横浜金沢ハイテクセンター, Research skyscraper in Kanazawa, Yokohama, Japan.
Yokohama Kanazawa High-Tech Center consists of a 22-storey general tower about 100 metres tall and a six-storey public building, both with one basement level, on a 14,891 m² site in Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku. The tower's light grey facade is a grid of square windows split by a central vertical strip, with a band of narrow windows up the left edge and glass along the top; an elevated road crosses its lower part.
The building opened as a support facility for technology companies, combining research spaces, office rentals, and lodging in one location. It was established to foster growth of tech companies in the Yokohama industrial area.
The name combines the district, Kanazawa, with "high-tech", reflecting the city's plan to concentrate new industry here. The public wing housed Techno Core, run by the Yokohama Foundation for Business Support, with laboratories, a technical consultation room, a reference library, an exhibition room and a networking salon for startups and university joint research.
The building is easily accessible in Kanazawa-ku in the eastern part of Yokohama. You should check in advance whether the facility allows public access since it functions as an active research and office building.
Yokohama City announced plans to sell the facility in 2023 after office demand declined in the area. The building had struggled with low occupancy for years, making it unsustainable to continue operating as originally planned.
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