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Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. - Tadao Ando (Beliefnet Daily Inspiration newsletter) Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb He deserves paradise who can make his companions laugh. -The Qur'an (Beliefnet Buddhist Wisdom newsletter) Real peace will arise spontaneously When your mind becomes free Of attachments,...
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Home Design Find (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Written by Keiji Ashizawa Translated by Hannah Hernandez Hiroshi Araki & Koji Nagasawa AN Architects is an architectural design office which was formed by two architects who studied at Tadao Ando’s office. It was formed in Osaka in 2005. The booths were created for galleries and museums, as you can tell by the photos. They were created to be [...]
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Tadao Ando's new Stone Hill Center sits on the side of a gentle hill in the Berkshires with grass licking its concrete edges like water lapping against the shores of a quiet pond. It is a building of simple elements, a box made from the Japanese architect's minimalist mater...
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Poets & Madmen (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Tadao Ando Saw my SECOND Tadao Ando building today at Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. Despite more flashy architecture on the campus, his work stood out by it's simplicity, the precision of it's design, it's harmonious co-existence with it's environment and purpose and it's total absence of self consciousness. Next to it, Frank Gehry's factory wing, lodge and museum buildings looked like the...
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architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
[ Image: Shibuya Station, by Tadao Ando . Photo credit: Satoshi Minakawa ] Wallpaper* has launched the 2008 edition of it’s ‘ Architects Directory ‘, featuring 50+ of their ‘newly sanctioned’ firms+practices from all over the world. Check it out for info, photos, and links hippin’ you to great designers from all over. Don’t sleep. Some of AMNP’s favs: - Super Colossal from Australia [yeah, THAT Super...
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www.slamxhype.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Rizzoli New York recently released a book on the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth designed by one of the most… Read More
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Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Architect Tadao Ando’s new Shibuya Station extension is nearly completed. “Ando’s design is based on what he calls a ‘chichusen,’ or underground spaceship. Commuters board the buried flying saucer near the top of the atrium and are carried down the...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Williamstown Art Conservation Center had a great stroke of luck when its landlord, the Clark Art Institute, decided to boot it off the museum's bucolic campus in the Berkshires. It has now ended up in what is arguably the most architecturally distinguished conservation facility in America, designed by world-famous architect Tadao Ando.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
"The new 32,000-square-foot building includes 12,000 square feet of state-of-the-art workspace, scientific labs and storage facilities. There are also education and meeting spaces and two small exhibition galleries for Clark-organized focus shows. Michael Conforti, the Clark's longtime director, hopes that the building will be more than a destination for art and architecture aficionados."...
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electro^plankton (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Japan's AU KDDI just launched their "art meets innovation show" in Harajuku called the Mobile in Forest Exhibition. Various artists have showcased their innovative representations of the cell phone. Housed in the now famous futurist gallery space designed by Tadao Ando (formerly occupied by HHStyle ), the show features a polyurethane rubber “socket-deer” and a “HOLDING BEAR CHARGER” allowing you to...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Stone HIll Center, Ando, 2008/ All Photos: RICHARD LACAYO I was up in Williamstown, Ma. last week to catch an early look at the Stone Hill Center, another splendid little exercise in High Modernism, 21st-century Japanese style, by Tadao Ando, this one on the campus of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. It uses gestures and elements that Ando recombines all the time, but we have very few...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
A blissful exhibit of late-19th- and early-20th-century paintings and a serene new building by Tadao Ando, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness." More...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
It hits me the moment the lift doors glide open: not the sleek, monochrome corridor or the grey stones artfully engraved with room numbers – but the uplifting aroma of sweet orange that infuses the air.
