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Tadao Ando on Awaji Island

Awaji Island is two hours train from Kyoto in Japan. Here Ando built a conference centre, hotel and memorial near the epicentre of the 1995 Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake as well as a Water Temple. Both projects use reflection pools in water but as ever for Ando the truly sacred material is concrete.

An out-take from my forthcoming ‘Water and Civilisation’ project.