News Release
GRAND GREEN OSAKA’s JAM BASE Receives Highest Award of GOLD at iF DESIGN AWARD 2026
Apr 28, 2026
TOKYO, Japan – April 28, 2026 – ORIX Real Estate Corporation (“ORIX Real Estate”) announced that JAM BASE*1—the innovation hub of GRAND GREEN OSAKA, which ORIX Real Estate is involved as a developer—has received the iF DESIGN AWARD GOLD, the highest-level award in iF DESIGN AWARD 2026 organized by iF International Forum Design GmbH. The award ceremony was held on April 27, 2026.
(left: Misaki Morimoto, Umekita Development Promotion Office, ORIX Real Estate; center: Eri Ashida, Vice President of Umekita Development Promotion Office, ORIX Real Estate; right: Ryota Kawatsu, Senior Manager of Leasing Division, Osaka IR Development Promotion Department, ORIX Corporation)
Organized by German-based iF International Forum Design GmbH since 1953, the iF DESIGN AWARD is an international design award with a long history and ranks as one of the world’s top three prestigious design competitions. Every year, projects—such as excellent industrial designs and architecture—meeting strict judging criteria are recognized.
JAM BASE, which received the highest-level iF DESIGN AWARD GOLD, is a next-generation co-creation and innovation hub within GRAND GREEN OSAKA, which is located on the northern side of JR Osaka Station and for which ORIX Real Estate is involved as a developer. As a place for creating new ideas and real-world implementation through bringing together companies, universities and research institutions, startups, and venture capital firms, the hub provides offices, coworking spaces, networking spaces and other such areas. Under this award, JAM BASE was highly evaluated not just for its offices and coworking spaces, but also its architectural creativity and its function as a catalyst fostering creativity and business creation.
Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda*2 within GRAND GREEN OSAKA as well as Relation Wall*3—developed by ORIX Group company DAIKYO INCORPORATED—also received the iF DESIGN AWARD.
ORIX Group will continue to closely follow social issues and customers’ requirements and advance real-estate development and operation that offers new value to lifestyles.
*1 A new base where “Midori (greenery)” and people interact to create innovation launched in front of Osaka Station (September 28, 2023)
*2 ORIX Hotel Management and Hilton Open Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda Today, September 6, 2024 (September 6, 2024)
*3 Relation Wall jointly developed with Yuko Nagayama to take on the challenge of strengthening family bonds by freeing homes from fixed layouts (October 31, 2025)
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1. About the iF DESIGN AWARD
Organized by German-based iF International Forum Design GmbH since 1953, the iF DESIGN AWARD is an international design award with a long history. Ranking as one of the world’s top three prestigious design competitions, projects and products—such as excellent industrial designs and architecture—meeting strict judging criteria are recognized with proofs of their designs.
For iF DESIGN AWARD 2026, 129 experts carried out strict judging to select award recipients from more than 10,000 entries from 68 countries and regions in nine disciplines, including product design and interior architecture. The prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD GOLD was given to only 75 entries.
■Comment from Kazuhiro Sasaki, Deputy Head of Real Estate Investment and Development Headquarters, ORIX Real Estate regarding receiving the iF DESIGN AWARD GOLD
Receiving this award is an international recognition of the concept of “a place to work” in urban areas that JAM BASE—for which ORIX Real Estate is a developer and has been involved since the conceptual stage—has sought while challenging change. This facility has spatial features that support innovation, with a design that gives birth to random encounters and an environment that brings together diverse players.
We will use this environment to support tenants so that their challenges are linked to co-creation, new businesses, and real-world implementation. Through this initiative, we will contribute to the further development of the Kansai economy by creating impact that opens up the future.
2. About JAM BASE
JAM BASE, the innovation hub of GRAND GREEN OSAKA, helps in the real-world implementation and commercialization of new value by bringing together diverse people. Since opening in September 2024, more than 400 organizations and over 1,800 individuals (as of April 1, 2026), including startups and venture firms, large corporations, financial institutions and venture capital firms, government agencies, and universities, have participated, making it a place where diverse players go about their daily activities and give birth to co-creation.
