A Metal Company Converted their 100-Year Old Warehouse into a Collaborative Workspace www.spoon-tamago.com

all photos by yohei sasakura courtesy hamada designLocated in one of Japan’s industrial hubs of Osaka is Nakanishi Metal Works, a company that manufactures metal components like bearings that go into basically any machine that rotates.
The company is 95 years old and, given their industry and location, not exactly who you think of as a forerunner of modern, collaborative workspaces.
But stereotypes are made to be broken, and that’s exactly what this company did when they decided to convert their 100-year old wooden warehouse into a beautiful space where employees could come together and share ideas.
Nakanishi Metal Works employs roughly 3500 employees across multiple business lines that are typically physically siloed from one another in different but neighboring offices.
Meanwhile, the company also had a 100-year old disused wooden warehouse.