A portion of mountain atop the museum.

The museum itself is largely underground in order to minimize disturbance to the natural beauty of the park. It has an underground volume of appoximately 165x25 feet.

Tadao Ando's outdoor art museum.

An imposing flight of steps offers a majestic approach to the abstraction of Pei's museum. The Miho Museum was commissioned by the Japanese religious order, Shinji Shumeikai. It was conceived to be a "symbol of heaven on ...

For Ando even concrete can make drama out of a stair, a wall, and a bench.

It's obviously not just a wall because there is not the inprint of the square forms from the concrete plus the drama of the viewing platform.

An art installation within the two story underground entrance room.

No expense has been spared for this museum, as is obvious from the lavish use of marble on its interior.

Built in a national park, the desire was to disturb the natural setting as little as possible with the result that 80% of the museums exhibition space is underground with much natural light being accessed through skylights. ...