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• Hundertwasserhaus

An Urban Oasis situated amongst the designer luxuries of Ayoma district, the Nezu Museum, according to its design team, is meant to embody roji, a traditional Japanese design for a garden path that aims to pull the mind away from the outside world and create rarefied aesthetic experiences. A bamboo thicket delineates the museum from the streetscape, and pebble-lined paths lead to the dark steel-panel-clad building. The museum houses a collection of antiquities from Japan and throughout Asia. A broad Japanese clay tile roof with steel-plated ends—treated with phosphoric acid to make them as thin as possible—gently slopes over the structure. These delicate overhangs, supported by stone eaves, provide shade. The interior is wrapped in bamboo veneer and grey choral sandstone produced in Qingdao, China. The entry, on the north elevation, features a glazed wall to provide views of surrounding gardens from within.

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