21_21 Design Sight is a design museum in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, within Tokyo Midtown near Roppongi. Tadao Ando Architect & Associates designed it in collaboration with Nikken Sekkei. The article says Issey Miyake founded it, with Mitsui Fudosan supporting the proposal, but names no client. It opened on March 30, 2007. No style is named.
The building uses concrete, extensive glazing and a folded steel roof cut from a steel plate about 54 meters (177 feet) long. The roof was inspired by the clothing-design concept "A Piece of Cloth." About 80 percent of the 1,932 square meters (20,800 square feet) of floor space is underground, including 686 square meters (7,400 square feet) of exhibition space.
Two basement galleries open onto a sunken courtyard, and Gallery 3 opened in March 2017. It received a special prize of the 2014 Mainichi Design Award. The article gives no hours.
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