I am posting only the pictures from the brochure (you are not allowed in the building with a camera) but really this building is un-photograph-able. It is for this reason that I think it still relatively unknown. In our time architecture has become recognisable by the photograph, a single visual soundbite, but this building doesn't work like that at all.
Instead it is an experience though not a cheap experience, you don't feel like it's a game, or that you are being tricked, it really feels like a profound difficult statement. I am sure it represents the pinnacle of architectural achievement (is there a "gushing" smilie on ppb2?) and everyone should go and see it.
The only building which has come close to this for me was Corbousier's Notre Dame du haut (Ronchamp) but Ando's building is better.
Chichu Art Museum
Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation
3449-1 Naoshima, Kagawa 761-3110 Japan
Tel: +81-(0)87-892-3755
Fax: +81-(0)87-840-8285
