the rear wall, another meeting area is designed with traditional Japanese low tables and cushions with Tatami floor.
“Google prefers that each of their national offices around the world reflects the unique culture of its location,” says architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein. “Our design for the earlier phases of the project had taken cues from the graphics of traditional Japanese fabrics and contemporary anime, but then Google requested an even more vivid evocation of Japanese culture.”
