Address
524 Kaaahi St, Honolulu, HI 96817
TMK
1-5-007: 033
SHPD Historic Site Number
Not Yet Available
Abstract
The Fukuda Seed Company is significant under Criterion C as a three-story concrete and concrete masonry unit low-rise walkup apartment with business storefronts on the first floor. It was built in 1968 by general contractor Tadao Tamura and engineer William Chun Ming. The structure’s distinct Modern and International Style characteristics are a late adoption of forms initially implemented in Hawai‘i architecture as early as the 1930s. The building has a rounded-V shaped footprint and embodies elements linking it to both the International and Modern Styles. Modern features include rounded exterior corners, a flat roofline, and curving, thin, cantilevered canopies. International Style influences are represented by the lack of window detailing, smooth wall surfaces, and cantilevered projecting canopies, elements first employed in Hawai‘i later, during World War II.
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