Dormitory Common Area Size:L Electrical Control Room at Wangi

Electrical Control Room at Wangi Wangi

Equipment like this kept the production lines running through more than a century of glass manufacturing on this single site

the glowing orange liquid throwing dense clouds of steam as it hits cooler air

A green exit sign holds its position above the door frame

returned after time at a council depot

Dormitory Common Area Size:L Electrical Control Room at WangiThe common area of Seika Dormitory sits stripped and still, peeling paint and grimy windows the only evidence of the domestic life once organised around this space. Built in 1927 by the Gakuso Foundation to house Taiwanese students studying in Tokyo, the reinforced concrete building operated for 80 years before a 2007 fire displaced its remaining residents. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.