布谷ビル NUNOTANI BLDG.
Takuji Kogo + Mike Bode
2001
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EISENMAN ARCHITECTS
THE ZENIDAKA CORPORATIONS + DESIGN COMPANY OF NUNOTANI COMPANY,
BUILT IN 1991 EDOGAWA TOKYO JAPAN
Built as the main office building of the design company NUNOTANI corporation's Tokyo branch at the total cost of 2500,000,000 yen in 1991.
However the building's function soon turned into a warehouse. The NUNOTANI corporation went bankrupt in 2000 largely due to the
investments the company had made at the end of the bubble economy in Japan.
The administration of property Osaka district court has had the building and the site up for sale since 2000.
A company " Life support" finally bought the dilapidated building at an auction in 2003 for 400,000,000 yen and subsequently converted the
building into the old-age peoples home YURARI EDOGAWA GREEN PARK. The building was renovated by the Architect Takao Kase.
Exhibition
Yokohama Triennial 2001
Korean web art festival Seoul 2001
Kitakyushu Biennial "Cute or Creepy?"
Publication
Lost In Space Published by Akiyoshidai International Artist Village 2002
Kitakyushu Biennial Published by The Art Institute Kitakyushu 2007
Mike Bode + Takuji Kogo
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