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Kiyo Bank, Sakai Building (紀陽銀行堺支店)

Sakai, Osaka Prefecture

Kiyo Bank, Sakai Building (紀陽銀行堺支店), Sakai, Osaka Prefecture
Photo: “Kiyo Bank Sakai Branch” · Suikotei · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0, cropped

Sources checked October 2026

“A building of ten storeys above ground and two below, designed by Ando's office for a Wakayama bank and completed in 1994.”
Year
1994
Architect
Tadao Ando
Type
Office building and bank branch
Access
Sakai branch of Kiyo Bank, to be seen from the outside (bank's annual report, June 2025)

Tadao Ando's office designed this Sakai building, completed in September 1994, for Kiyo Bank, a bank headquartered in Wakayama. Built by the Zenitaka company with a steel-reinforced concrete and reinforced concrete structure, it has ten storeys above ground and two below. The bank keeps its Sakai branch there.

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History

The building was commissioned by Kiyo Bank and designed by Tadao Ando's office; the Zenitaka company built it and completed it in September 1994.

Architecture

The building has two basement levels and ten above ground, with a steel-reinforced concrete and reinforced concrete structure.

Use today

Kiyo Bank, headquartered in Wakayama, keeps its Sakai branch there.

Visiting

The building can be seen from the street.

34.58° N, 135.47° E

Sources (3)

  1. zenitaka.co.jp/works/achievements/05-66.html
  2. disclosure2dl.edinet-fsa.go.jp/searchdocument/pdf/S100W0CH.pdf
  3. ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/安藤忠雄