Kyosuke Takano, Jun Takahashi, Shuhei Seta (NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD)

This museum, located on the former site of the Sumitomo family’s Azabu villa, is a single-story building integrated with the city’s greenery. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the museum expanded and renovated, adding a lecture room, café, and exhibition rooms. The extension’s exterior walls were recreated using original construction methods to harmonize with the existing structure. Glass walls in the café and other areas bring liveliness and openness to the museum’s robust character. The exhibition rooms, now calm spaces with black as the main color, have transformed the museum into a facility for cultural exchange.