Living Room hobs and neighbouring shopfronts press in

and neighbouring shopfronts press in tight on either side

rising toward the apex of the exposed roof

000 residents at its 1960 peak and now counts fewer than 6

The Ogurawa settlement was built by Nitchitsu Co

A corrugated iron shed bearing the painted name "J

Living Room hobs and neighbouring shopfronts press inThe living room of Seika Dormitory sits undisturbed, furniture left where residents last arranged it, wallpaper lifting from the walls in the years after the 2007 fire displaced the building's final occupants. Built in 1927 by the Gakuso Foundation to house Taiwanese students in Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, the reinforced concrete building stood sealed for six years before its demolition in 2013. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.