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Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese autodidact architect [1] [2] whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
Omotesando Hills (表参道ヒルズ, Omotesandō hiruzu) is a shopping complex in central Tokyo built in 2005 in a series of urban developments by Mori Building. It occupies a 250-meter stretch of Omotesandō, a shopping and (previously) residential road in Aoyama. It was designed by Tadao Ando, and contains over 130 shops and 38 apartments.
21_21 Design Sight is a museum in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 2007. The museum, a design museum, was created by architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake. "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also a place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that ...
Omotesandō is known as one of the foremost 'architectural showcase' streets in the world, featuring a multitude of fashion flagship stores within a short distance of each other. These include the Louis Vuitton store (Jun Aoki, 2002), Tod's (Toyo Ito, 2004), Dior (SANAA, 2004), Omotesandō Hills (Tadao Ando, 2005) and Gyre (MVRDV, 2007 ...
In one of his latest bouts of questionable behavior, Ye bought a Malibu, California, beach house designed by Pritzker prize–winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando and proceeded to gut it to bomb ...
The one element carried through Tadao Ando's structures is his idolization of the reinforced concrete wall. The importance given to walls is a distinct departure from Modernist architecture. They are usually made of 'in-situ' poured in place concrete. Considerable care is taken to see that the walls are as perfect as technique will allow.
Kenji Imai (architect) 今井兼次: 1895–1963 Tadachika Kurata: 蔵田周忠: 1895–1966 Keiji Morita: 森田慶一: 1895–1983 Kakushi Matsunoi: 松ノ井覚治: 1895–1982 Gonkuro Kume: 久米権九郎: 1895–1965 Harumichi Kitao: 北尾春道: 1896-1973 Sheichiro Nakazawa: 中澤誠一郎: 1896-1986 Akira Uenami: 上浪朗: 1897-1975 ...
Category for the buildings of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. Piccadilly Gardens (10 P)