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Mori Art Museum: art within everyone’s reach

Seamless design, ECLISSE steps outdoors

ECLISSE introduces Syntesis Areo Outdoor, extending the sleekness of its flush-to-wall system to exterior applications. Robust and adaptable, it reimagines technical access points as integrated design features, ensuring a continuous aesthetic flow between interior and exterior spaces.

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“We want people to come and visit the museum maybe after work, for dinner or during their lunchtime. And to talk about it. We want this new structure to provoke a reaction among the city dwellers. A bit like throwing a stone into a pond”. This is how Yoshiko Mori sums up the philosophy behind the brand new Mori Art Museum, of which she is a patron along with her husband, the Japanese construction tycoon Minoru Mori. From tomorrow, their “creature” will dominate the city of Tokyo from above in the Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills, the new district created by the Mori Building Company.

It aims to become a point of reference in the city for modern and contemporary art, like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate in London and the Metropolitan in New York as well as a platform and springboard for emerging and already known artists.

Directing it is the Englishman David Elliott, former director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, confirming what has been expressed by the financial backers: “The museum will act as an interface between contemporary art, which is in a constant state of change, and a broad audience”.

Foreigners also designed the space – 3 thousand square metres occupying the top two floors of the skyscraper (52nd and 53rd) -: the Richard Gluckman practice in New York.

18.10.2003
Inaugurazione Mori Art Museum
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
6-10-1 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150 Japan
T +81-364046100
http://www.mori.art.museum/plug.html
The Roppongi Hills, inaugurated in April 2003; this is the largest private urban project in Japan: eleven hectares containing a mix of contemporary architecture (Mori Tower, Grand Hyatt Hotel Tokyo, more than 200 shops and restaurants and residential blocks) and traditional Japanese buildings (a Buddhist temple and a Japanese garden). It has been called Tokyo’s Rockefeller Center. Courtesy of the Mori Art Museum
The Roppongi Hills, inaugurated in April 2003; this is the largest private urban project in Japan: eleven hectares containing a mix of contemporary architecture (Mori Tower, Grand Hyatt Hotel Tokyo, more than 200 shops and restaurants and residential blocks) and traditional Japanese buildings (a Buddhist temple and a Japanese garden). It has been called Tokyo’s Rockefeller Center. Courtesy of the Mori Art Museum

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