The Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge Dispensing Pharmacy by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a winner of the 2017 Platinum A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
The Cutting Edge is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs.
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The cutting Edge is a dispensing pharmacy related to the neighboring Daiichi General Hospital in Himeji City, Japan. In this type of pharmacies the client doesn’t have direct access to the products as in the retail type; rather his medicines will be prepared in the backyard by a pharmacist after presenting a medical prescription. This new building was designed to promote the image of the hospital by introducing a High-tech sharp image in accordance with an advanced medical technology. It results in a white minimalistic but fully functional space.
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The Cutting Edge by Tetsuya Matsumoto
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Dispensing Pharmacy
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2017.
Platinum Winner
The Cutting Edge Dispensing Pharmacy
The Cutting Edge is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Cutting Edge exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. The Cutting Edge is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
Winner Designer
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards and became a jury member for several prestigious prizes.
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Eri Matsuura Himeji Daiichi Hospital
Himeji Daiichi Hospital is one of the major Hospitals in Himeji city, Japan. Since its establishment 40 years ago the hospital have been providing services related to surgery, internal medicine, orthopedics, rehabilitation, artificial dialysis, emergency services and chronic diseases. The hospital has a capacity of 100beds and does cooperate with other local facilities, among them Matsuura Hospital and the Hikarigaoka Health Center for the Elderly.
Winner Brand
KTX archiLAB by MATSUYA ART WORKS.Co.Ltd.
Design your solution. architecture design, interior design, landscape design
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