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Tokyo Sea Life Park

Tokyo Sea Life Park is a public aquarium located in Kasai Rinkai Park, Edogawa Ward, Tokyo. Its predecessor was the Ueno Aquarium in the Ueno Zoo. The building was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. The aquarium is accredited as a museum-equivalent facility under the Museum Act of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

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1989

Rinkaichō, Rinkaichō, Japan

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Yoshio Taniguchi

1937-2024 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Role: lead architect

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Yoshio Taniguchi was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous ph…

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Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Role: designer

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