<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.kanazawa21.jp/en/ </Td> </Tr> <P> The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan . </P> <P> The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004 . In October 2005, one year after its opening the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors . </P> <P> The Museum is located in the center of Kanazawa, near Kenroku - en garden and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art . The building has a circular form, with a diameter of 112.5 metres . This shape aims to keep the appearance of the overall building volume low, to mitigate the scale of the project and allows access from multiple points of entry . The transparency of the building further manifests the wish to avoid the museum being perceived as a large, introverted mass . </P>

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