Tomoyuki Iekami

Tomoyuki Iekami
Born	21 December 1956 Nakazara, Dayashina
Alma mater	University of Daishi
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Iekami Daihon Architecture and Design
Buildings	TBA TBA TBA New Era Trade Center Myoga Holdings Complex Coatl Tower

Tomoyuki Iekami is a Dayashinese architect and interior design visionary. He is known for desigining many of the world's tallest skyscrapers, mostly in Dayashina and Shijuku, specialising in 500-650m buildings. These include XXX. He also served as the senior architect and design lead in several other projects across the world, including the New Era Trade Center in Hanhae. Currently, he is serving as a senior architect and design lead in the development of Myoga Holdings Complex in Shijuku, as well as Coatl Tower in Macchia. Iekami is famed for his implementation of grand-scale neofuturism into his architecture and interior design, alongside "post-modern" interpretations of traditional Dayashinese architectural elements and interior design styles.

Early life and education

Tomoyuki Iekami was born in Nakazara, Dayashina in 1956 to an upper middle-class family. Iekami would grow up between Kitaizumi in Shijuku and Nakazara due to his father's position in a then-prominent petrol company. He would eventually attend the University of Daishi, passing through what is considered one of the top architecture programmes in Dayashina. After his tenure at the University of Daishi finished in 1978, Iekami would take a 2 year hiatus from education and employment in order to explore global landmarks and gain sources of inspiration for his architectural ambition.

Career

In 1980, Iekami found employment at a prominent Themiclesian architectural company, Creative Union & Sons Co. The company, along with Pastuk & Sons Co, was one of two Themiclesian architectural companies that were working on constructing and completing the 508 meter tall Kien-k'ang Financial Centre, which was, up to that point, the tallest and most expensive architectural project undergone in human history. There, Iekami would start employment as an understudy to highly experienced architects in the field, eventually moving up to establish himself as a structure and design consultant working on the Kien-k'ang megaproject by 1984. The next 8 years of his working life would be entirely focused on the completion of the financial center, being one of only two Dayashinese architects authorised to work on the project. In this time period, Iekami would gain valauble technical experience and aesthetic inspiration for his own ambitions for skyscraper megaprojects. In 1994, upon celebrating the completion of the financial center, Iekami would announce his departure from Creative Union & Sons Co, with intentions to start his own architectural firm.

Iekami founded his practice, Iekami Daihon Architecture and Design later that year, quickly gaining the attention of prominent Dayashinese investors thanks to his association with Creative Union & Sons Co and their involvement in the construction of the Kien-k'ang Financial Center. The skyscraper had been erected during a time of relative economic prosperity for Dayashina, with emerging attitudes of high positivity and national pride following victory in Kouraki and steady detente with Menghe. The Prime Minister of the time, Otoya Endo, had congratulated Themiclesia on their unprecedented architectural achievement, and had expressed interest in undertaking similar projects within Dayashina. Some of Dayashina's largest companies would be in contact with Iekami Daihon, competing for a bid to build Dayashina's first megaproject. Dayacom would win the first bid with a multi-billion Septentrion Standard Dollar investment, quickly followed by Maya Financial Servies.

Projects and recognition

Tomoyuki Iekami has served as the senior architect under his company, Iekami Daihon, for many the top 25 tallest buildings in Septentrion. Furthermore, he has provided consultation for several other megaprojects in Dayashina, the largest being the Grand Koizumi Resort and Convention Center in Takena. He has been presented with over 120 awards for architecture and design.

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  TBA, Dayashina, TBAm

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  TBA, Shijuku, TBAm

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  TBA, Dayashina, TBAm

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  New Era Trade Center in Cheonjin, Hanhae, 515m

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  Grand Koizumi Resort and Convention Center in Takena, Dayashina, 512m

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  A view of Coatl Tower in Macchia from the 5 star restaurant 2/3rds up, 601m

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  Myoga Holdings Complex in Kitaizumi, Shijuku, 500m

Interior design and influence

Tomoyuki Iekami complements his neo-futuristic approach to exterior design with an equally neo-futuristic approach to interior design and aesthetics. Iekami cites his friend, the artist Takefusa Miyamoto as his primary influence on interior design, drawing from his walk-through exhibitions and photorealistic digital renders of living spaces. Iekami's brand of interior design focuses heavily on the importance of lighting in the presentation of a space, with a particular emphasis on soft ambient overhead lighting, contrasted by hard complements in eye-level spaces using modern LED strips. He favours externally compact, yet internally spacious layouts, achieving this through general adherence to minimalistic design and concentrating functional elements on or near walls. Iekami will often combine these aspects with traditional elements of Dayashinese interior design tenets, blending the new and old together seamlessly with the integration of electronics.

He is noted as one of the most influential people on interior design principles in Dayashina, with tens of millions of individuals and many companies finding his "applied Miyamoto-style aesthetic" to be desirable and favourable to the eye. The company Iekami Daihon has worked with some of Dayashina's most prevalent tech companies, such as Dayacom, Ibaraki, and Hoko, to create integrated smart-home and smart-living technologies that adhere to his design influences.

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  A Grand Koizumi Resort lobby

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  A residential suite designed by Iekami Daihon

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  A public swimming pool designed by Iekami Daihon

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  Himeji, a restaurant on the top floor of TBA, Shijuku