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Toyo Ito

Shimosuwa Lakę Suwa Museum Shimosuwa-machi, Nagano, Japan, 1990-93

The site of this museum is 200 m long, but very narrow, and situated between a four-lane prefectural highway and a band including railroad tracks and an-other road. Toyo Ito imagined his structure in the shape of an over-turned boat, complete with an emerging concrete rudder at the rear. Despite the relatively literał naturę of this reference, Ito has madę the overall form sufficiently abstract for it to be quite spectacular.

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