Tadao Andos close three-decade building relationship with the Benesse Art Site in western Japan will celebrate a new milestone next spring with the opening of the Naoshima New Museum of Art, his tenth contribution for the cultural destination on Naoshima Island.The scheme sighted the more than 34,000-square-foot museum to carefully integrate its hilltop surroundings, at the peak of which begins a progression down toward the structure that's finished externally with black plaster material reminiscent of burned cedar walls and ends in stacked pebble walls framing views from the Honmura district out onto the Seto Inland Sea.Image rendering courtesy Tadao AndoThe project was meant to showcase both a new permanent collection and rotating exhibitions of art from Asia, adding four galleries and a ground-level caf to the location whose entry sequence draws out further connections between the space, land, and people of the island.Image rendering courtesy Tadao AndoThere are two basement...