- no.055
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St. Clara Church
- Current Name: Yonabaru Catholic church
- Category: Religious building
- Architect: Ken KATAOKA
- Construction: Self-Build by members of the church
- Year: 1958
- Location: Okinawa
- On a small knoll in Yonabaru-cho, Okinawa, stands a catholic church with a convent. The church and convent each have a grassed courtyard and is organized around it. The respective courtyard and cloister lay a promenade for a blessed entry to a sacred space. The individual cell-rooms of the convent are designed with solacing simplicity and the church interior is filled with the spirited tropical sunlight taken through the stained-glass wall that opens to the courtyard and the Pacific Ocean beyond. The architect Ken Kataoka designed this project in affiliation with an American architectural firm in Okinawa at the time for designing various American military base related facilities. This church complex attests to a fascinating spatial champroo or mixture of architecture that is seemingly modern, but vaguely American in its touch, and yet, in the end, altogether Okinawan.
- docomomo選定年度:2003
Religious building
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カトリック桂教会
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シトー会西宮の聖母修道院
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世界平和記念聖堂
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出雲大社庁の舎
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所沢聖地霊園礼拝堂・納骨堂
Okinawa
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レジデンシャルホテル ムーンビーチ
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今帰仁村中央公民館
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名護市庁舎
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在沖米国軍陸軍病院
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那覇市民会館
1950~1959
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横浜市庁舎
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世田谷区役所・区民会館
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国立西洋美術館
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都ホテル佳水園
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白石駅本屋