Noriaki Okabe

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.

In 1988, Okabe, then the representative of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Japan, won the international competition of Kansai International Airport Terminal Building and was responsible for the design and construction supervision. While not currently on display, the Museum of Modern Art holds a model of the building's main structural truss in its Architecture and Design department.[1]

After the construction of the Terminal Building, he established Noriaki Okabe Architecture Network in 1995 in Tokyo.[2] While Okabe's practice has since expanded beyond architecture into industrial design, including the Odakyu 50000 series VSE train. In 2009 he collaborated with Belgian architect Jean-Michel Jaspers in designing the Belgian Embassy in Tokyo.[3]

Notable projects
  • An Odakyu 50000 series train
  • An Odakyu 60000 series train
  • A Hakone Tozan Railway 3000 series train
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References
  1. MoMA
  2. "Noriaki Okabe". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  3. Flanders Today
  4. 箱根登山電車 新型車両デザイン決定！ [Design of new Hakone Tozan Railway trains finalized] (pdf). News Release (in Japanese). Japan: Odakyu Electric Railway. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  5. 「特急ロマンスカー・EXE（３００００形）」をリニューアル ～ＥＸＥは、「EXEα」へ進化します～ [EXE 30000 series Romancecar to be refurbished - becoming "EXEα"] (pdf). News Release (in Japanese). Japan: Odakyu Electric Railway. 20 October 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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