Takako Tajima

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    Takako Tajima (left) and Aziza Chaouni are Principals of Bureau EAST. Bureau EAST’s Fez river rehabilitation project won the 2008 Holcim Gold Award in Sustainable Construction and the 2009 EDRA best places award.

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    Takako Tajima, Principal, Bureau EAST, USA

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    Holcim Awards 2008 Africa Middle East – Marrakech, Morocco

    Winning team members Holcim Awards Gold 2008 (l-r): John Ferri, Takako Tajima, Aziza Chaouni, Dan Brunn

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    (l-r): Takako Tajima and Aziza Chaouni, Principals, Bureau E.A.S.T., Morocco/Canada/USA

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    Winners of the Global Holcim Awards Gold 2009 prize for project River remediation and urban development scheme, Fez, Morocco (l-r), Takako Tajima and Aziza Chaouni, co-founders, Bureau EAST, Morocco/Canada/USA.

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    Global Holcim Awards Gold 2009 prize handover

    Winners of the Global Holcim Awards Gold 2009 prize (l-r), Takako Tajima, urban planner and co-founder, and Aziza Chaouni, architect and co-founder, Bureau EAST, Morocco/Canada/USA congratulated by Markus Akermann, Chairman of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation and CEO of Holcim Ltd, Switzerland.

Takako Tajima is Principal of Bureau EAST. Bureau EAST’s Fez river rehabilitation project won the 2008 Holcim Gold Award in Sustainable Construction and the 2009 EDRA best places award. 

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Takako Tajima is Principal of Bureau EAST. Bureau EAST’s Fez river rehabilitation project won the 2008 Holcim Gold Award in Sustainable Construction and the 2009 EDRA best places award. 

Takako Tajima studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning from the GSD.

Her work in landscape architecture includes the landscape master plan for San Bernardino Valley College and a proposal for an ecotourism and agritourism resort outside Shanghai, China, which was awarded an ASLA Professional Honor Award. She has also worked for Reed Hilderbrand and Associates in Watertown Massachusetts, developing exhibition materials for a project in collaboration with Tadao Ando and for Davis + Gannon Architecture contributing to projects such as the Pittsburgh Glass Center which was awarded LEED Gold.

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Aziza Chaouni, - Aziza Chaouni Projects, Toronto, Canada Takako Tajima, - Bureau EAST, Los Angeles, CA, USA and 6 more authors.

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