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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: Exterior
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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: Exterior
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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: Interior · Stairs in Contemp
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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: Interior
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Museum · Postmodernism

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Kisho Kurokawa · Hiroshima, Japan · 1988

Key featuresRow of storehouse-like roofs; materials rise from stone to tile to aluminium round an empty circular plaza.

Architect
Kisho Kurokawa
Place
Hiroshima, Japan
Year
1988
Typology
Museum
Movement
Postmodernism
Region
East Asia
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