Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
The Yatsushiro Municipal Museum in Yatsushiro, Kyushu was one of the earliest projects of Kumamoto Artpolis, a prefecture-wide program of innovative architecture. It was built in 1991 and designed by Toyo Ito.
It appears very light with its sweeping canopies, and to my mind is reminiscent of one of his most famous earlier projects, Steel Hut.
It appears to be a single storey building, but the artificial hill it stands on contains a lower floor.
The large cylindrical form on top is actually a storage space. Traditionally museums have storage in the basement, but the water table here is quite high.
I've been here twice but on both occasions it was closed so I cannot report on the museums content.
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a great building !!
ReplyDeletethank you !