Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
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Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
Kenzo Tange set it on axis with the Atomic Dome and lifted it on columns, so passing beneath frames the ruin ahead.
A Czech architect's exhibition hall, left as a steel skeleton beside the hypocentre and, after long argument, kept.
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
Taira no Kiyomori built it on the sea itself; at high tide it floats, at low tide it stands on sand - two buildings in a day.
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
Temples and houses stacked on a narrow slope between sea and mountain, linked by lanes no car can enter.
A town rich on salt and sake, its houses each with a differently spaced lattice front.
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
Seven breweries along one kilometre, their red tiles, white walls and brick chimneys repeating down the street.
On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.
A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.
Seven bridges hopping island to island, each a different structural type - a working catalogue of bridge form.
Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.
Called the floating castle because the tide reached its walls; the stonework now sits beneath the railway station.