The Nissay Theatre in Hibiya, Tokyo, underwent extensive renovations from 2015 to 2016 to be active for another several decades.

This prestigious theatre was built in 1963 to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the foundation of Nissay, Japan’s largest life insurance company.  This building in the first photo is a complex with offices and a theatre.  A mixed-use building was not common at that time though, thanks to the understandings and efforts of Hirose Gen, the then president of Nissay, Goshima Noboru, the then president of the Tokyu Group, Asari Keita, a famous director at that time, and Ishihara Shintaro, a famous politician at that time, the theatre was completed as one of the greatest ones in Japan.  Murano Togo, a Japanese master architect, designed the building featuring granite exterior, windows with balcony and decorative handrail, white marble interior, spiral staircases with red carpets, theatre interior design with curved walls and ceiling optimized for acoustic effects.  Because of the innovative design, might be too much advanced, it was criticized right after the completion, but it got highly reputed thereafter and finally won many first rank architecture awards.  It underwent full-fledged retrofit works leaving original designs in and out in 2015-2016.  This prestigious building boasts of original architectural beauty among other buildings lining along the moat of the Imperial Palace.

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