Welcome to Ando-ville – I’m sure there must be worse places in the world to live if volumetric formalism and concrete minimalism is your thing… There are, of course, other architectural firms at work in Osaka, but an Ando building just makes such a fine photograph.

A series of images selected from a  Flickr keyword search: architecture/Osaka

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Suntory Museum, Osaka, Tadao Ando (Images by troutfactory)

Umeda Sky Building. Osaka, Hiroshi Hara & Atelier (Images by troutfactory and oni)

Toyonaka Municipal Hospital, Osaka, K lto Architects and Engineers (Image by troutfactory)

Azuma House, Osaka, Tado Ando (Image by mello yello)

National Museum of Art Osaka by akaitori National Museum of Art, Osaka, César Pelli (Image by akaitori) 

Office Building, Osaka (image by dimitridf)

Namba Parks, