Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

All important principles of Kurokawa can be found in the exhibition wing of the Van Gogh Museum. For example, the symbiosis between environment and architecture, and between Japanese and European culture. It is a building clad in natural stone and titanium, made of concrete, half-buried in the ground. In response to Rietveld’s cube, Kurokawa opted for asymmetry: for example, the building has the shape of an ellipse and the box-shaped print cabinet is rotated a turn relative to the axis of the wing.