Tag Results for: Tadao Ando
April 28th 2010
‘New Architecture in Japan’ by Naomi Pollock and Yuki & Edmund Sumner
With a comprehensive overview of more than 100 projects built or designed in Japan over the past 10 years, ‘New Architecture in Japan’ is an informative and beautifully illustrated book. Photographer Edmund Sumner manages to capture not only the power of architectural space, but he always allows a glimpse of the surrounding urban landscape by…
April 12th 2010
VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron
Have a look at these photographs of the striking VitraHaus, a project by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Located at the Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, this five-storey building consists of 12 stacked volumes with pitched roofs covered in charcoal stucco. Each gabled unit is glazed, and cantilevers outwards up to five metres, creating the impression…
