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Garden of Fine Arts
Tadao Ando
Kyoto, Japan

• Japan
• Cultural

The project was conceived as a contemporary, volumetric version of a stroll garden. The open-air Fine Arts Museum is situated below ground level to keep the view from the adjacent Botanical Gardens towards the Higashiyama mountains intact.

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Futuro - Tomorrow's House from Yesterday
By Marko Home & Mika Taanila

This plastic, ellipsoid, portable holiday hideaway is among the most striking samples of Utopian space-age design. Publisher: Desura

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Architecture Now! 2
By Philip Jodidio

The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. Publisher: Taschen

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Barragán Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour
By Daniéle Pauly. In association with Jérome Habersetzer

Barragán's architecture is infused with the multiple influences of his travels, encounters and readings.

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Studios by the Sea
By Bob Colacello

Vanity Fair correspondent Bob Colacello and photographer Jonathan Becker go inside the renovated barns, split-shingled cottages, and minimalist mansions of the modern-day artist colony. Photographs by Jonathan Becker. Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc.