Kanayama Minami Building, Skyscraper and art museum in Nagoya, Japan.
The Kanayama Minami Building is a 135-metre skyscraper at the south exit of Kanayama Station in Nagoya, designed by Nihon Sekkei and completed in 1998. Its high-rise section holds the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Grand Court Nagoya on floors B1–7 and 16–30 and the Nagoya Urban Center on floors 11–15, while the low-rise museum wing, with the Intercommon indoor public space on its ground floor, occupies floors 3–5. Total floor area is 61,098 m2.
The tower was built in 1998 to a design by Nihon Sekkei, rising 135 m with 61,098 m² of floor space as the landmark of Kanayama, a secondary centre of Nagoya. Its three parts opened in spring 1999: the Nagoya Urban Centre on 26 March, the Hotel Grand Court Nagoya on 8 April and the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts on 17 April.
The low-rise museum wing, formerly the Nagoya Boston Museum of Art, closed on 8 October 2018. Since February 2021 the city has rented it out by the month for art and museum use; the first show was "Banksy: Genius or Vandal?", which reopened the building after two years and four months. Its ground-floor Intercommon is an indoor public space used for events.
The building sits directly at the south exit of Kanayama Station, served by the JR Tokaido and Chuo lines, Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, and the Nagoya Municipal Subway Meijo and Meiko lines. Parking in the south lot occupies floors B2 to B4 and holds 347 vehicles. The Nagoya Urban Center on floors 11 to 15 includes a library specializing in urban planning.
The museum wing closed on 8 October 2018 when the Nagoya Boston Museum shut. After two failed long-term tenders, the city switched to monthly lets at 4.4 million yen plus utilities, and the first event was a Banksy exhibition opening on 3 February 2021.
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