Sumitomo Pavilion Architecture Announcement

Hello from the Sumitomo Pavilion!

This time, we have finally unveiled Sumitomo Pavilion Architecture.

More than 1000 “Trees of the Sumitomo Forest” Featured on Roof and Facade

Trees were planted by our predecessors in the “Sumitomo Forest” owned by the Sumitomo Group. The “Sumitomo Pavilion” will create a place that provides the warmth and comfort of trees based on our desire to “respect the life of each tree without waste” and using them as wood resource in its entirety.

Trees planted at the 1970 Osaka EXPO also “transcend time in a full circle, returning as the Sumitomo Pavilion.”

Inspired by the “peaks of the Besshi mountains” in Shikoku, which is the foundation of Sumitomo’s growth, the roof and façade features a silhouette of its mountaintops, created by plywood made from “Japanese Cypress of the Sumitomo Forest.”

The facade near the building’s entrance features “Japanese Ceder from the Sumitomo Forest” planted in 1970, the year of the Osaka EXPO. The trees, layered over one another, expresses the “rings of trees and geological layers of the land.”

Toward a future from the forest.

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