ICI STUDIO W-ANNEX . Toride
Tsubame Architects . photos: © Kai Nakamura
Standing Shoulder to Shoulder to Encourage Co-Utilization: Contrast and Harmony
Plans to demolish the former Jinkichi Watanabe House (1934), a masterpiece of early modern Japanese residential architecture, were announced in 2016. Architectural historians who learned of this formed a preservation committee and launched an initiative to find a company that could assist with saving the building by carrying out an emergency dismantling and storing its parts. This led to a project to relocate the building to the Maeda Corporation’s ICI Center. Continue reading Tsubame Architects
