Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Steel Hut


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The Steel Hut, along with the Silver Hut, make up the Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture.

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Unsurprisingly it was designed by architect Toyo Ito.

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It is located near the small fishing village of Munakata on Omishima in the Seto Inland Sea between Hiroshima and Shikoku.

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On the website for the museum you can download the plan of its design and construct one yourself out of paper........ here

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The building consists of four different polyhedrons and is constructed in steel.

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Construction finished and the museum opened in 2011.

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