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Fumihiko Maki

National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto. Japan, 1983-86 Fumihiko Maki completed his first design for this new museum in 1970, located in the Okazaki Park in the northeastern part of Kyoto. It is directly next to an enormous red torii, which marks the entrance to the Heian Tempie. Zoning in this historie area limited the building to a 20 m height.

The museum, which has a limited collection, receives between 400,000 and 500,000 visitors a year.

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