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Ando Gets Some Skin
For Architectural Digest the majority of contemporary architecture remains adamant to digest-ion. So when Tadao Ando wants full exposure in the glossiness of the Digest he needs to soften the blow with glittery walls of platinum-glazed tiles by Olafur Eliasson. AD
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Those tiles are amazing, but there is just WAY too much of them.
Ando is quoted as saying he was "surprised". I think that's a euphemism for "Yikes, what a mistake.".
it's hard to measure their true effect through photographs...but that material, scale and texture do seem to overpower that space / which i believe was intentional at some level;
although i enjoyed seeing a more playful ando, i looked at the concrete wall on the 3rd image of the slideshowed, and drooled a little bit...
Mmmmm..
I love it..So sensual?
Giant. Disco. Ball.
This is not Ando at all; it's Eliasson's response to Ando's stairwell, which Ando spins furiously as his patient collaboration with a flighty, unpredictable artist.
His objective, I assume, was to avoid exactly what's happening: everyone oohing and awwing--or at least talking about--the artwork, not the architecture.
"This is not Ando at all..."
Now I understand. Thanks.
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