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The International House of Japan
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Category: Multipurpose facility
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Architect: Junzo SAKAKURA, Junzo YOSHIMURA, Kunio MAYEKAWA
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Design Collaboration: Renovation and extension design: Mitsubishi Jisho Design
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Construction: Shimizu Corporation
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Year: 1955
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Additional Construction: Renovation and Extention；2006
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Location:
Tokyo
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The Rockefeller Foundation et al. had provided a large endowment for the establishment of an international cultural exchange complex in Tori-i-zaka, the placid residential quarters only blocks behind the dazzling glimmer of Roppongi’s main streets, comprised of auditorium, seminar and conference rooms, banquet halls, and residential/ hotel facilities. The project became a uniquely rare interlude for it was designed jointly by three leading Japanese architects of the period, Junzo Sakakura, Kunio Mayekawa and Junzo Yoshimura. Constructed with poured-in-place thin-set reinforced concrete roofs, pre-cast concrete columns and beams, and Japanese tufa, Ohya-ishi, and combined with large wooden window sashes and shoji-screens; together, create the crisp and limpidly modern, yet implicitly Japanese spaces.
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Cultural Property Info: Tangible Cultural Property
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docomomo選定年度：2003
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登録有形文化財：2006
