Venice

Tadao Ando spent fifteen years turning three of François Pinault’s historic shells — a Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, a seventeenth-century Dorsoduro customs house and an eighteenth-century Parisian wheat exchange — into the same room. The Tadao Ando Pinault Collection lineage runs from April 2006 to May 2021 and resolves, in all three cases, to a single architectural move: a free-standing concrete volume inside preserved masonry, with light arriving only where Ando lets it. Palazzo Grassi was the rehearsal, Punta della Dogana the proof, and the Bourse de Commerce the closing argument. ...