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TOYOTA CITY MUSEUM / Japan
TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. / JapanFurther images
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DFA Design for Asia Awards 2025 l Gold Award l Spatial Design l Culture & Public Spaces
Intersection of Memory
At the heart of Toyota City, a luminous new museum redefines the relationship between community, culture, and design. Its architecture unfolds as a composition of glass, timber, and light—an elegant dialogue between technological precision and human warmth. The vast, 7.8-metre-tall glass cube anchors the central exhibition hall, a transparent vessel where layers of nature, history, and industry converge. Inside, slender structural columns double as an earthquake-resistant core, while anti-reflective films and modular lighting reveal each object’s quiet poetry. A sweeping timber arcade, the En-nichi Area, extends this spirit of openness. Built from locally sourced cedar, its 90-metre canopy forms a civic stage for festivals, workshops, and resident-led exhibitions—a living archive of collective creation. Beneath its rhythmic louvers and soft daylight, the building breathes with the pulse of its city, merging environmental intelligence with tactile intimacy. Architecture here becomes both vessel and memory—a place where history, people, and landscape meet in perpetual renewal.
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