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The Japan Sign Design Association presented their 38th annual SDA Awards honoring high-quality signage design that sets new industry standards. The Okamoto Glass Company's thin film facilities, for which ILYA designed the signage and building coloration, received a 2004 SDA Award. Seeing the factory as a vehicle for expressing Okamoto's corporate identity, we used glass as a motif in a clear and simple design solution that creates workspace pleasant to work in. Okamoto Glass Company's Thin Film Division develops and manufactures "cold light" glass products such as reflectors for projectors, automobile headlights and dental mirrors.

The Mainichi Newspapers Kyushu Center Kitakyushu Factory, which began full operation in February 2002 as the printing and distribution center of the Mainichi Newspapers Company Western division, is equipped with the newest and most powerful printing presses to provide faster, more colorful printed pages. Kajima Design was responsible for the architecture, and ILYA for the exterior and interior coloring and signage design. The design centers around bold coloration of the printing presses and the machinery, with Mainichi Newspapers' "intelligent blue" as the main color, and generous use of the logotype to make the factory an expression of the corporate identity and create a space that is pleasant to work in.

In July 2000 Hotel Nikko Bayside Osaka, under construction next to Universal Studios Japan, conducted the Hotel Nikko International Interior Design Competition via the interenet. The site's official requirements page registered approximately 4500 hits, and of 58 entries, including 8 from 4 foreign countries, the proposal by ILYA's Hisato Murai was awarded first place. Owned by Sougou Shouji, operated by JAL Hotels, architectural design by Murai and Partners, Ltd., the 32 story, 641room hotel is scheduled to open in April 2002. 'Fly to the dream' - the airship-like, modern hotel is soon to open.

Under the design supervision of NTT Facilities, ILYA was responsible for the interior and graphic design of the mobile cafe Acqua, which opened in April, and the NTT DoCoMo Saitama Showroom, located respectively on the second and third floors of the NTT DoCoMo Saitama building. The environmental graphics of both facilities were selected for Japan Sign Design Association (SDA) Awards in the environmental graphics category of the commercial division. Symbolic of the communications media's ability to transcend a variety of boundaries, the design theme "aqua - aero" was expressed as an airy and comfortable atmosphere. The synergistic effect from fusing interior and graphics creates a space that gives the experience of rising from aqua to floating on aero.

When the LG Group, one of South Korea's top three conglomerates, built their second corporate headquarters in the Kangnam district of Seoul, they nominated ILYA for the interior design of the special facilities. In 1998, owner LG Mart elected 10 design firms from Japan and the US, from which the jury chose ILYA based on their proposal and interview. Selected from a number of American and European architectural firms, SOM Chicago designed the 38 story highrise building and arts center (theatre). ILYA was responsible for the schematic design of the sky lounge, auditorium, event hall, and various restaurants; Min Associates of South Korea executed the detail design and documentation. Upon completion of the project in November 1999, LG Mart awarded ILYA the Owner's Award for their role as one of the principal designers of LG Kangnam Tower.

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Sansei Kai medical corporation, which operates a range of facilities including Horie Hospital, Kibo no Sono elderly care facility, the Ota City home care support center Horie, and the visiting service center Minami, opened a new 61-bed elderly care home “Rappers Ota” in Gunma Prefecture. (Design by Ishii Sekkei; Construction by Ishikawa Kensetsu).

ILYA assisted in the selection and purchasing of all furniture, artwork, interior elements, and tableware for the new facility, and developed a model room to display the comfort of this living environment, which was well-received by both the facility management and the families of the residents.

Willmark Kashiihama is a new form of senior citizen apartment housing / assisted living, promoted by Fukuoka Jisho Senior Life Co., Ltd. Built in a residential section of the City of Fukuoka, the complex is characterized by its hotel-like interiors and substantial services.

ILYA was responsible for interior design supervision and the selection and procurement of furniture and fixtures on this project, and for their contribution to raising the quality of the facility overall, ILYA received the Owner's Award.

Upon the relocation of their offices to Mori Tower, the symbol of Roppongi Hills, TMI Associates appointed ILYA as their interior designers.
With a staff of over 200, including more than 80 attorneys, patent attorneys, and legal professionals, TMI Associates is new style law firm unprecedented in Japan.
Making optimal use of Mori Tower's distinctive elliptical floor plan, we succeeded in creating unique, highly advanced law office facilities. Thus upon completion we received a letter of appreciation from the firm commending us for our "creative efforts applying superlative sensibilities to the design of office space with functional aesthetics that make it an optimal intellectual environment."

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