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Title	Japan
Creator.Persons	Ando, Tadao, 1941-
Description	Ando's monumental design, at 60m long and 25m high one of the largest wooden buildings in the world, represented an elegant fusion of ancient and modern, and of East and West. Five gently concave bays, penetrated by the convex entrance bridge, are an expression of kinari, natural beauty unadorned by surface embellishment. The 11m high bridge, or Taiko-bashi, which is traditionally associated with the passage from this world to the next, here represented both the crossing from mundane experience to the world of the imagination and the link between East and West made by those who crossed it. Ando employed the post and beams of traditional Japanese architecture, but used timber from Canada and Africa, laminated in a technique pioneered in France and Germany to allow compound posts of almost any size to be constructed. The iroko planks cladding the exterior created a shuttered, introverted quality that implied a dark interior. However a roof of translucent teflon canvas flooded the inner spaces with natural light
Subject.Persons	Ando, Tadao, 1941-
Subject.Events	Exposicion Universal de 1992 (Seville, Spain)
Subject	Exhibition buildings Exhibitions
Location	Spain -- Seville
Title.Series	Expo '92, Seville
Collection Title	Architecture and Urban Planning (1800-present)
Publisher.Location	Oxford, England
Publisher	Icarus UK
Date.Published	c1993
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/archt_copyright.html
Collection information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Full resolution	Volume7\48951905_04.jpg http://0-contentdm.unl.edu.library.unl.edu/fullres/Architecture_1800-_3/Volume7\48951905_04.jpg

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