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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"