Many of the works of Tadao Ando base their richness in the relationship of the building with light and nature. In that sense, the Church on the Water, designed in 1985 and built in 1988, is one of its most celebrated achievements, in which nature has been involved in the design of the building.
Ando manages to create a microcosm that combines simply but brilliantly concepts on the profane and the sacred, the artificial and the natural, the enclosed and the exposed, the emptiness and the infinity.
Two expanded views of the temple in Northern Japan:
A serene, spiritual place where nature and architecture united in a harmony/marriage. Go see this place with your own eyes.
Such a gorgeous view. I’d love to go there just to take pictures… let alone worship!
I could see myself getting married at a place like these. Completely serene. I’d be at peace with myself and the world around me. Glorious.