Profile
- Company name:
- Institute of Cultural Environments
- Location of headquarters:
- 2-3-4 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 135-0091, Japan
- Capital:
- 30 million yen
- Founded:
- March 16, 1995
- Directors:
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Representative Director: Hirohiko Miyatake; Director: Nobuhiro Takahashi; Director: Masatoshi Ooe;
Auditor: Orikasa Tomokazu
- Telephone and fax numbers:
- TEL: 03-5962-1753 (main number); FAX: 03-3570-2375
History
- February 1992
- Established as part of Nomura Co., Ltd.
- April 1992
- First Cultural Environment Research Meeting held
- October 1992
- First Research Proceedings, Cultural Environment Research Report Vol.1, published
- March 1995
- Company incorporated
- July 1995
- Inaugural issue of institutional journal Cultivate published
- April 1997
- 1st-class architectural office registration attained
- March 1999
- Assumed the secretariat of the Japan Museum Management Academy
Business outline
The Institute's areas of operations, which include the following, cover a variety of styles.
Planning and conducting of surveys and research concerning urban development that utilizes area cultural properties, and related workshops
Consultation, planning, and design for exhibition facility structures such as museums
Providing of study kits and display planning and production for environmental education and museums, and preparation of programs utilizing these
Constructing area cultural databases, and planning and preparing contents utilizing information gathered
The Institute of Cultural Environments is a think tank that specializes in providing support for urban development and the creation of venues for activities centered on citizens, by utilizing area cultural properties.
- Surveys, general planning, basic planning, design, and design management for cultural facilities such as museums
- Surveys, general planning, basic planning, design, and design management for leisure facilities such as venues for functions intended to create corporate images
- Proposal of business plans and design in connection with the effective utilization of land and buildings
- Surveys, planning, and design for landscaping, gardening, and the like
- Provision of consulting services and know-how in connection with each of the above items
- Provision of information-processing services and issuing of related books and publications
- Education-related business, such as holding lectures and training sessions
- Planning, operation, and production of various types of events
- Information gathering, data gathering, planning, and sales in connection with public relations and sales promotion
- Planning, production, and publication of visual software such as films and television programs
- Businesses related to the operation, maintenance, and management of cultural facilities such as museums
- Planning, design, production, sales, export, and import of products sold in museum shops
