Ando Underground

My first book on Architecture… which I received by my godfather some… well too long ago, was a book about the work of Tadao Ando. I’ve been a admirer ever since and the Chichu Museum just gave my admiration for his work a big fresh up!

The museum, which is completely submerged was opened by the Fukutake Art Museum Foundation on the island of Naoshima in 2004, housing just eight works by three artists: James Turrell, Walter De Maria and Claude Monet.  The Monet room was built according to the size and dimensions of the Fukatoke family’s five Water Lilies paintings. With white plaster walls and a floor of 700,000 milky white marble cubes, filtered daylight enters through the high ceiling and the water lilies – some of the most reproduced icons of Western art from the last century –  find new life amongst the softly glowing, muted atmosphere.

via Big in Japan