Raika Headquarters (ライカ本社ビル)
Sakishima, Suminoe-ku, Osaka
Sources checked October 2026
- Year
- 1989
- Architect
- Tadao Ando
- Type
- Corporate headquarters (offices)
- Access
- Gone: closed in 2004, demolished from August 2012
Headquarters of the clothing maker Raika, designed by Tadao Ando and completed in December 1989 on the artificial island of Sakishima, in Osaka. The debt taken on to build it weighed, together with falling sales, in the civil rehabilitation proceedings opened in 2004. Closed from that year on, it was demolished from August 2012.
History
Raika (ライカ), a clothing company founded in Osaka in 1957, had its headquarters built to Tadao Ando's designs; the building was completed in December 1989 on the artificial island of Sakishima (咲洲), in Suminoe Ward. In 2004, after falling sales and the heavy debt taken on to build this headquarters, the company entered civil rehabilitation proceedings.
The building stayed closed from 2004. Demolition began in August 2012.
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The building no longer exists.
Sakishima, Suminoe-ku, Osaka
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