Property InformationHibiya Daibiru Building

Accessible via eight train and subway lines including JR Shimbashi Station and Uchisaiwaicho Station. An excellent location close to Hibiya Park. Extensively renovated in 2016.
Offers regularly-shaped and efficient office spaces. The building uses CO₂-free electricity and has a 48-hour emergency power generator.

• Art gallery (Japanese)Works of art can be viewed at the Hibiya Daibiru Building
• Before-and-after comparison

  Comparing the old and the new: Hibiya Daibiru Building The old Building No. 1 transformed into 21-story skyscraper
  The old Building No. 2 transformed into a publicly accessible green open space

  More than 60 years had passed since construction of the Hibiya Daibiru Building, and its reconstruction plan was themed on “design incorporating the surrounding urban environment.” The design thus aimed to optimize the entire project by converting the site of Building No. 2 into a green space and compensating for this space by transforming the site of Building No. 1 into a skyscraper.
  The old Hibiya Daibiru Building was famed for the 125 gargoyle and animal masks attached to the exterior walls as talismans to ward off evil and was a familiar presence among local people. When the decision was made to reconstruct the building due to age-related deterioration, dozens of written petitions pleading to save the decorative animal masks and reliefs were received.
  In response to these calls, these masks and reliefs have been mounted in the courtyard of the 21st-floor atrium of the new Hibiya Daibiru Building and at locations in the publicly accessible open space.

  

  

  Site of the old Hibiya Daibiru Building No. 2 turned into a publicly accessible open space

  A bronze goddess statue and hero statue by Japanese sculptor Teizo Okuni, which had been placed on the left and right walls at the first-floor front entrance of the old Building No. 1, have been placed at the north and south entrances of the new building just as they were in the past.

  

  

  Gargoyle and animal masks and animal reliefs

  Six of the gargoyle and animal masks were equipped in the waterfall in the publicly accessible open space, where they were deployed as features with water pouring out of their mouths. Gargoyle and animal masks and animal reliefs were also mounted at various locations on the site and enjoyed mass media coverage for their creation of striking scenes in an urban space.

  

  

  A comparison of the Hibiya Daibiru Building before and after reconstruction and its transition can be viewed.