金沢市には、金沢21世紀美術館や鈴木大拙館、金沢海みらい図書館など国内外から評価を得た現代建築があるほか、城下町として発達した中心市街地には、長町武家屋敷跡、東茶屋街、西茶屋街、主計町茶屋街など歴史的なまちなみや建造物も数多く存在しています。また、金沢市立玉川図書館は、「東宮御所」や「迎賓館和風別館」を設計した谷口吉郎氏と、その子で「ニューヨーク近代美術館」や「鈴木大拙館」を設計した谷口吉生氏の唯一の親子共同作品です。
金沢は、建築のまちでもあります。戦災や大きな災害を免れたため、藩政時代からの美しいまちなみが現在でも多く残っており、金沢市の貴重な財産となっています。ぜひ一度、金沢を建築の視点からながめてみてください。
Here Kanazawa is also an architectural city.
Here in Kanazawa City, there are modern architectures such as 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Daisetsu Museum, and Kanazawa Umi-mirai Library which got an evaluation from the inside and outside the country. In the central area it has developed as a castle town, there are many historical towns and buildings, Nagamachi Samurai District, Higashi Chaya District, Nishi Chaya District, Kazue-machi Chaya District or Geisha-streets. In addition, Kanazawa City Tamagawa Library is the only parent-child collaboration between Mr. Yoshiro Taniguchi, who designed “Crown Prince's Palace” and “Guesthouse Japanese style annex”, and Yoshio Taniguchi, who designed “New York Museum of Modern Art” and “Suzuki Daisetsu Museum”.
Kanazawa is also an architectural city. Since it was free from war disasters and natural disasters, there are still many beautiful towns from the Hansei-era, or the feudal government period, then those have become a valuable asset of Kanazawa City. Could you please take a look at Kanazawa City from an architectural perspective.