Tadao Ando Hompuku-ji Tempie Awajishima, Japan, 1989-90
The entraoce to this tempie leads the vi$itor to the curvmg concrete wali seen to the left, beforc he discover? the artificial pond and the stairs, which lead down into the tempie itself. There, a repre-sentation of Buddha sits, with its back to the setting sun.
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