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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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.
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Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
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.
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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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Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
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The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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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.