New Design Platform in Tokyo

21_21 Design Sight, a new design platform will open March 30, 2007 in Tokyo.
The directors are three designers: Issey Miyake, Taku Satoh, and Naoto Fukasawa, three designers each working in different mediums (fashion, graphic and industrial design) are the main driving force behind 21_21 Design Sight.

Tadao Ando is the architect of the new building

It will be not so much a museum as a research center for design, a place for thinking about design, and a place where things are actually made. The aim is to share views and ideas with the many parties involved in design, starting with designers and including companies, craftsmen and engineers, as well as consumers, and to launch a movement to foster interest in, and greater understanding of design.