The construction site outside the train station in one of Tokyo’s central night life and shopping districts had the typical workers in hard hats and fluorescent vests. And, not so typical, two pink-and-white Hello Kitty figures hanging off the barriers that keep pedestrians from stumbling into a hole in the road. Such figures, along with […]

The building has a “very large” heating load, in that the vehicle bay has to maintain high indoor temperatures for the ambulances while continuously ventilating the space. KMA had a choice in terms of whether to design a conventional building with a conventional building envelope and standard heating system or to design an “energy-forward building” […]