3 articles tagged “Heritage Preservation”
Opened October 2022 in Kudanshita, Chiyoda City. A 17-story, 74.97-meter office complex that retained the registered tangible cultural property façade of the original Kudan Kaikan (built 1934) while adding a contemporary glass tower behind it.
Completed in 2003 in Kannai, Yokohama, this 27-storey, 119-metre office tower wraps around and preserves the 1929 Dai-Ichi Bank Yokohama branch — a rare example of a heritage building fused into a modern high-rise, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki.
A 58-story mixed-use complex completed in 2020 on the former silk inspection site in Kitanaka-dori, Yokohama. Standing 199.95 meters tall, it combines 1,176 residential units with hotel and retail space while preserving a historic brick warehouse building at its base.