Takaaki Kawano

After graduating from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Osaka Prefecture University in 1981, he joined a landscape architecture firm, and then joined Nikken Sekkei in 2006.
Soon after joining the company, he was involved in the on-site supervision of Tokyo Midtown.
His main designs include the Nara Prefectural Government Office Main Building Rooftop Greening Project (2008), the Kounso Relocation Project (2009), the Ritz-Carlton Kyoto (2014), the Nippon Life Insurance Company New East Building (2016), the Kochi City Hall Reconstruction Project (2020) and One Za'abeel (2023).

First-class landscape construction management engineer