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1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

Church of the Light interior view

Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

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Church of the Light

Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

Credit: Bergmann

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

Comparison

Field	Church of the Light 1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1989	1980
Place	Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	14°C · 13.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind	12°C · 13.9h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Church	9 works in corpus
Architects	Tadao Ando	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Tadao Ando Architect & Associates	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	religious building chapel	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	concrete glass	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Tadao Ando: Complete Works	No linked books yet.