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drafting the JIS Outdoor Workplace Illumination Criteria

Reiko Chikada attended the meeting held by The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan to draft the JIS Outdoor Workplace Illumination Criteria,and delivered comments as a lighting designer.

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Kawasaki City Urban Cityscape Council

Reiko Chikada attended Kawasaki City Urban Cityscape Council as a member. She visited the Ooyama Road and participated in deliberation on the cityscape policy and rules.

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"Look, Stare, and Determine the Light."

Reiko Chikada attended "The Twentieth Meeting" as a guest speaker and gave a lecture, "Look, Stare, and Determine the Light."

The Twentieth Meeting is a workshop for young people pursuing career as designers and architects. At the dinner time after the lecture, Reiko Chikada enjoyed discussion with the participants. The food was served on beautiful ceramic plates made by Ryosuke Yamamoto, the organizer of the meeting.

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MK Kita Horie Project

Kita Horie, a commercial, business, and residential complex along Yotsubashi Street in the center of Osaka City, has been completed. (Architect: AXS Satow Inc.)

Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. designed its architectual lighting. The glass railings of the balconies on the corners are illuminated with LEDs, which make the building eye-catching from the street. And in the ground-floor store space facing the express highway, a large luminous wall produces a cheerful atmosphere.

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Chiba City Outdoor Advertising Council

Reiko Chikada attended Chiba City Outdoor Advertising Council as a member.

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Chiba City Urban Scenery Council

Reiko Chikada attended Chiba City Urban Scenery Council as a member.

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Cherry Blossom Illumination at Hamarikyu Onshi Teien (Garden) In 2009 Hamarikyu Cherry Blossom Illumination

photo: Kazuhiko SHIBUTA	photo: Yoshiharu URUSHIZAKO

Cherry Blossom Illumination at Hamarikyu Onshi Teien (Garden) In 2009 Hamarikyu Cherry Blossom Illumination, we planned "Carry Japanese Lantern, Enjoy Night Cherry Blossom Viewing." Visitors can purchase hand-made Japanese lanterns with LEDs and walk in the night garden. The visitors become moving illuminations and the small wavering lights fill the garden.
The lanterns that could also be used as bedside lights were very popular.

(Organizer: Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association Cooperative Firms and Artist: Tokyo Butai Showmei Co., Ltd.; kazue Kuyama; Martin Professional Japan Ltd.; Iwasaki Electric Co., Ltd.; Yamagiwa Corporation. )

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The Kawasaki City Urban Cityscape Council

Lighting Designer Reiko Chiakda participated in the Kawasaki City Urban Cityscape Council as a member.

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The Saitama Cityscape Council

Lighting Designer Reiko Chiakda participated in the Saitama Cityscape Council as a member.

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The interview of Reiko Chikada

lease check the interview of Reiko Chikada, "Lighting Design that Reach People's Heart", at Urban Renaissance Agency website:
http://www.ur-net.go.jp/urbandesign/interview8-2.html

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"□□ seen from ○○, The Landscape Photography of Gunma."

Reiko Chikada, the Advisor of city View in Gunma prefecture, participated the judging committee of the "□□ seen from ○○, The Landscape Photography of Gunma."

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A study tour in Beijing

Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. went on a study tour in Beijing from February 28 to March 3. There, we could experience first-hand the current transition of the city with fierce frenzy of redevelopment.

The dynamic volume of the National Stadium and the National Swimming center, the unique form of the CCTV Headquarters which is called "pants" by the local tour guides, and the domed National Center for the Performing Arts called "EGG" were absolutely the new landmarks of the city.

Our concerns about the harmonization of the new architectures with the historical city were gone as soon as we saw the buildings for ourselves. Beijing is as large as Shikoku of Japan and the center area itself is very large. All the new architectures completed by the Olympic Game fit in the city with other high-rise buildings built before 2008.

The local guide told us that, rather, he feels that "Hutong", the traditional Chinese are, doesn't fit to the current city. The government owns the lands of this historical area, but the proprietary rights of the traditional Chinese-stye residences called "siheyuan" belong to the residents, and those values are increasing.

The siheyuan seems humble at a glance, but they are owned by the rich. Now, the city authorities are working on the conservation of the historical residences and streetscape.

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"2009 Hamarikyu Cherry Blossoms Illumination" project

"2009 Hamarikyu Cherry Blossoms Illumination" project by Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. has started.
The illumination schedule will be announced soon with the flower forecast.Two different types of cherry blossoms will be illuminated: Someiyoshino in early April and Yaesakura in mid-April, for 5 days respectively.
This year's illumination concept is "Akari Flower Way."
Please don't miss the beautiful Hamarikyu Illumination.

Someiyoshino : from April 1 to April 5
Yaesakura : from April 15 to April 19

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The awarding ceremony of The 6th Urban Landscape

Reiko Chikada attended the awarding ceremony of The 6th Urban Landscape
Award of Ota City. As the chairperson of the selection committee, she explained
the judgment process and provided comprehensive commentaries on the awarded projects.
For the Residential Division, the Grand Prize was given to "OS (Architect: Makoto Watanabe + Yoko Kinoshita, ADH Architects)," and the Award of Excellence was given to "Tsubaki Mori Court (Architect: Masaki Tokui Architect Institute)."
There was no project applicable to the Grand Prize of the General Division.

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The Chinzan-so and Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so

The garden illumination "Symphony of Lights" at the Chinzan-so and Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so, designed by Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc., has changed to the winter version.

The guests enjoy the dynamic illumination every day from inside the hotel and in the garden. When one see the symphony of lights and music played in the large garden, the five senses to feel the light, the music, the color, the nature, and the scent forgotten in daily life are evoked and one realize that we're connected to the nature.

We accomplished to halve the CO2 emission compared to the previous garden illumination by using the LEDs and efficient metal halide lamps in this 66,000?-large, 130 year-old traditional Japanese-style garden.

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A happy new year.

Two green budgerigars came to my house on the New Year's day.
Brown-eared Bulbul and Japanese White-eye come over everyday for the persimmons in our garden.
I enjoy the bird sanctuary in Sugamo, Toshima-ku, Tokyo.

Reiko Chikada