Teshima Museum

Teshima Art Museum by Ryue Nishizawa with collaborating artist, Rei Naito, is a beautiful space in Japan. As described by Domus,

The Teshima Art Museum is almost completely empty, devoid of contents. Its interior is fluid, a concrete membrane carpeting the ground and wrapping up from shadowy edges to span as a low unobstructed dome overhead. Neither columns nor beams interrupt the organic singularity of the total volume. Similarly there is none of the clutter normally associated with museums.

There is something undoubtedly zen about the space, with nothing but focus on the moving breeze through the oculus on the roof, the disk sky in shades of blue and white, and the collecting of raindrops. These are the interests of the artist Naito, the natural phenomena of water, light and air.

I can feel my senses heightened just by imagining the ‘emptiness’ of the space.

Photography by Iwan Baan.

  1. Derek
    25.12.10 19:23

    I want to go there.

  2. Ricardo Reyna
    26.12.10 07:29

    Whoah I wanna go there now

  3. Robin Lundgren
    26.12.10 17:37

    Very beautiful use of concrete!

  4. up_today_arch
    27.12.10 10:54

    I’ve seen the project and the model on last Biennale in Venice… Now we have a reason visit this island…

  5. Paul PJ Cheng
    29.12.10 12:02

    It’s beautiful when architecture can be inviting enough for people to venture out to somewhere they’d never would have thought about, and to be presented the island itself and its nature. Hope to see you all there!

  6. darrell
    20.01.11 18:32

    if you flipped it upside down and put bowls where the holes are you’d have an awesome skatepark.