JAPAN-ARCHITECTURE-CONSERVATION

A Kimono clad employee of Japan's iconic Hotel Okura greets customers at an elevator door in Tokyo on August 31, 2015. Tokyo's sixties-era modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura, host to US presidents, royalties, celebrities and spy James Bond, turned off the lights of the main building on August 31, more than half century after its opening heralded Japan's post-war coming out party. Despite an outcry from architectural preservationists, the fabled property shuts its doors for a four-year makeover that will give way to a gleaming high-rise hotel, the latest heritage building to see the wrecking ball in the ultra-modern Japanese megalopolis. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)