Imperial Hotel Lobby, Frank Lloyd Wright | Tokyo
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The reconstructed main entrance and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Imperial Hotel, which originally stood in Tokyo from 1923 to 1967, when the main structure was demolished to make way for a new, larger version of the hotel. It now stands in "Meiji village" museum,an open-air architectural museum/theme park in Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan.
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Thank you for sharing this video.
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Gorgeous.
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This building endured great earthquakes and US bombing (directly hit).Generally speaking stone buildings are vulnerable to quakes. But his structural calculation was perfect.
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Thank you so much for posting this video. I am a student of the great FLW and this video (with Vivaldi playing in the background) has satisfied my previously unfulfilled desire to know the structure.
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how did he get the drunks and druggers who do construction to do this work
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@12011237 The Japanese sought out Frank Lloyd Wright to design their hotel. The structure famously survived the magnitude 8.3 Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. So, huh?
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Frank should have just stayed in Wisconsin and never set foot in Japan. The Japanese can design better temples than he can.
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I have just listened to a record of Frank Lloyd Wrigth's talking about this building and decided to have a look and was disheartened to discovered that it had demolished in 1968. Thanks for sharing this video!
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I love he blended modern architecture, with Japanise Culture
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now at "Meiji-Mura" Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan. This is the original Imperial hotel lobby, moved from Tokyo to this outdoor museum. One of the most accessible FLW structures
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its the façade and lobbey moved to a park i think
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@rlt94 Is this a reproduction, or is it the original entrance & lobby from the Imperial ? I have a book somewhere w / copies of the blueprints in fan - fold form.
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thank you
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in some of his earlier work, like this, one can see clear influence of the arts and crafts movement and other forms of art nouveau and related schools of art along with japanese style , but there is a unique aspect and i think its safe to say that frank lloyd wright was one of the best architects of all time, his work harkens back to an era during which they actually cared about craftsmanship and attention to detail
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beautiful
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Aztec, Decca Indian, Viennese secession: this was the day of DECCO INTERNATIONAL cubismo blending! ONE WORLD ARCHITECTURE! Very exciting! Socialist common front in Japan tripled reps. in the '27 elections. See "A Page of Madness (1926)" for Japanese Manifesto of these ideas; especially the corridor crowd scene. Fabians, Anarchists, Bolshies, & Social Demos all hurtling towards a new world vision! One perverted later by Hitler & Imperial Military cult!
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Great Meiji restauration! They knocked down the Royal Vic & thousands of old buildings - heat bills, room costs way too high post-war. Wright made a lot of mistakes in this building. ex. He thought their Volcanic rock was like Limestone back home - easy to cut & work - then hardens. But Japan rock didn't harden! Also subterranian water. He could handle rain drainage & earthquake with floating pods, but underground streams caused uneven settling.
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Thank you for bringing this to us. At least the details are somewhat preserved.
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it's creepy but surely beautiful.
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How could anyone be so stupid as to tear down a structure like that?