Nagasaki Prefectural Government Office

This low-rise government building forms the backdrop of an expansive waterfront site. The design incorporates spacious areas both indoors and outdoors to accommodate a wide variety of activities. Outdoors, a large open space is composed in synergy with the adjacent disaster-prevention lawn and the rooftops of adjoining government buildings, while inside, internal circulation routes intersect within a large internal atrium space. The subtle relationship between these internal and external spaces and the visualization of circulation and interchange between the diverse users of the facility creates a welcoming“ City Hall.”