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Shoto Museum of Art: Exterior · Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan , designed by Seiichi Sirai in 1981
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Museum · Late modernism

Shoto Museum of Art

Seiichi Shirai · Tokyo, Japan · 1980

Key featuresCurved wall of rough Korean granite under a bronze-louvred eave; galleries round a deep light well with fountains.

Architect
Seiichi Shirai
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Year
1980
Typology
Museum
Movement
Late modernism
Region
East Asia
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