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An article in "Lighting Design"

The MUZA Kawasaki, lighting design by Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc., made the cover of a Romanian magazine, "Lighting Design (Octobrie-Decembrie 2008)." The project was introduced in detail, taking over 6 pages.

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Ray6

Ray6, the latest brochure of Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. introducing the projects in 2006-2008, was published. Compared to Ray5 published in 2005, it seems that lighting design has become well-established in residential environment.

In our project completed on November 1st, "the Symphony of Garden Lightings" in Chinzan-so and Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, we opened up a new field of garden lightings by mainly using LED fixtures. There, we also succeeded in cutting the power consumption by 50% than before. We would like to continuously develop new lighting designs with global environment in mind.

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The second stage selection committee of the AACA Award and the Yoshinobu Ashihara Award

Reiko Chikada attended the second stage selection committee of the AACA Award and the Yoshinobu Ashihara Award as a committee member. The committee selected the winners among the projects that had been reviewed by the members.

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The 6th Ota City Scape Award

Reiko Chikada attended the 6th Ota City Scape Award's second stage selection committee as the chairwoman. After the on-site review, the committee selected the winner.

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The Christmas Tree Illumination of Ginza Mikimoto

The Christmas Tree Illumination of Ginza Mikimoto made its lighting ceremony.During November 8th-December 25th, the illumination is turned on from 10:00am to 22:00pm.

This year, the main theme of the illuminaton is "bells." On the hour every hour (except 17:00pm on Saturday, Sunday, and holiday), 3-minutes illumination show with music will be played. In the show, you will hear the ringing sounds of the bells from all over the world.

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The City Scape Forum 2008 in Toda Ciay

Reiko Chikada attended the City Scape Forum 2008 in Toda Ciay as a panelist. She participaed in the discussion from the viewpoint of the night lighting of the city.

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The garden lightings of Chinzan-so and Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo

The garden lightings of Chinzan-so and Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, "the Symphony of Garden Lightings", made its grand opening. Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. worked on this project since spring, 2008.

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Ginza Takamoto Building Completed

You will find the Ginza Takamoto Building by turning into a small alley from the Sotobori Street, Ginza (Architect: Spatial Design Studio).
10 luminous panels on the building's facade, each lit with lines of white LEDs on right and left ends, form a dignified elegance at night.
As evening deepens into night, lighting of each panel changes from fully lit condition to soft gradation from one side.

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The 6th Ota Urban Design Award

Reiko Chikada attended the selection committee of The 6th Ota Urban Design Award (Ota City, Gunma, Japan) as a committee member.

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18th AACA Award and The 7th Yoshinobu Ashihara Award

Reiko Chikada attended the selection committee of The 18th AACA Award and The 7th Yoshinobu Ashihara Award (Organizer: AACA) as a committee member.

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Renovation of Toyota Industry Culture Center (Architects: Toyota City and Yamashita Sekkei Inc.)

Along with the renovation of the Planetarium and the Science Hall, we designed new lightings in the 60m-long approach and in the open space next to the parking lot.The theme of the new lightings is "Excite the Curiosity."

The lightings turn into blue for 3 minutes on the hour every hour, as well as the Toyota Ohashi Bridge, the Toyota Stadium, and the Toyota-shi Station of which we planned the lightings in previous years.

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The Cascades Jingumae (Architect: Nikken Housing System)

We created "Kekkai (a spiritual barrier)" against the noisy outside world by lighting up the surrounding walls of the condominium and designed lightings which would capitalize the appealing water scenery in the courtyard.

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2008 International Illumination Design Award

From the left, our lighting design for the Sky Hall Toyota (Architect: MHS Planners,Architects & Engineers) and Toshima-ku Medical Center (Architect: Yamamoto Hori Architects) won the Award of Merit, and the lighting design for the Nezu Shrine (Architect: HUKUHAMA Yoshihiro) won the Section Award of 2008 International Illumination Design Award.

Exterior and Interior lighting of the Sky Hall Toyota which is popular among the citizens, exterior lighting of the Toshima-ku Medical Center planned to work as a lighthouse in an emergency, and the security lighting of the Nezu Shrine leaving the darkness received high evaluation.

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Shinshukan

Shinshukan Four Season's Hill (Architect: Atelier Zo) in Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture, was opened. Since the completion of Shinshukan in 1980, elevators were added,the facade was renovated to glass facade, and the circular lawn yard (the Four Season's Hill) was added. The Shinshukan became a beautiful place to visit at night with our lighting design of the corridor facing the hill. It will be the main spot for the community events such as music concerts,theatrical performances, and festivals.

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The Saitama City Scenery Council

Reiko Chikada attended the Saitama City Scenery Council as a member .

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The Kawasaki City Scenery Council meeting

Reiko Chikada attended the Kawasaki City Scenery Council meeting as a member. She took part in discussion on the basic guideline of each area's scenery plan.

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Landscape lighting of the Jinan Ward Office in Shandong, People's Republic of China

Landscape lighting of the Jinan Ward Office in Shandong, People's Republic of China, was completed. The lightings on the roof, the sides, and the center of the building are set gold for the usual times, and change into red on holidays and white during the Ching Ming Festival (similar to Obon Festival in Japan.)

