ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/101260/ad-classics-church-of-the-light-tadao-ando Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0000 Andrew Kroll https://www.archdaily.com/101260/ad-classics-church-of-the-light-tadao-ando In the small town of Ibaraki, 25km outside of Osaka, Japan, stands one of Tadao Ando’s signature architectural works, the Church of the Light.  The Church of the Light embraces Ando’s philosophical framework between nature and architecture through the way in which light can define and create new spatial perceptions equally, if not more so, as that of his concrete structures.  Completed in 1989, the Church of the Light was a renovation to an existing Christian compound in Ibaraki.  The new church was the first phase to a complete redesign of the site – later completed in 1999 – under Ando’s design aesthetic.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/64612/residence-in-hozumidai-mitsutomo-matsunami Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Nico Saieh https://www.archdaily.com/64612/residence-in-hozumidai-mitsutomo-matsunami This is a mass-produced type ready-built house often developed on a large scale, and as such, has the advantage of producing entire housing of rows.In many cases, as the appearance is coordinated at the designation of the owner, rows of houses that do not necessity match esthetically are created.

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