Poetry of concrete and light

Tadao Ando's 1993 Vitra Conference Pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany:

525600 minutes*

Nothing portrays the flow of time better than passages of light and shadow.  Some light/shadow moments over this past year ...

Francine Savard at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, January:

Rebecca Partridge at Art First Projects, London, March:

Pinakothek der Moderne, München, July:

Walter De Maria at Pinakothek der Moderne, München, July:

Tadao Ando's Conference Pavilion at Vitra Design, Weil am Rhein, July:

Olafur Eliasson at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, July:

Midtown Toronto, September:

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery, New York, November:

*525600 minutes = 1 (non-leap) year ... referencing the lyrics of Seasons Of Love from the Broadway musical Rent.  That was a great show!

Langen Foundation

Monday means that most art galleries are closed.  I did go to Langen Foundation near Neuss just outside Duesseldorf to see Takehito Koganezawa's installations  No photography was allowed though.  Actually, only three pieces of his works were shown.  I wanted to see more ...

I was happy to see Tadao Ando's architecture again.  He completed Langen Foundation in 2004.  Nice interplay of light and shadow.

Like Ando, light plays an important role in Koganezawa's works.

Vitra

Another architecture day...

The campus of Vitra Design just outside Basel in Weil am Rhein Germany has probably the highest concentration of contemporary star architecture in the world.  There is so much here to see.  I joined a tour of the campus in order to see all the buildings in close range.  I was there for six hours and still reluctant to leave ...

Getting the most of the best to the greatest number of people for the least. - Charles Eames

Frank Gehry's 1989 Vitra Design Museum:

Zaha Hadid's 1993 Fire Station:

Tadao Ando's 1993 Conference Pavilion:

Richard Buckminster Fuller patented, Thomas C. Howard designed Dome, 2000:

Herzog & de Meuron's 2010 VitraHaus:

There are also buildings by Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and SANAA (construction in progress) but they are not open to the public.