Architecture Archive

The silver metal dragons are dancing, filling the entire screen.–This is the inside of a Large Helical Device, in the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan.

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Tetsujin 28 gou is originally a comic by YOKOYAMA Mitsuteru, a famous comic artist in Japan. It started in 1956 and was serialized for over a decade. Tetsujin 28 gou is also known as “Gigantor”.
It is still so popular that it was made into a movie and a game recently.

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Matsuyama castle is one of the biggest castles in Japan. This castle is built on Mt.Katsuyama, the center of Matsuyama city.

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It was built as a church of The Anglican Church in Japan. The first floor is made of bricks, the second floor is made of wood, and the roof is tiled with a sheet copper. These are ingenuities to make the church quakeproof.
The first floor was for Sunday school and the kindergarten, whilst the second floor was the hall.

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Old Imperial Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright

Museum Meijimura is an open-air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architectures of the Meiji period (1868-1912). You would think that there are many traditional Japanese style architectures, but most of the architectures are western style.

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The Old British Consulate in Hakodate is in Motomachi Park. It was established in 1859, when Hakodate opened the port. Since then, the consulate has raised the Union Jack in Hakodate for 75 years.
After being in a fire several-times, the consulate was rebuilt in its current place in 1913; designed by the British government Engineering works ministry Construction bureau in Shanghai.

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Old Public Hall of Hakodate ward is an American colonial style building. The hall exists on top of the MOTOMACHI park. The designer was KONISHI asajiro, who was an engineer of Hakodate ward. The contractor was MURAKI jinsabro, who was the great master carpenter in Hakodate.

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