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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.
Guaranteeing individual privacy something which the traditional houses did not provide and creating a residential space which allowed.
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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.
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Light enters from behind the altar from a cross cut in the concrete wall that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and horizontally from wall to wall aligning perfectly with the joints in the concrete.
Walls are stark but as usual are rescued from oppression by the quality of the concrete work and by ando s masterful manipulation of light.
There is little doubt that anyone in the world of architecture will not be aware of his.
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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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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.
In addition to the vast windows long slender skylights recessed into the ceiling on either side of each space flood the interiors with natural light but attention to the creation of shadow ensures that.
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The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
Tadao ando of osaka japan is a man who is at the pinnacle of success in his own country.
Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.
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In 1995 the pritzker architecture prize was formally presented to him within the walls of the grand trianon palace at versailles france.
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Church of the light was built in 1989 in the city of ibaraki osaka japan and is possibly one of tadao s most famous designs.