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Mori Art Museum, Tokyo’s New Cultural Centerpiece, Opens October 2003

TOKYO (openPR) 7 July 2003

Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, opens the new International Center for Contemporary Art, the public 18 October 2003. On the top floor of the 54-story Mori Tower, the museum is a jewel in the crown is Roppongi Hills, a revolutionary, residential and cultural development of the community. An foreign platform for new and set up artists presents the Mori Art Museum new perspectives on art, architecture and design program accessible through exhibitions, public events and research projects.

by David Elliott, the first alien director of the Mori Art Museum, Japan’s Art Museum has executed an arresting program of exhibitions evolved, the importance of seeable culture and an intrinsical and can-do part of contemporary society. Â? Shining like a beacon in a city? S highest buildings, the Mori Art Museum, the site of discovery and experience, not only to synchronal art and photography, film, design, media arts, fashion and architecture? says Elliott. Â? The museum supports evolve the creativity and talent, a springboard for young Japanese and Asian artists in the exhibition and to work.Â?

David Elliott and guest curator Pier Luigi Tazzi are co-curator of the inaugural exhibition, “Happiness: Survival Guide for Art and Life,” which, as the concept of happiness is represented by the ages studied. A view of 18 October 2003 Â? 18. January 2004, “Happiness” feature a variety of books, past to synchronal art, even the fifth century Chinese Bodhisattva statue from the 17th Century Indian miniatures, masterpieces by artists much as Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, Art Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol, and fresh works by Takashi Murakami and Yasumasa Morimura mm.

the opening of the exhibitions are “Roppongi Crossing: New Visions of Japanese Art in 2004″ (? February 7  1 May 2004), the first regular series of (mid-May, A August 2004 “modern Means continuity and change in art now 1880? “?), an exhibition of more than 300 works from the Museum of Modern Art Collection, which presents a new perspective on the development of modern art and” Ilya Kabakov “(May? August 2004) The exhibition will be the delegate views on art, space and time to examine the recently premiered at the Venice Biennale.

Mori Art Museum, founded in Minoru Mori, president of the Mori Building Company, and developer of Roppongi Hills, and Yoshiko Mori, president of the museum board and long-time collector and patron of the arts in Japan. Â? Mori Art Museum is a fresh kind of art institution, experience in the people and chew over on synchronal culture, a? Mrs. Mori stated. Â? We hope that the new museum should be a place for enjoyment, encouragement and discussion.Â?

32 300-square-foot museum, Richard Gluckman Mayner Architects Gluckman designed culture is an integral part of Roppongi Hills and one of the largest space for contemporary art in Asia. Visitors come in the Museum of America at the domestic level, a spectacular 98-foot abundant rounded entrance of the shingle-style structure made of steel and glass, the FAA § ade that glows softly, like the paper lantern in the night.

express elevators take visitors to the Museum of the cone 52 and 53 floor where the museum? s galleries are arranged around an internal atrium. Because visitors to our galleries, dramatic views of downtown Tokyo, to better the seeable experience, influence with the outside world and act with art galleries.

Roppongi Hills

Roppongi Hills, which opened in April 2003, is the largest urban development project in Japan will never be realized private sector. It includes pre-modern architecture, traditional features, like a Japanese garden, a Buddhist temple and a children’s playground and play on the newly installed sculptures Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa. Called â? Rockefeller Center in Tokyo, Â? Roppongi Hills is a 28 acre site, the Mori Tower, Asahi Broadcasting Center, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo, Virgin Cinemas more than 200 retail shops and restaurants, and admit residential towers with a capacity of more than 840 families.

Museum is located at the Mori Arts Center, the Tokyo City View observation deck, Roppongi Hills Club was designed by Sir Terence Conran and includes developing the Roppongi Hills Academy, the International Centre for learning and cultural exchange removed.

General

Address:

52-53F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower

6-10-1 Roppongi Minato-ku

Tokyo 106-6150 Japan

opening times:

Sunday to Wednesday: 10:00 ama? 22:00

Thursday to Saturday: 10:00 ama? 12 Clock

site:

www.mori.art.museum

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House of Denen-Chofu(Okawa’s residence) [ Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum ]

A few nice tokyo residence images I found:

House of Denen-Chofu(Okawa’s residence) [ Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum ]



Taken with a Rolleiflex MiniDigi

House of Denen-Chofu(Okawa’s residence) @ Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Koganei, Tokyo

Window [ Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum ]



Taken with a Rolleiflex MiniDigi

Maekawa Kunio’s Residence @ Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Koganei, Tokyo

The Park Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo [ Tokyo Midtown ]



Taken with a Rolleiflex MiniDigi

The Park Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo @ Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Tokyo