For example, they are commonly seen in Japanese department stores such as Sogo and Mitsukoshi in Japan and Taiwan, as well as high speed elevators in skyscrapers, as seen in Taipei 101, and at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Sogo once operated an outlet on Piccadilly Circus but it closed in the wake of the recession in the Japanese business community and the Japanese economy.
Sogo |
Born in Niihama, Ehime, Shikoku, in 1884, Shinji Sogo graduated from the Faculty of Law at Tokyo Imperial University in 1909, and joined the Railway Agency.
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At the same time, Sogō, who had kept estimated cost figures of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen deliberately low for fear that if they were too high neither the Japanese Government nor the World Bank would have supported the proposal, began to divert money from other JNR projects to the construction of the Shinkansen.
Other recognizable façade structures include Shilin Sogo department store MPG façade in Taiwan, Marina Bay Sands Casino Ned Kahn Wind Arbor in Singapore, LA Live Ritz Carlton hotel Los Angeles USA and People’s leasing bank HQ in Colombo Sri Lanka.