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Awaji Yumebutai Botanical Garden
It is a work by Tadao Ando built in 1997 Hyogo, Japan to recover the devastated nature after the 1995 earthquake. The project has a hotel, a conference center, a small amphitheater, restaurants and squares. However, the most highlighted is «the 100 -step garden», a set of square structures decorated with flowers, placed on a slope behind the hotel and distributed on several levels.
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Hyogo Museum of Modern Art
This museum in Kobe, Japan, was built in 2001 as well as the Waterfront Plaza as part of the reconstruction of that city after the earthquake occurred in 1995. With a pedestrian scale and a rough stone arc in the middle, this work consists of three parallel rectangles separated by exterior squares, which function as art galleries. But without a doubt, the greatest attraction is the view of the museum: on the one hand, the landscape of the city and, on the other, the surrounding mountains.
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Chichu Art Museum
Another characteristic of Ando's work is harmony with nature. Therefore, some of his works such as this museum in 2004 in Naoshima, Japan, were built mostly underground, not to alter the natural landscape. Within his galleries, the Chichu Museum of Art houses works by Claude Monet, James Turrell and Walter de María, among other recognized artists.
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Hill of the Buddha
I'm built this impressive work in 2015, as part of the Makomanoi Takino cemetery in Sapporo, Japan. In order to protect the 13 -meter high Buddha statue and 1,500 tons, this architect decided to build a roundabout and a tunnel embedded in the lavender flower hill, creating an effect of a vivid spatial sequence. Thus, visitors can contemplate the Buddha whose head is surrounded by a halo of sky at the end of the tunnel.