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Sendai Mediatheque
Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.
Architecture in Miyagi19 entries
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Osaki Hachimangu
Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.
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Miyagi Prefectural Library
By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.
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Murata Storehouse Town
A street of merchant storehouses built on the safflower trade, a preservation district.
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Tome Education Museum
An 1888 school in the pseudo-Western style, timber imitating stone architecture; an Important Cultural Property.
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Tome Police Museum
A preserved Meiji police station; the town keeps a whole cluster of pseudo-Western buildings.
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Former Yubikan
One of Japan's oldest surviving domain schools, its garden a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Shiroishi Castle
Rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, a rarity among postwar castle reconstructions.
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Horaguchi Family Residence
A thatched farmhouse keeping the older straight-plan form of the Sendai plain.
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Sendai Castle Ruins
The Date clan's castle, which never had a keep; its high stone walls and equestrian statue stand instead.
Kesennuma
Kesennuma Inner Bay Buildings
The lost heart of a port town rebuilt in low timber structures, now studied as recovery design.
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Onagawa Renga-michi
From Shigeru Ban's station a single promenade runs straight to the sea - a whole town recomposed.
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Minamisanriku Sansan Shopping Village
Kengo Kuma built this market street from local cedar, long low roofs on raised ground.
Iwanuma
Iwanuma City Library
A post-disaster library, a two-storey steel-frame building designed to double as a shelter.
Shiogama
Shiogama Market and Streets
A town where shrine approach and harbour meet on a slope, its storehouses and market still in use.