Noriaki Okabe
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Noriaki Okabe (岡部 憲明, Okabe Noriaki, born December 9, 1947) is a Japanese architect.
He was born in Shizuoka, Japan. He 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 the Odakyu 50000 series VSE train.
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 50000 series VSE train
- Odakyu 60000 series MSE train
- Belgian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan (collaboration Belgian landscape architect Aldrik Heirman)