Big slabs of Brutalism

I was looking for a shot of a concrete wall to lay some 3D patterns I’ve been playing about with in Illustrator with the inflate tool and I remembered I took this shot back in 2016 in Taitō City area of Tokyo. I love this building - you could say it’s bold, basic and I suppose (if I knew what I was on about), it’s a fine example of brutalist architecture… or maybe it’s modernist? Oh bloody ‘eck I don’t know. Anyway it’s a beaut! I especially like the taxi driver on his cigg break looking up at who know’s what. The pruned tree, frozen in embarrassment of it’s nakedness.

For sometime I’d wondered what this building was and who it belonged to. Numerous attempts to reverse Google image search the wee elephant logo with MBC across it - remained futile, then last night I finally spotted a sign bottom right, zooming in to find ‘Makino Brothers & Company’. Turns out they made/make Ivory products. That poor little elephant!