SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) is an architecture firm based in Tokyo, founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. The two partners shared the Pritzker Prize in 2010, and the firm's buildings stand in Japan, Europe, the United States and Australia.
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004) holds galleries of many sizes and kinds of light, from bright rooms under glass ceilings to rooms with no daylight, inside a round glass wall that Sejima bent gently towards an oval. The Rolex Learning Center (2010), the main library of the EPFL in Lausanne. At the Louvre-Lens (2012), the museum is a string of five low buildings, meant to blend into the land: the central one has glass walls, the others are clad in polished aluminium that gives a blurred reflection of the surroundings. Other SANAA projects include the Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art (2006), Dior Omotesando in Tokyo (2003) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building (Sydney Modern, Naala Nura) (2022). SANAA's buildings are studied for lightness, glass and the way a building can step back into its setting.
Kumano Kodo Nakahechi Museum of Art1997 · Tanabe
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa2004 · Kanazawa
Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art2006 · Toledo
Zollverein School of Management and Design2006 · Essen
Rolex Learning Center2010 · Lausanne
Bocconi University Urban Campus2019 · Milan
Dior Omotesando2003 · Tokyo
Naoshima Ferry Terminal2006 · Naoshima
De Kunstlinie2007 · Almere
Louvre-Lens2012 · Lens
Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building (Sydney Modern, Naala Nura)2022 · Sydney