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21_21 Design Sight
21_21 デザインサイトMinato, Tokyo
Museum
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
21_21 Design Sight is a design museum inside the Tokyo Midtown complex in Minato Ward, Tokyo, close to Roppongi. Fashion designer Issey Miyake founded it, and it opened on 30 March 2007 in a building by architect Tadao Ando. It shows temporary exhibitions rather than a permanent display, with talks and workshops that look at design through everyday objects.
About 80 percent of the building lies underground, which keeps it low in the landscaped grounds. Its angular steel roof, inspired by Miyake's idea of ‘A Piece of Cloth’, was shaped from a single folded steel plate about 54 metres long. Galleries 1 and 2 sit in the basement beside a sunken courtyard that lets in daylight, while Gallery 3 and the shop are on the ground floor. The name plays on 20/20 vision and expresses the aim of looking beyond familiar ways of seeing.
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Visit Duration
75 minutes
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