In the first guide of the exciting tour of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association held last October, we guided the Okuno Building.
The information is as follows. And I had permission to enter the entrance in advance, so I would like to everyone on the day.
I was able to feel the retro atmosphere of Showa inside the building.
(Contents of guidance)
The Okuno Building was built in 1932 and was one of the best luxury apartments in the Ginza area called "Ginza Apartments". In addition, it is Japan's first private residential building with an elevator, designed by Ryoichi Kawamoto, who was a member of the Junkai at the time.
Since many buildings burned in the Great Kanto Earthquake, the Junkai has built concrete apartments in Tokyo and Yokohama that incorporate cutting-edge electricity, city gas, water supply, flush toilets, dustshoots, etc. at the time. It is an organization built in 16 places. The fact that Aoyama Apartment, one of the Dojunkai apartments, was dismantled in 2003 and became Omotesando Hills was remembered as it was often featured in the news.
Now that the existing building as a Dojunkai apartment has disappeared, the Okuno Building designed by Ryoichi Kawamoto of Dojunkai may be valuable as a building that retains its style.
Also, looking at the current situation where Takeda Building, one of the early Showa era buildings remaining in Ginza, is being dismantled and become a hotel, its rarity is increasing more and more. There are eight buildings in the early Showa period remaining in Ginza.
(That's all.)
And the other day, I took a closer look around the gallery while guiding a friend of the Okuno Building's first visit.
I met Ryo Ito's solo exhibition at Galerie La Gallerillar on the 6th floor.
Akira Ito solo exhibition
"Refraction star crust"
Ito is an anime-born painter living in Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture. He excels in precision painting and expresses pain and suffering.
"I'll live,"
Up of "I'll live"
It seems that this work took 5 years to complete.
Ito's work, whose theme is distress and pain, seemed to have light and strong energy ahead of it.
In the galleries on each floor of the Okuno Building, there were other French embroidery, the first solo exhibition of photographs, and a new world of creation. I spent a very close two hours with my friends.
Please take a manual elevator and wake up to each gallery.
