The Japan Timesさんのインスタグラム写真 - (The Japan TimesInstagram)「For the past 130 years, Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel has witnessed the city’s changing landscape, Japan’s emergence into a tourism hotbed and makeovers by several architects. Of the final group, one name stands above: the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who 100 years ago this month completed an acclaimed renovation of the famed hotel. While Wright may be the most famous steward of the Imperial Hotel, he was just one of many over the years. For the building’s 1890 opening, Yuzuru Watanabe designed the hotel as a comfortable Victorian-style guesthouse for foreign visitors, followed by Wright in 1922 and the third-generation expansion by Teitaro Takahashi in the 1970s. In March 2021, the hotel announced plans to embark on the fourth renovation of the Imperial Hotel. Moving on from a Wright design made international headlines and raised a few eyebrows, but the architect chosen for the project — Paris-based Tsuyoshi Tane of Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects — states that the goal is not to modernize but to regain the legacy of its origin when it opens in 2036. Read more with the link in our bio. 📸 Courtesy of The Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects #japan #tokyo #imperialhotel #hotel #hotels #architecture #archidaily #history #japantimes #日本 #東京 #ホテル #帝国ホテル #建築 #建築家 #建築デザイン #デザイン #歴史 #ジャパンタイムズ #🏨」9月19日 17時29分