As a hub that supports the creation of new businesses and the taking on of social issues, the facility uses Osaka’s Umeda location as an international city and its integrated environment with UMEKITA PARK to provide a place for startups and projects to move to the next stage. To co-create a better society of the future, JAM BASE aims to serve as a starting point for various projects, companies, and human resources to launch themselves onto the global stage.
At iF DESIGN AWARD 2026, in the category of corporate interiors under the discipline of interior architecture, the facility was highly evaluated for its architecture and spatial design that transforms high-density urban space into an innovation hub giving birth to random encounters and co-creation. In particular, JAM BASE was highly evaluated for not simply being an office and coworking space but also having its architecture itself function as a catalyst that fosters creativity and business creation. Guided by three principles—Midori (nature), Yohaku (unfinished-ness), and Gocha-Gocha (Osaka’s jumbled-ness)—it will continue to evolve together with people as a living collective where activities overlap and connections form organically.
3. About Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda
Canopy by Hilton Osaka Umeda is located on the 1st floor and from the 10th to the 25th floors of the North Tower of GRAND GREEN OSAKA. Located approximately a 7-minute walk from JR Osaka Station and in the central business district of Umeda, it offers excellent access to popular tourist destinations such as Dotonbori and Namba.
At iF DESIGN AWARD 2026, its design was evaluated in the category of hospitality interiors under the discipline of interior architecture for going beyond simply expressing Osaka’s uniqueness, showcasing humor and the local energy in a modern manner and fusing the global brand “Canopy by Hilton” with Osaka’s culture and distinctive locality.
4. About Relation Wall
Developed by DAIKYO, Relation Wall is a movable wall that moves freely along ceiling rails to partition and connect spaces, allowing room layouts to be flexibly modified according to changes in lifestyles. It offers a new option of breaking free from fixed layouts based on the LDK (Living, Dining, Kitchen) model to allow homes to be used with greater freedom, adapting to diversifying family compositions and lifestyles.
It was developed together with the rebranding into THE LIONS*4 announced in April 2023 and positioned as a solution that enhances the value of homes, working toward implementation in 2030.
At iF DESIGN AWARD 2026, the uniqueness of its design was evaluated in the category of interior architecture concepts. In particular, it was highly evaluated for its concept of designing relationships in homes that goes beyond design and function to express a consistent concept.
*4 DAIKYO Rebrands Lions Mansion to THE LIONS after 55 Years since Launch (April 10, 2023)
5. Corporate Profiles
■ORIX Real Estate Corporation
| Address | 2-3-1 Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0013, Japan |
|---|---|
| Representative | Tatsuya Kitamura (Managing Executive Officer President, ORIX Real Estate Corporation) |
| Established | March 11, 1999 |
| Description of business | Real estate investment and development, real estate asset management, housing development, facility operation, and building and facility management |
| Website | https://www.orix-realestate.co.jp/en/ |
■DAIKYO INCORPORATED
| Address | 4-24-13 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-8506, Japan |
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| Representative | Nobuhisa Hosokawa (President, DAIKYO INCORPORATED) |
| Established | December 11,1964 |
| Description of business | Housing development and sales, and redevelopment |
| Website | https://www.daikyo.co.jp/ (in Japanese) |
Contact Information:
Investor Relations Department
ORIX Corporation
Tel: +81-3-3435-3121
About ORIX Group:
ORIX Group (ORIX Corporation TSE: 8591; NYSE: IX) was established in 1964 and has grown from its roots in leasing in Japan to become a global, diverse, and unique corporate group. Today, it is active around the world in financing and investment, life insurance, banking, asset management, real estate, concession, environment and energy, automobile-related services, industrial/ICT equipment, ships and aircraft. Since expanding outside of Japan in 1971, ORIX Group has grown its business globally and now operates in around 30 countries and regions across the world with approximately 36,000 people. ORIX Group unites globally around its Purpose: “Finding Paths. Making Impact.” combining diverse expertise and innovative thinking to help our world develop in a sustainable way.
For more details, please visit our website: https://www.orix.co.jp/grp/en/
(As of September 30, 2025)
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