When Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando was in Chicago on Oct. 10, he took out a blue marker and made sketches of his buildings on the walls of a new exhibition gallery, right next ...

WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.— Japanese architect Tadao Ando has built an international reputation for designs that are harmonious with natural settings and sympathetic to surrounding structures. In Texas, Ando ...

Tadao Ando contributed a smooth concrete cylindrical space to the multistory structure. (Patrick Tournebœuf/Tendance Floue pour la collection Pinault, Paris) The building’s iconic dome was thoroughly ...

Rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West has reportedly purchased one of the only private residences in the U.S. designed by renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Sold for $57.3 million, the minimalist ...

Concrete, a material commonly used in the construction industry, is made of a binder combined with aggregates (or gravels), water, and certain additives. Its origins reach back as far as Ancient Egypt ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a bustling city that is best discovered at a leisurely pace. By Jason Farago The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect ...

Wrightwood 659 is a new venue which officially opened over the weekend in Lincoln Park with an exhibition examining French architect Le Corbusier’s important influence on Japanese architect Tadao Ando ...

Let’s say Frank Gehry represents one end of the architectural spectrum, the shiny, exuberant, walls-that-do-the-hula end. The man on the opposite side–the serene, economical, subdued side–would have ...

A slab of concrete and a Bulgari timepiece may not seem like a natural fit, but the unlikely mixture has resulted in a spectacular horological design. And it’s all thanks to Tadao Ando. The acclaimed ...

Courtesy of Flickr user Flemming Ibsen under CC BY-NC 2.0 Religion, in one form or another, has formed the core of human society for much of our history. It therefore stands to reason that religious ...

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake. By Ted Loos and Noriko ...