Benesse House Museum | Tadao Ando
7-19-2025: Moderni; Naoshima had long suffered from environmental degradation caused by the smoke of a copper refinery built in the 1910s. In the late 1980s, a grand plan was launched to restore the island’s blighted landscape while creating places for people and art. Ando took on the task of designing the architecture to give shape to this vision. The first building to be completed was the Benesse House Museum, which is an art museum with a hotel. The museum at the tip of the promontory, the “Oval” hotel on the hill behind it, and the stepped plaza adjoining a pier have been designed to blend into the landscape. The buildings are hardly visible when approached by sea. The concrete walls inserted into the landscape create a beautiful contrast…Read More!

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