21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

The twenty first Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of present day artwork placed in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum become designed by using Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, twelve months after its establishing the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors. The Museum is placed inside the middle of Kanazawa, near Kenroku-en lawn and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. The building has a circular form, with a diameter of 112.5 metres.

This form pursuits to preserve the appearance of the overall constructing quantity low, to mitigate the scale of the task and allows get admission to from a couple of points of entry. The transparency of the building in addition manifests the desire to avoid the museum being perceived as a huge, introverted mass. The building includes community gathering areas, which includes a library, lecture hall, and children’s workshop, positioned on the outer edge, and museum spaces within the middle. The exhibition regions include numerous galleries with a couple of alternatives for division, expansion, or awareness.