Salesforce Tokyo Ohana Floor: Hinoki Warmth Meets Sky-High Views Above
Salesforce Tokyo Ohana Floor anchors a 22‑story office tower in Tokyo, Japan, by Mark Cavagnero Associates. The project threads hospitality, work, and community-facing venues across column-free floors with sweeping views of the Imperial Palace and Gardens. Across multiple levels, the program balances high-performance meeting rooms and social hubs with a cultural centerpiece that reframes corporate life through a distinctly local lens.
A double-height glass wall pulls the gardens in. Light tracks across oak and stone as the lobby lines up on axis with the moat and skyline beyond.
This is an office tower tuned to daily life. The project in Tokyo by Mark Cavagnero Associates arranges hospitality, collaboration, and community rooms across contiguous, column-free floors, using program to prioritize daylight and views. The throughline is clear: organize where people gather, then free the perimeter for work, meetings, and pause.
Stage the Lobby
The ground level reads as a civic room. A generous glass façade frames the Imperial Gardens while a custom oak desk and planter benches ride beneath a warm backlit soffit, setting an easy cadence for arrival and orientation. A 16-by-16-foot LED wall, trimmed in the same oak, anchors the sightline from the door to the elevators.
Stack Social Programs
Level 9 centers the company’s internal life. A full barista bar, mailroom, IT services, open work areas, and private conference rooms cluster toward the core, keeping the perimeter open for uninterrupted views and daylight. Entry lands beside an expansive video wall with integrated A/V, so the floor shifts quickly from casual coffee to all‑hands broadcast without losing pace.
Shape the Innovation Center
Customer rooms on Level 21 line the exterior. Designed for daylong briefings, they bank natural light and horizon views while a transparent circular Customer Experience Center sits at the heart, ready to flex. Curved LED display, tuned architectural lighting, concealed equipment, operable drapes, and sliding glass walls toggle between intimate sessions and open learning.
House and Garden
The Ohana Floor crowns the tower as a hospitality venue. Here a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Japanese house sits within a native garden, linking company standards to local craft and the moats beyond. Hinoki cypress forms frames and encircling engawa, while moveable glass panels emulate shoji to reconfigure gatherings—from quiet meetings to stage-scale events—without surrendering clarity. Teak and slate-toned flooring differentiate gathering from circulation, and a gentle ramp over reflecting pools secures universal access for every guest.
Work the Floorplate
An offset core and column-free floorplate unlock a 17,680-square-foot interior. Primary programs sit inward to keep light and views continuous along the edges, strengthening focus zones while maintaining quick paths for service and support. Across levels, concealed audio-visual systems, precise lighting, and custom millwork maintain a consistent rhythm, while wellness and environmental goals culminate in platinum-level and healthy-building certifications.
At day’s end the garden reflects sky. Light softens across hinoki and glass as the city outside dims—and inside, rooms reset for the next gathering.
Photography by Forward Stroke
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