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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He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.
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.
The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
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Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete.
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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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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The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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