Pop-up card (buildings in Fukuyama City)
It has been a while since I updated the main website.
In my last blog entry, I wrote about Fukuyama City and Takeda Goichi, and these pop-up cards were completed.
The photo above is the former Fukuyama City Council Chambers.
Fukuyama City Office and the council chambers were built at the same time in 1930. The capitol building was connected to the city hall by a corridor. The flat house on the left side of the card is the connection to the corridor.
The second card is the former Fukuyama City Office.
For some reason, “The Works of Dr. Takeda,” published in 1933 to commemorate Takeda Goichi’s 60th birthday, describes the city office as a “two-story reinforced concrete structure,” but it was a wooden structure.
It seems that Fukuyama City was struggling with the cost of building the city office, so perhaps it was initially conceived as a reinforced concrete structure, which was then changed to a wooden structure?
The city office was completely destroyed by fire in an air raid on August 8, 1945.
In the Fukuyama air raid, approximately 80% of the city area was destroyed by fire overnight, and more than 10,000 houses were lost.
Among public buildings, Fukuyama Station, police station, post office, city office, fire station, tax office, courthouse, public health center, telephone station, several national schools, vocational schools and girls’ schools, and Fukuyama Castle were destroyed by fire.
The death toll from the air raids was 244, and 864 people were injured.
In the midst of such air raids, the council chambers and the public hall, which were located next to the city office, were not destroyed by fire. It is said that the city employees struggled to extinguish the fire.
The next photo shows the former Fukuyama City Public Hall.
As I wrote in a previous article, this is an improved version of a card I made 10 years ago.
I also made another card of the renovated building.
Eave was built in the front and doors were installed in the arches. It seems that the interior and the structure of the stage were also changed significantly.
The eave was made into separate part and glued to the card.
Fukuyama Castle, which was destroyed in an air raid, was rebuilt in 1966.
However, the public hall, which survived the air raid, was demolished in 1965.
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In June, I focused more on the blog and neglected the production of artworks.
However, the access history shows that the blog receives more hits if it is updated every day, so it is a problem to reduce the blog updates.
I would like to keep updating the blog while maintaining a balance between the production of artworks and the blog.
Now, considering the ease of cutting, I have made the pattern of the Former Fukuyama City Council Chambers available for downloading.
If you would like to see the pattern, please take a look at it as well.
[Link to the main website]
* Former Fukuyama City Hall
* Former Fukuyama City Council Chambers (The pattern is available to download)
* Former Fukuyama City Public Hall