As the fourth project with Tadao Ando, amanasalto is presenting ANDO BOX IV, a portfolio dedicated to the origin of architecture by Tadao Ando.

This portfolio highlights on two projects the Urban Egg and the Church of the Light, which serve as the new reference points in the context of Ando’s architecture, and the prints were produced with amanasalto’s cutting-edge technology and artisan skills. In addition, the portfolio includes handwritten drawings of Punta della Dogana and Bourse de Commerce with a three-dimensional model of Urban Egg.

The Urban Egg, and the Church of the Light. The former, a project Ando proposed of his own volition; the latter, a church situated in an ordinary suburb. Putting aside the fact that their timing coincided, everything else about them – the backgrounds and the situations surrounding them – is different. They do, however, share one point in common; these projects allowed Ando to challenge the limits of his imagination, and it is for such a reason that they have special significance to him. The structures serve as a new point of reference in the context of his architecture.

The Punta della Dogana, a renovation and extension project completed in Venice in 2009, together with the Bourse de Commerce, another revitalization endeavor with the same client currently in progress in Paris – both trace their origins to the egg and the light that Ando discovered at the end of the 1980s.