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2025/11

2025/11/21

Final Lighting Adjustments for Kanazawa Station Underground Water Feature and Kanazawa Station Front Sculptures

Final lighting adjustments were made for the Kanazawa Station Underground Water Feature and Kanazawa Station Front Sculptures, part of Kanazawa ......


2025/11/13

AACA Award 2025 Final Judging

Reiko Chikada participated as a judge in the final public judging session for the 35th AACA Award, hosted by the Japan Architectural Art and Cra......


2025/11/11

Japan International Association of Lighting Designers 11th Anniversary Celebration

The Japan International Association of Lighting Designers (IALDJ), Japan's first gathering of lighting designers, was established in August 2014......


2025/11/09

2025 Tokorozawa City Commendation Ceremony

Reiko Chikada received a Commendation for Meritorious Service from Tokorozawa City in recognition of her contributions to municipal administrati......


2025/11/01

2025 Kawagoe City Urban Landscape Symposium

Reiko Chikada was invited as a lecturer to the 2025 Kawagoe City Urban Landscape Symposium, where she gave a one-hour lecture titled “Let's Thin......


2025/10

2025/10/18

Participated in the National Town Development Conference 2025

The National Town Development Conference (abbreviated as Zenmachi) is an event celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. It aims to support to......


2025/09

2025/09/29

AACA Award 2025 (35th Edition) Preliminary Judging

The Architectural Art and Craft Association of Japan (AACA) is an organization where architects, artists, craftspeople, and designers collaborat......


2025/09/19

JUDI Conference National Convention 2025 in Niigata

Reiko Chikada participated starting on the 20th. On the 20th, after a guided walk around Niigata City's hanamachi district led by Aritomo Kubo, ......


2025/09/10

2025 Landscape Consultants Association Award: Design Category “Grand Prize” Winner

Reiko Chikada Lighting Design Inc. received the Grand Prize in the Design Category of the 2025 Landscape Consultants Association Awards for the ......


2025/07

2025/07/31

Factory Tour

Reiko Chikada participated in a lighting factory tour and training program organized by the Japan International Association of Lighting Designer......


2025/07/29

17th Tokorozawa City Landscape Advisory Board Meeting

Reiko Chikada attended the 17th Tokorozawa City Urban Landscape Advisory Board Meeting as a board member and deliberated on the revised version ......


2025/07/16

Article published in the Lighting Society of Japan Annual Report Zoom-Up Section

Reiko Chikada has written an article titled “The Current State of Spaces with Light” for the 109th volume of the Lighting Society of Japan Annua......


2025/07/04

Nighttime Landscape Lighting Completed at the Site of the Former West Outer Fortress (Kanazawa City)

The “Sōgamae” refers to the moats and earthen walls constructed during the early Edo period to defend Kanazawa Castle. Only a faint trace remain......


2025/07/03

Old House Revitalization Project

A project to renovate an old folk house where a family said to be descendants of the Heike clan once lived into a hotel, and a sake brewery into......


2025/06

2025/06/30

First Meeting of the Kawasaki City Urban Landscape Advisory Board

Chief Designer SachiTakanaga attended the first meeting of the Kawasaki City Urban Landscape Advisory Board for Fiscal Year 2025 as a board memb......


2025/06/17

Kanazawa City, Kakinokibatake area landscape lighting completed.

Reiko Chikada Design Office supervised the installation of lighting in the Kakinokibatake area, a nighttime landscape action program that gives ......


2025/06/11

2025 Japan-Korea Urban Design Experts Exchange Meeting

Reiko Chikada participated in the meeting as Vice Representative Director, which was jointly organized by the Plus Urban Design Association (PUD......


2025/05

2025/05/01

Encounter with Activity

At an old house built 150 years ago in Naraijuku, Nakasendo (Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture), I saw an unexpected smoke formation that took my......


2025/04

2025/04/20

Retro Atmosphere

I stopped in for coffee at this store at the top of a hill in Sunset Dan Dan (Arakawa-ku, Tokyo). A chandelier with dried flowers tied to it han......


2025/04/16

Osaka Expo Study Tour

Members of the Reiko Chikada Design Office gathered in front of the Japan Pavilion, toured the Qatar and Indonesia Pavilions, had lunch at a Ger......