Tadao Ando, Lunder Center at Stone Hill #2008Architecture Williamstown, MA “I want to create intense yet quiet buildings where the voice of their creator can be heard, and to realize spaces ... that promote conversations with natural materials, where one can feel light, air, and rain,” says architect Tadao Ando, designer of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Since its completion in 2008, the Lunder Center at Stone Hill has fulfilled all of Ando’s goals. Conceived as a sanctuary in the woods to be discovered at the end of a winding path, the Lunder Center is a contemplative retreat with two small galleries and a seasonal café that affords magnificent views of the Taconic Range, the Green Mountains, and Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts... The Lunder Center at Stone Hill's steel and concrete block construction is partially clad with red cedar boards that are weathering to a soft gray, complementing the concrete that was poured into forms lined with pine boards etched with acid to accentuate the pattern of the grain.' The Clark http://ift.tt/2lIWe0s Photography Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism. Flickr http://ift.tt/2lc9Uy5