Only In Japan: Tokyo Office Building Is Also A Farm?!

Posted by | September 27, 2013 | Architecture, Only In Japan | No Comments

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via Quartz. Instead of building a new headquarters from the ground up, Japanese recruiting company Pasona renovated a 50-year-old office building with a double-skin, green facade and rooftop garden and, most notably, urban farming facilities throughout the building. The building has a rice field in the lobby, a hydroponic tomato farming space surrounded by offices, pumpkin vines growing over one of the reception areas, and lemon and passion fruit trees forming partitions that divide the meeting rooms… pretty cool! Check out some more photos and an informational video below.

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An employee harvests vegetables grown under Hybrid Electrode Fluroescent Lamps inside of an office of Pasona Group in Tokyo

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