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Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari-um): Exterior · Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, at Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan, design by Mario Botta in 1990
1/2 · Exterior · Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, at Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan, design by Mario Botta in 1990Photo: Wiiii · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari-um): Exterior
2/2 · ExteriorPhoto: DoWhile · Public domain · source
Photo 1: Exterior · Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, at Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan, design by Mario Botta in 1990Photo 2: Exterior

Museum · Postmodernism

Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari-um)

Mario Botta · Tokyo, Japan · 1990

Key featuresA narrow wedge-plan building with a banded black-and-white facade split by a central vertical slot.

Architect
Mario Botta
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Year
1990
Typology
Museum
Movement
Postmodernism
Region
East Asia
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