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Daimaru Osaka Shinsai-bashi Store
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Category: Commercial Use
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Architect: William Merrell VORIES
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Construction: Takenaka-komuten
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Year: 1933
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Location:
Osaka
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Daimaru, in business since the Edo period, with its first retail store built in 1726, in Shinsai-bashi, Osaka, revolved through the ages, and, with the esprit nouveau of the time, it built on the very same site of its original store in 1922~25, a thoroughly modern department store in a 6-story reinforced concrete structure William Merrell Vories. And in 1933, coinciding with the opening of a new boulevard, Mido-suji, and the start of a new subway line service, a 7-story west annex with a neo-gothic motif facade was built. Its design introduced a series of vivacious features as in the glass faced show windows along the sidewalk, modern lighting, an impressive series of Art Deco ornaments displaying the pictorial designs taken from Aesop’s Fables, etc.
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Current Condition: Exterior wall preservation
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docomomo選定年度:2003
Commercial Use
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SPIRAL
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ソニービル
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ファッションコミュニティ109
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フロム・ファーストビル
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三愛ドリームセンター
Osaka
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住友ビルディング
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住吉の長屋
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千里ニュータウン
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塩野義製薬研究所
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大阪ガスビルディング
1930~1939
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大阪中央郵便局
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長者原発電所
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傷痍軍人東京療養所外気小舎
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横須賀海仁会病院
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東大付属植物園本館