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Tadao ando concrete wall.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
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.
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.
Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.
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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.
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The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
Ando concrete dxn 5324x finish is textured and has a very rough surface.
Church of the light osaka credit.
Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
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.
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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.
Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete.
Is there a project that you feel encapsulates the key principles you ve tried to explore throughout your career.