The Pritzker laureate hopes his modest seven-storey block will “embrace the industrial character of the area”

Rendering of 152 Elizabeth Street by Tadao Ando

How do you judge the renderings of so geometric and other-worldly an architect as Tadao Ando? One of architecture’s best-known Ando photographers, Edmund Sumner, told us last month, “his work has produced some iconic images shot by great photographers from around the world, and so it’s equally a challenge to try to capture something new.”

These mock-ups, which premiered over on Dezeen, of a new block the 72-year-old Japanese architect is building for developers Sumaida + Khurana, are distinct, as they're for Ando’s first large-scale project in New York City.

Rendering of 152 Elizabeth Street by Tadao Ando

While we’re more used to seeing his dwellings lodged on the cliffs of Sri Lanka or mountains in Monterrey, Ando wants this development, at 152 Elizabeth Street “to embrace the industrial character” of lower Manhattan. Just how much genuine industry goes on in the neighbourhood around Elizabeth Street, between Kenmare and Broome, in Nolita, isn’t clear; yet the block’s simple, concrete, glass and steel, certainly looks as if it will add to Manhattan’s architectural make-up....Continue Reading

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