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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art: Exterior
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art: Exterior
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art: Interior
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art: Interior
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art: Context
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Museum · Late modernism

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

Arata Isozaki · Kitakyushu, Japan · 1974

Key featuresTwo long square-section tubes cantilever from a hilltop base, aimed at the city like binoculars.

Architect
Arata Isozaki
Place
Kitakyushu, Japan
Year
1974
Typology
Museum
Movement
Late modernism
Region
East Asia
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