Tadao Ando
Ando was born a few minutes before his twin brother in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. At the age of two, his family chose to separate them, and have Tadao live with his grandmother. He worked as a truck driver and boxer before settling on the profession of architect, despite never having formal training in the field. Struck by the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel on a trip to Tokyo as a second-year high school student, he eventually decided to end his boxing career less than two years after graduating from high school to pursue architecture.
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid,(born 31 October 1950) is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004—the first woman to do so—and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterised by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures"[1] with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life".[2] She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
Wang-Shu
Wang Shu was born on 4 November 1963 in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far west. He began to draw and paint as a child, without any formal training in art. Despite the anti-intellectual fervor of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), his mother gave him access to the library and he read widely, from "Pushkin to Lu Xun." As a compromise between art, his passion, and engineering, his parents' recommendation, Wang chose to study architecture at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and received a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1988.
Ando's Work
Church of The Light
The Church of the Light (sometimes called the "Church with Light") is the main chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, a member church of the United Church of Christ in Japan. It was built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. This building is one of the most famous designs of Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Church of the Light
Ibaraki, Japan
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri opened in 2001 with a building designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect, Tadao Ando. The Pulitzer is located at 3716 Washington Boulevard.
Pulitzer Arts Foundation was established in 2001 by Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who had originally sought to create a space in which to install works from their private collection. The Pulitzers reached out to Tadao Ando in the early 1990s and commissioned him to renovate an abandoned automobile factory and showroom in the Grand Center entertainment district of St. Louis.
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
St. Louis, Missouri
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Arts
The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art is a purpose built municipal art gallery in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was opened in 2002.
The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style paintings associated with Hyogo Prefecture, Japanese greatworks in modern era, and contemporary art.
The building of the museum is a modern, concrete construction by famed architect Tadao Ando.
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Arts
Hyogo, Japan
Teshima Arts Museum
The Teshima Art Museum hosts a single piece of artwork and is located on the island of Teshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, in the Seto Inland Sea. It is operated by the Benesse Foundation. The architect is Ryue Nishizawa (co-founder of SANAA). The museum building is made of a freestanding concrete shell, 40 by 60 meters, and 4 meters at its highest point.
The artwork is titled Matrix and was created by sculptor Rei Naito.
Teshima Arts Museum
Teshima, JapanZaha's Work
D'Leedon Condonium
D’Leedon – the distinctive 36-storey condominium prominent for their petering vertical silhouette – is designed by internationally-renowned architect Zaha Hadid.
Located in prime district 10, D’Leedon is a short walk to Farrer Road MRT station. Nearby recreational facilities includes the Singapore Botanic Garden and Bougainvillea Park. Residents can get their necessities at the Empress Road Market and Food Centre or at the shopping centres close by. There is a string of shops, restaurants, and eating establishments at Holland Village, which is in close proximity.
D'Leedon Condonium
Singapore
Dubai Opera House
Before the 2008 property crash hit Dubai, the Dubai Opera House was scheduled to be the cultural centre of the proposed Lagoons district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates with preparatory work underway in anticipation of groundbreaking. This development will accommodate an opera house with a 2,500 seating capacity, an 800-seat playhouse, a 5,000-square-metre (54,000 sq ft) arts gallery, a performing arts school, and a '6-star' themed hotel on a purpose-built island in Dubai Creek. It is also said that it will feature two libraries, an outdoor theatre, and a marina.
Dubai Opera House
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza is a major urban development landmark in Seoul, South Korea designed by Zaha Hadid and Samoo, with a distinctively neofuturistic design characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of elongated structures". The landmark features a walkable park on its roofs, large global exhibition spaces, futuristic retail stores and restored parts of the Seoul fortress.
The DDP has been one of the main reasons for Seoul's designation as World Design Capital in 2010. Construction started in 2009 and it was officially inaugurated on March 21, 2014.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Seoul, Korea
Soho Galaxy
The popularity of Zaha Hadid seems to be permanent, receiving awards and being widely featured in the media. Her buildings already became the contemporary heritage that attracts not only architectural audiences and developers but mainstream media and regular tourists as well. According to a recent RIBA nomination for Beijing’s Galaxy SOHO for the Lubetkin Prize 2013 – the award for architects that play a leading role in delivering visionary thinking about urban issues – Zaha Hadid is a role-model, filling the voids of the present with new, futuristic environments. RIBA’s words are a precise description of her works and contribution to the architectural world.
Soho Galaxy
Beijing, ChinaShu's Work
Ningbo History Museum
Ningbo Museum is designed by Wang Shu, the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012. The design is a conceptual combination of mountains, water and oceans, as the East China Sea has played an important role in the history of Ningbo. Features of Jiangnan residences are integrated into the museum design by decorations made from old tiles and bamboo.
Ningbo History Museum
Ningbo, China
Ceramic House
The small house of one hundred square meters, - a café -, Shu decided to make it a container. Whether it will hold wind or water is completely determined by intuition. Where a design will start is often accidental. For instance, in this case Shu can explain it by the form of an ink stone from the Song Dynasty [960-1279]. The ink stone is made for the function only. His surface is made of two parts. One is comparatively plain and the other is a slope. The plain part is for storing ink and the slope part is for dripping ink.
Ceramic House
Jinhua, China
Five Scattered Houses
The series of five structures that reinterpret the traditional building culture were commissioned in 2004 and completed by 2008 in a 25 hectare park in the center of the Yinzhou New Town, Ningbo District. The series of five structures were completed by 2008 in a 25 hectare park in the center of the Yinzhou New Town, Ningbo District, 250km south of Shanghai.
Five Scattered Houses
Ningbo, China
China Academy of Arts
China Academy of Art is the most influential academy of fine arts with the most complete range of degree offerings and programs of study in China. It houses a diverse pool of artistic talent, has a distinctive structure integrating theory and practice, focuses on human care and social needs, and combines modern technical and cultural disciplines with traditional artistic ones.