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Church on the Water: Exterior · DSC03433
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Church on the Water: Exterior · DSC03447
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Church on the Water: Exterior
3/6 · ExteriorPhoto: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN · CC BY 2.0 · source
Church on the Water: Exterior · Church on the Water by Tadao Ando (1988), located outside of Sapporo, Japan
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Church on the Water: Interior
5/6 · InteriorPhoto: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN · CC BY 2.0 · source
Church on the Water: Interior
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Religious · Late modernism

Church on the Water

Tadao Ando · Tomamu, Japan · 1988

Key featuresA glass wall slides fully open onto a shallow pool holding a steel cross against the forest.

Architect
Tadao Ando
Place
Tomamu, Japan
Year
1988
Typology
Religious
Movement
Late modernism
Region
East Asia
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