21_21 Design Sight

This guide to 21 21 Design Sight in Tokyo traces a decades-long conversation between designer Issey Miyake and architect Tadao Ando about a museum devoted to design itself, which finally opened in 2007. It covers how Ando answered Miyake's idea of a single folded piece of cloth in steel, bending one continuous 54-meter roof by hand, and why he hid most of the building underground. Look at how the roof slopes almost to the ground, like fabric dropped mid-fold.