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Tadao ando concrete wall.
Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
Carving a cruciform into a reinforced concrete wall evokes such a pure feeling of spirituality it seems ludicrous it hadn t been done before 1989.
Is there a project that you feel encapsulates the key principles you ve tried to explore throughout your career.
Tadao ando presented a cement box in the middle of a row of dilapidated wooden houses of which there are masses in the central areas of osaka and created a highly self sufficient living space within that box.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
Seen from below where the dark stone base and wall is more prominent the blank concrete façade with its narrow vertical slits and pseudo openings resembles a cubic spyglass.
The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.
Tadao ando and the concept of the wall with the designs of azuma house in 1979 and koshino house in 1980 one of the most important traits of the japanese architect s artistic philosophy of composition emerges that is the wall.
The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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Ando concrete dxn 5324x finish is textured and has a very rough surface.
Church of the light osaka credit.
Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.
Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete.
Sitting right on the beach in malibu calif a distinctive architectural concrete home designed by pritzker prize winning japanese architect tadao ando is coming on the market for 75 million.