Sreed Ebisu T Office Building

A slender white office tower stands at the center of this architectural photograph, rising prominently against a clear blue sky within a dense urban streetscape. The building format is vertical, approximately ten stories tall, photographed from street level looking upward at a slight angle. Beginning at ground level, the tower emerges from a street lined with parked vehicles and bare-branched winter trees, their dark silhouettes providing organic contrast to the geometric architecture. The building's base appears to contain retail or commercial space with large glass openings, while pedestrians walk along the sidewalk, their small scale emphasizing the tower's height. Moving upward, each floor features a projecting balcony enclosed by transparent glass panels and vertical metal railings that catch the light, creating a rhythmic stacking pattern reminiscent of carefully arranged white paper cards. The most striking feature winds along the left edge of the facade: a sculptural spiral staircase rendered in the same pure white as the building, its curves flowing like a ribbon or unfurling fern frond from street level to upper floors, providing both visual interest and circulation. The white of the building suggests fresh snow or clean linen, cool and crisp in temperature, contrasting with the warmer taupes and browns of neighboring structures that frame it on both sides. The sky beyond reads as a deep cerulean, the color of a clear winter afternoon, providing cool backdrop that emphasizes the building's luminous quality. Sunlight arrives from the upper left, warm and gentle, casting soft shadows beneath each balcony that model the three-dimensional projection of these elements. The overall atmosphere suggests a calm, clear day with still air, the kind of crystalline winter light that renders architectural forms with particular clarity.

This project is a nine story office building in central Tokyo that aims to create a new prototype for urban timber architecture. The proposal was a hybrid structure of a steel post and beam frame and timber seismic frames inserted into it. This timber frame, named seismic timber lattice shell, is not only a structural but also an interior element to realize new workspaces where people can work in a more relaxed mode, enjoying the spatial value of the timber construction.