Here is the museum website with a picture http://mimt.jp/english.html Mitsubishi Estate is the largest real estate company in Japan, and would appear to own much of Tokyo and a fair bit of the rest of Japan too, as well as having fully bought out Rockefeller Group in New York in 1989.
In fact, as people who live in Tokyo will know, the whole are is being rebuilt/restored. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080522f3.html
ここに博物館のサイトと絵です。http://mimt.jp/japanese.html
A nineteenth century office building in central Tokyo has been reconstructed using portions of the original plans and materials. The reborn structure will function as a museum.
The building, owned by Mitsubishi Estate, was opened to the media on Monday.
The Mitsubishi Ichigokan, or Number One, building was completed in 1894 as the first office space in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo.
British architect Josaih Conder designed the original brick structure with 3 floors and a basement. It was demolished in 1968.
It took about 2 years to reconstruct the building using about 2.3 million bricks. The exterior was faithfully reconstructed based on blueprints and photographs of the original structure.
The new space, to be called the Mitcubishi Ichigokan Museum, has about 20 rooms spread over 3 floors where art works - mainly 19th-century Western paintings - are due to be displayed.
There will also be a cafe on the first floor.
The building is to open to the public in April of next year.
東京に19世紀のオフィスビルが再建された
東京の中央に19世紀のオフィスビルは最初の図と材料で再建されたことがある。再生の建物は博物館として作用する。
建物は所有の三菱私有月曜日にメディアに開く。
三菱いちごかんビルかナンバーワンビルは１８９４に東京の丸の内の商業地域の最初のオフィス空間として終わられた。
英国の建築家コンダー、ジョサイアさんが最初の煉瓦の建物をデザインした。その建物は三階と地階が有った。1968に取り壊された。
建物の再建は230万煉瓦ぐらいで２年間ぐらいをかかった。外側は最初の建物の青写真と写真で忠実に修繕された。
新空間は三菱いちごかん博物館と言わせる。その空間は三階で20部屋ぐらいが有る。あちらで美術品、主に19の世紀の西洋スタイルの絵が展示をするはずです。
一階にカフェも有るはずです。
来年の４月に建物が人民ために開くはずです。
2 comments:
Interesting how that area will look when new building will be finished. Tokyo station, which is also very beautiful building, is completely surrounded by boxes.
Check out this building in Riga – it is near Gertrudes church on the right in the photo.
http://rigadailyphotos.blogspot.com/2007/06/old-gertrudes-church-gertrudes-baznica.html
There was old building, but they covered it will glass. Looks modern, but when looking through that glass wall old building can be seen inside. Kind of surreal, but another solution to keep old and new together.
Interesting idea - so inside that modern glass building, the old building is actually still there? I liked the reflection of the church in the glass building as well, beautiful!
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