Originally built for Kyoto Telephone by Tetsuro Yoshida in 1926, Kengo Kuma updated the Taisho era property for Ace Hotel's first Asian venture.‹›
Old Kyoto Central Telephone Office

Kengo Kuma

Exterior · Kyoto, Japan · 2020

Photo: Matsujima · 2022-12-27 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2500×1407

Originally built for Kyoto Telephone by Tetsuro Yoshida in 1926, Kengo Kuma updated the Taisho era property for Ace Hotel's first Asian venture.

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