Noriaki Okabe

He was born in Shizuoka, Japan. He had worked with Renzo Piano for twenty years in Europe, from the designing construction supervision of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Okabe, then the representative of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Japan, won the international competition of Kansai International Airport Terminal Building in 1988 and was responsible for the design and construction supervision.

After the construction of the Terminal Building, he established Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network in 1995 in Tokyo. Now, he has been expanding the design activity from architecture to industrial design, such as train, Odakyu Romance Car series 50000 VSE (Odakyu Odawara Line).

Main projects

• Kansai International Airport Terminal Building, Renzo Piano Building Workshop Japan, Osaka
• Ushibuka Haiya Bridge, Renzo Piano Building Workshop Japan, Nagasaki, Japan
• Housing in Sakura-shinmachi, Tokyo, Japan
• Valeo Unisia Transmissions Atugi (factory), Kanagawa, Japan
• Odakyu Electric Railway New Express "series Romance car VSE", Tokyo, Japan
• Odakyu Electric Railway New Express "series Romance car MSE", Tokyo, Japan

External links

• Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network, official site