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21_21 Design Sight

Tokyo · Minato · Japan

21_21 Design Sight

MuseumCulture photo spotgoogle verified
~60 min
easy
8/10
best: afternoon
contemplative
A local would say...

Pritzker Prize-winner Ando Tadao designed the building to look like a single sheet of iron folded into the earth.

Ando Tadao's striking concrete and glass building seems to burst from the ground at sharp angles in the garden of Tokyo Midtown, like a partially buried origami creation. Inside, this exhibition space is dedicated to all forms of design — from industrial to fashion to architecture — with thoughtfully curated shows that consistently challenge what design even means. The space itself, with its dramatic plays of natural light and raw concrete, is part of the exhibit. It's the kind of place that sends you back into the city seeing shapes and surfaces differently.

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