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ITOKI Headquarters "ITOKI DESIGN HOUSE" receives Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Agricultural Industry Bureau Director-General's Award as a pioneering example of indoor greening
Providing the "comfortable shade" of trees in the office: Indoor greening practices that support human capital management highly praised
ITOKI CORPORATION (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Koji Minato), which has long been committed to greening offices and proposing solutions for them, is pleased to announce that its head office working showroom, ITOKI DESIGN HOUSE, has won the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Agricultural Industry Bureau Director-General's Award at the Indoor Greening Contest 2025, sponsored by the Indoor Greening Promotion Council. The award was highly praised for creating an office space that harmonizes with the plants, appropriate planting management, and spatial design that contributes to human capital management.
"ITOKI DESIGN HOUSE", which reopened in November 2024, is a place to design tomorrow's WORK-Style, which is our company's mission statement. As part of realizing a comfortable environment, we have used our knowledge to create an office space that incorporates a lot of natural light and greenery. The plants were designed together with Green Display Co., Ltd. (Head office: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Zenta Mochizuki). Rather than being simply decorative, by combining them with furniture, they function as spatial elements that support the practice of ABW (Activity Based Working), gently dividing the space so that you can choose an environment according to your activity, encouraging you to switch between concentration and relaxation. In addition, the growth environment was carefully planned from the design stage, including acclimatizing the plants, arranging them according to the illuminance, and ensuring ventilation with a blower fan. As for operation, weekly maintenance is carried out to keep the plants in good condition.
Encouraged by this award, we will continue to strive to create office environments that are kind to both people and plants, and will use this knowledge in our proposals to customers.
[What is the Indoor Greening Contest?]
The Indoor Greening Contest is an awards program organized by the Indoor Greening Promotion Council with the aim of popularizing and improving the quality of greening in indoor spaces. It recognizes outstanding examples of greening in a variety of spaces, including public facilities, hospitals, offices, and commercial facilities, and widely introduces to society their contributions to creating healing and comfort in urban life and reducing the environmental burden.
About Itoki's Workplace Business
ITOKI CORPORATION was founded in 1890. With the mission statement of "We Design Tomorrow. We Design WORK-Style." the company supports the creation of a variety of "spaces," "environments," and "places" by leveraging its strengths of "Tech x Design based on PEOPLE," including the manufacture and sale of office furniture, office space design, “Space," “Environment," and “Place" consulting, and office data analysis services, as well as furniture for working from home and studying at home, and equipment for public facilities and logistics facilities.
As hybrid work becomes more common and the places and ways of working become more diverse, we are developing spatial digital transformation to enhance productivity and creativity, as well as consulting services to support optimal office operations. We are also proactively collaborating with external designers and partner companies to propose new work styles and workplaces for the future.
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