• no.004

  • Kosuge Prison

    • Current Name: Tokyo Detention House・Administrative building
    • Category: Infrastructure facility
    • Architect: The Ministry Justice (Shigeo KAMBARA)
    • Construction: Self Build
    • Year: 1929
    • Location: Tokyo
    • On a large site in Katsu-shika, in Tokyo, stands a modern prison complex built in 1929. The prison administrative office complex consists of office wings and a control/ observation/ clock tower. Shigeo Kambara, a young in-house architect in the Ministry of Justice, designed the complex. While the frontal view evokes an image of a bird with wings spread, the composition is the last specimen of the Japanese expressionism, since the movement that had begun in the early 1920's ended around the end of that decade, about the same time as the construction of this building. The complex was constructed in reinforced concrete, still a relatively new construction method at the time in Japan, with a cleverly developed foundation system to counter poor soil conditions of the site. Although the complex was built in the era of not really democratic socio-political condition in Japan, this work of Kambara surely belongs to a kind of architecture with a particular virtue that illustrates another facet of the early phase of Japanese modernism. The administrative office building was repainted in its original color, pastel light water green in 1983.
    • Cultural Property Info: Important Cultural Property
    • docomomo選定年度：1999
    • 重要文化財：2024
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    Infrastructure facility

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      京都西陣電話局

    • 佐世保無線電信所（針尾送信所）無線塔１号塔・2号塔・3号塔および通信局舎

      佐世保無線電信所（針尾送信所）無線塔１号塔・2号塔・3号塔および通信局舎

    • 千住郵便局電話事務室

      千住郵便局電話事務室

    • 日本電波塔

      日本電波塔

    • 東京市中央卸売築地市場

      東京市中央卸売築地市場

    Tokyo

    • NCRビル

      NCRビル

    • SPIRAL

      SPIRAL

    • まつかわ・ぼっくす

      まつかわ・ぼっくす

    • コアのあるH氏のすまい

      コアのあるH氏のすまい

    • スカイハウス

      スカイハウス

    1920～1929

    • 清心高等女学校

      清心高等女学校

    • 鶴巻鶴一邸

      鶴巻鶴一邸

    • 千住郵便局電話事務室

      千住郵便局電話事務室

    • ライジングサン石油会社共同住宅

      ライジングサン石油会社共同住宅

    • 自由学園南沢キャンパス（門、初等部/食堂・教室、女子部/食堂・教室・回廊・体操館・講堂、男子部/教室・体操館）

      自由学園南沢キャンパス（門、初等部/食堂・教室、女子部/食堂・教室・回廊・体操館・講堂、男子部/教室・体操館）