Ken Corporation — Minato: marble, a bouquet, and a company that sells to the world

Concept

An entrance built for the client, not the staff

The company is a specialist in the high-end property market, and it says so with the first three metres. The entrance has a marble floor and a bouquet, and it is where clients working at the top of their fields in Japan and abroad are met.

Behind that, the offices are ordinary in the best sense: a work area that has to suit both agents who spend the day out at viewings and a back office that does not, and a set of rooms for the negotiations that follow.

01 · Work area

Two very different working days

The work area has to hold people whose meetings all happen somewhere else and people whose work never leaves the desk. The company describes it plainly as accepting many working styles at once.

02 · Desks

The day-to-day floor

The floor is laid out for a business that runs on phone calls, paperwork and property records between viewings.

03 · Meeting rooms

Tenants, owners, developers, partners

Meeting and negotiation rooms are spread across several offices in Tokyo and Yokohama. Tenants, property owners, developers and partner companies all come through them.