Hekikai Shinkin Bank unveiled Tuesday a new branch building in Nagoya
designed by architect Kengo Kuma, the designer for the new National
Stadium, the main arena for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Anjo, Aichi Prefecture-based shinkin bank’s seven-story Misono
branch building, located in Naka Ward of Nagoya, features Kuma’s
trademark Japanese modern style design, with many long planks diagonally
attached on glass walls and tall trees planted at a “green void” corner
of the building.
In the building, set to open on July 18, wood
and “washi” paper are used in line with Kuma’s design concept of
creating a gentle environment for both customers and workers.
At a
press conference the same day, Kuma said his first design of an entire
bank building was aimed at enabling people to “feel the philosophy that
the financial institution wants to be open to the community.”
Jiji Press
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