Pokémon

BUSINESS MEETS PLAY.

This new 2-floor Pokémon space houses Pokémon’s Product Marketing and Licensing Departments. This project encompassed both the business side of Pokémon and the playful consumer side. We created a pristine gallery environment to showcase Pokémon’s work. This gallery is centered around a communicating stair which brings the company together with cafes, kitchens, conference areas. This café is located directly adjacent to the communicating stair under the exposed structure providing a large open dining environment along with intimate seating defined by the large metal-clad pylons. A series of vistas and transparencies can be experienced from the secure lobby. Transparency in glass risers in the stairs allow visitors to see far into the distance. Glass angles evoke movement and the geometric flavor of the animations. Atop the circulating stair, we designed a large sculpture which is an extrusion of the Pokéball, a reoccurring theme in Pokémon animations.