Another fascinating building located in Asia that was worked by Paul Andreu was the Osaka Maritime Museum located in Japan.  This was designed right before the National Grand Theatre of China, which I talked about in blog 6.  It looks like a large dome and it is actually above water, which adds a really cool aspect to the whole structure.  Also since the building is really shiny, when the sun is out the structure looks like it is literally coming out of the sea, which creates a really cool illusion.  The Osaka Maritime Museum started being built in 1998 and was done by the year 2000, so like most of Andreu’s work, it has been done in the last thirty years so all his designs are very recent and modern-like.