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A lecture "Night Scenery"

Reiko Chikada delivered a lecture titled "Night Scenery" at Tokyo Ginza Rotary Club.

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Won the 2008 Illumination Promoting Awards

Our lighting design of the OKUMA Auditorium, Waseda University (architectural design by AXS SATOW inc.) and the Sky Hall Toyota (previous provisional title:"Toyota City Gymnasium Main Arena", architectural design by MHS Planners, Architects & Engineers) won the 2008 Illumination Promoting Awards.

Hisae Nozawa, our Chief Designer, who was in charge of both projects attended the award ceremony hosted by the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan.

For the exterior lighting design of the Okuma Auditorium, we successfully illuminated the upper part of the tower by using the spotlights with specially-designed glass filters to soften the edge of the lights and the LEDs. As for the Sky Hall Toyota, our lighting design which aimed at creating an attractive facility for the citizens was highly evaluated.

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The old Fourth High School

The community hall of "the old Fourth High School Main Building" which is designated as an important national cultural asset was reopened as "Ishikawa Fourth High School Memorial Community Hall."

The redbrick building, preserved since its completion in 1891, appeared visionally in lights.
In our landscape lighting plan, we made use of the indoor lighting coming through the windows of the hall by turning on some lights after the closing time of the hall until the lights-out time of the exterior lighting. We also took great care in using the lamps which make the redbricks look most naturally.

The 18th family head of Maeda Family, former castellan of the Kanazawa Castle, became the first Director of the Memorial Community Hall. The Hall is expected to work as the center of cultural communication and to increase the popularity of the downtown area of Kanazawa city.

The photographs above (from the left to the right): the article of Hokkoku Shimbun on April 27, old Fourth High School building, graduated students of the Fourth High School attending the First-Lighting ceremony. THe photographs below: the new building and its landscape lighting.

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COLOR SESSION 2008

Reiko Chikada delivered lecture at a seminar, COLOR SESSION 2008, held at the Tokyo Big Site.She introduced three effects of colors of lighting in lighting designs.

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Spring Light-up of Hamarikyu Onshi Teien

Starting from March 20th, we have illuminated the rape blossoms, someiyoshino, and yaezakura in Hamarikyu Onshi Teien at each flowering time.
The illuminations are carefully designed to enhance the features of the flowers, and they attracted the garden visitors.
(Hosted by Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, Cooperation by Martin Professional Japan, Tokyo Butai Showmei, and Kobayashidenso.)
We added a subtle touch to our illumination by using shining golden color, the color of the rape blossoms, in the illuminations of the "300-year old pine tree" and the "Otsutaibashi Bridge" since the rape blossoms were illuminated for the first time.

This year, 12 garden lanterns with ink-paintings of various flowers added an extra touch of class to the Spring Light-up of Hamarikyu Onshi Teien. The paintings were specially drawn by Kazue Kuyama, a painter famous for books such as "The Four Seasons of Oze," and "36 Views of Mt.Fuji in Wash Drawings."

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The "2008 Spring Illumination" of Hamarikyu Onshi Teien

Reiko Chikada Lighting Design, Inc. has designed the "2008 Spring Illumination" of Hamarikyu Onshi Teien. It is our second year to do the illumination. This year, there are 3 illumination periods: "Rape Blossoms", "Someiyoshino (Cherry Blossoms)", and "Yaezakura (Cherry Blossoms)."
In each period, our lighting design is aimed to make the flowers look most beautiful.

The illumination Schedule is as below:
Rape Blossoms: March 20(Thursday) - March 23(Sunday), Sunset - 21:00
Someiyoshino : April 3(Thursday) - April 6(Sunday), Sunset - 21:00
Yaezakura : April 12(Saturday) - April 20(Sunday), Sunset - 21:00

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The Otsu City Scenery Council meeting

Reiko Chikada attended the Otsu City Scenery Council meeting as a member. She discussed about the Guideline on the Otsu City Scenery Plan.

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The keynote address in the Kawaguchi City Scenery Forum

Reiko Chikada gave the keynote address, "Creating City Scenery with Lighting," in the Kawaguchi City Scenery Forum held at a city hall. She also joined the panel discussion, "Creation of Kawaguchi City Scenery."

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The Kawasaki City Scenery Council meeting

Reiko Chikada attended the Kawasaki City Scenery Council meeting as a member. She took part in discussion on the basic guideline of each area's scenery plan.

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The Chiba City Scenery Council

Reiko Chikada attended the Chiba City Scenery Council as a member and participated in discussion on the City Scenery Plan of Chiba City.

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A Happy New Year.

I believe that the lighting designers are now expected to create lights with a sense of life, a sense of space, and a sense of time.
This year, I will keep on challenging new expression of lights, out of sheer desire to enjoy the moment of lighting after overcoming many hurdles.

Reiko Chikada

The latest work of Reiko Chikada displayed at the "Lighting Objet 2007"