Nikken Sekkei

Nikken Sekkei Ltd.
Private
Industry Architecture, Design
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1900 (1900))
Headquarters 2-18-3 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Number of employees
 2,406 (as of April 1, 2013)
Website Official website

Nikken Sekkei Ltd. (株式会社日建設計 Kabushiki-gaisha Nikken Sekkei) is a Japanese architecture firm headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

The company has its origins in a building design company founded in 1900 as part of Japan's Sumitomo conglomerate. Now a private corporation partly owned by its employees, Nikken Sekkei has completed more than 20,000 projects in some 40 countries.[1]

Among other notable projects, Nikken Sekkei was the primary architectural firm for the Tokyo Skytree, currently (2014) the tallest self-supporting tower in the world, and second tallest man made structure of any kind. It is also responsible for the redesign of Camp Nou,[2] the largest stadium in Europe.

References

  1. ↑ "Nikken Sekkei company information". Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "El nuevo Camp Nou lo hará el estudio japonés Nikken Sekkei" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 March 2016.
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