Daisuke Matsuura
1-122 Fourth Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 2L4 T/F; (613) 236-4507
Competition ExperienceDistinctive Exterior Identity, Laurentian Bank -2005, Canada
Given the precarious financial context of shifting spending habits, the request to save money from the banking community is quite challenging and radical to expect from the client. We have developed an exterior design for Laurentian Bank to convey this radical message to save under this precarious context, while aiming to preserve traditional ideas that will enable stability for the future
L.A. Hub International Design Exhibition -2003, U.S.A.
The design team submitted two different proposals. Daisuke and Kurt Handlbauer concentrated on the symbolic meaning and purpose of the city center. Their designs are identified the interchangeable use and substitution of Black and White as a key conceptual construct. Both designs were submitted in the competition.
Future Vision of “Leisure” Concept Competition -2002, Austria
Daisuke in partnership with Kurt Handlbauer and Sheida, joined to test the limit and understanding of leisure in contemporary life. The key concept was to change the daily activities and the daily activity spaces into Leisure itself. Since these activities and spaces are often strict, tight and busy, leisure can be threaded as fragments of time and space to open other aspects of life.
Field Pachinko International Competition -2002, Japan
The design team focused on the intersection between community life and personal pleasure within the city-scape. The personal excitement of pachinko is transformed into mass actions which are readily available through a large wide screen that covers one side of a building ｚseen many miles away.
BackgroundISG Asia (Japan) Limited, Project Manager – Tokyo, Japan
Hilton Tokyo Bay Hotel, Chiba, Japan
100 room renovation project including high-ended resort guest room -7 room types. Daisuke managed the whole process of the design, the procurement, the construction and the client correspondence.
Lehman Brothers, Tokyo HQ Relocation, Tokyo, Japan
Interior fit-out of 14,000 m2 high-ended corporate office space to provide executive offices, private banking and a banking customer area as well as private data center.
SL+A Japan Incorporated, Architect – Tokyo, Japan
White & Case law office, Tokyo office expansion project,
Panache Corporation, expansion project, Tokyo,
Pihana Pacific HTD-1 data center project, Tokyo
GMH Architects, Intern Architect- Edmonton, Canada
Toyota dealer show room - Edmonton, Canada
Residential projects - Edmonton, Calgary, Yellowknife
EducationNihon University, Tokyo, Japan Science and Engineering, Architecture, B.Arch.