Tadao Ando Concrete Wall
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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. 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. 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. 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. Ando concrete dxn 5324x finish is textured and has a very rough surface. Available with matching newedge band for seamless border. 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. 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. Church of the light osaka credit. He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.