Hirosaki's historical buildings have been awarded one after another and designated as cultural properties.

On May 20, "Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art" (Yoshino-cho, Hirosaki City, TEL 0172-32-8950 ) won the Grand Prix of the French Architecture Award "French Foreign Architecture Award". The award is an international architectural award accredited by the French Agency for Cultural Affairs, which recognizes activities abroad for architects based in France. The Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art was renovated by Tsuyoshi Tane, who is based in France.

The building was renovated from the "Yoshinomachi Brick Warehouse" built in the Meiji and Taisho eras as the first public museum in Hirosaki City with the concept of "inheriting memory". Opened in 2020. The brick structure has been made more earthquake resistant, leaving as much of the existing material as possible, and the cider gold roof is a symbol.

On the 21st, "Kimura Industrial Research Institute" (Zaifucho) was designated as a national important cultural property. "Kimura Sangyo Kenkyusho" is the first building in Japan by Kunio Maekawa, who studied under Le Corbusier, a master of modern architecture. The historical value of the building was highly evaluated because of the characteristics of modernist architecture at that time, such as the appearance that emphasized the horizontal.

Saori Murakawa of Hirosaki's citizen group "Kunio Maekawa's Construction Value Association" said, "I am very happy that the nationally registered cultural property has become an important cultural property. It is a great opportunity to be known not only by the citizens of Hirosaki but also throughout Japan that it is a valuable heritage. "

In addition, "Fumonin Main Hall" (Nishishigemori) was designated as the 15th city tangible cultural property on May 20th. The Kannon-do, which was located in Mt. Momori, which was near the current Mori-cho, was relocated along with the construction of Hirosaki Castle. In the chapel, which was expanded due to the burning of the main hall in 1718, an ink book commemorating the worship after the Bunsei era has been confirmed.

The city official said that the reason for the designation was "It is a valuable building that shows that the Buddhist belief at that time spread not only to specific people but also to the general public, and there are no buildings with similar characteristics in the prefecture. I came to. "

A college student in his 20s living in Hirosaki said, "I didn't know that there was such a historic building in the town where I usually live," after the three Hirosaki buildings were evaluated in a short period of time. A woman in her 40s smiles, "Hirosaki is a castle town, so I wanted to find more."