G Messe Gunma

The G7 Digital Technology Ministers’ Meeting will be held at G Message Gunma, where our company is responsible for the design. This meeting is scheduled to be held from May 19 to 21, 2023, as one of the related ministerial meetings for the G7 Hiroshima Summit. The “Ministerial Meeting” will be held in 14 cities across the country, including Takasaki City, as a forum for discussions on international issues in various fields held concurrently with the Summit.

G-Messe Gunma, along with the already completed Takasaki Art Theater and Takasaki Arena, has driven the development of the area around Takasaki Station and is positioned as an important facility that spearheads the city strategy of Gunma Prefecture. The site is the former site of a horse racing track; as a huge park within the city, it has been used by local residents. We have surrounded the facility with a park and green space that retains the memory of the racetrack, and plan it as a park convention where local residents can stroll even outside of event times.
By overlaying the historical context of Takasaki, which has long been a transportation hub, with its characteristics as a convention facility where people, goods, and information gather, we have created a facility structure where the exhibition building, conference building, and two concourses—the east-west axis and the north-south axis—intersect and overlap. The east-west axis concourse forms an impressive space that extends over 180 meters in length. Furthermore, as a convention facility located near the capital city, we planned to utilize the tourism resources of Gunma Prefecture as a venue for after-convention activities by incorporating motifs such as history, industry, and local culture into various indoor and outdoor spaces and landscapes, and to plan the facility not only as a convention facility but also as a comprehensive exhibition hall to promote Gunma Prefecture both domestically and internationally.