EURASIAN PRIZE
JURY
Tetsuya Matsumoto /
KTX ARCHILAB
Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archived 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 including INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, the Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, Iconic Awards, Spark Awards, A’ Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Awards, K-Design Awards, APIDA Awards, Design for Asia Awards, American Architecture Prize, and German Design Awards just to name a few. Since 2017, Tetsuya became a jury member for A’ Design Awards, K-Design awards, Asia Design Prize, UNI’s Di-Generic cities Tokyo, C-IDEA Design Award, Azerbaijan Design Award, Sky Design Awards, and the World Architecture Festival. As the founders of the studio KTX archiLAB say: “Commercial building design should not be a process for producing only a beautiful box. This is the idea of us KTX. And creating a building that produces a greater benefit, a business tool for reducing the benefits commensurate with the investment we are designing. Interior space design from architectural design, up to the graphics, all the design and consistently produces a strong added value to your business by control.”
THE CUTTING EDGE PHARMACY HIMEJI CITY, JAPAN 2016
The Cutting Edge is a dispensing pharmacy located nearby Himeji Daiichi general hospital in Japan. The façade is totally glazed and contoured by protracted sharp edges. The minimalist white interior is demarcated by a black cross. This minimalistic space designed in clean straight lines creates the High-Tech sharp image that the patient expects from advanced medical care.
Photo Credit: ©Stirling Elmendorf
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