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  • Mori Building and teamLab to launch “MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless” in Odaiba, Tokyo this summer

    Mori Building and teamLab to launch “MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless” in Odaiba, Tokyo this summer

    Mori Building, a leading urban developer in Tokyo, and the art collective teamLab today announced that they will jointly open “MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless,” a full-scale digital art museum in the Palette Town complex of Odaiba, Tokyo in the summer of 2018. The all-new museum concept is a collaborative initiative between Mori Building, a noted supporter of culture and art, and teamLab, an interdisciplinary creative group that utilizes the digital technologies to express art.

    The museum, teamLab’s first permanent exhibition and flagship facility in Tokyo, will boast a massive 10,000 square meters of labyrinthine floor space. The word “Borderless” expresses the museum’s aim to tear down the borders between “one art and another,” “art and visitors” and “oneself and others” by allowing visitors to melt into the art and become part of it. Mori Building and teamLab hope that their groundbreaking museum will inspire people to create enlightened new values and innovative new social frameworks.

    Mori Building actively works to integrate art in cities, including by staging important cultural activities. In the view of the company, cities vitally need culture and art to expand their magnetic power to attract creative people and enterprises from throughout the world.

    teamLab aims to explore a new relationship between humans and the world through art. The collective’s collaborative practice seeks to liberate art from physical constrictions and transcend boundaries in contemporary society, where the border between technologies and creativity is coming fuzzy.

    Through their collaboration, Mori Building and teamLab aim to create a unique destination that enhances the magnetic power of Tokyo toward 2020 and beyond.

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  • Ginza Six opening with 241 outlets

    Ginza Six opening with 241 outlets

    Ginza Six, one of the largest commercial complexes in Tokyo’s Ginza district, will open tomorrow.

    At Ginza’s 6-chome block, the retail venture was jointly developed at a cost of about ¥86 billion (US$12.4 billion) by companies including J. Front Retailing, which runs the Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department stores, and Mori Building.

    Ginza Six has about 47,000 sqm of sales space – larger than the neighbouring Ginza Mitsukoshi and Matsuya Ginza department stores. With its open ceiling structure, the complex has 241 retail outlets, mainly overseas luxury brands including Christian Dior and Fendi.

    French luxury house Saint Laurent will have its second flagship store for Tokyo across three floors at Ginza Six.

    Ginza Six inside

    Its 17m backlit black marble facade comprises 18 noren panels (traditional fabric dividers) laminated with low-reflective glass. The store will feature pret-a-porter, accessories, shoes, sunglasses and jewellery for women and men.

    Ginza Six’s owners are estimating it will draw 20 million customers and earn ¥60 billion in sales annually.

    It occupies the site that was home for 90 years to Matsuzakaya Ginza, as well as other stores. Rather than buying and selling goods like a department store, Ginza Six runs on the rent from the outlets. “The same business model used in the past can’t be applied forever,” says J. Front Retailing president Ryoichi Yamamoto.

    Other retail developments in the area also mainly house outlets, such as Tokyu Plaza Ginza and Marronnier Gate Ginza, a renovation of Printemps Ginza that opened in March.

    Ginza Six will attract foreign tourists as well as trigger consumption, says Mori Building president Shingo Tsuji. “This is one of the largest redevelopment projects in the history of Ginza. It will be a new symbol of Ginza.”

    Attractions at the development include a noh theatre and a rooftop garden.

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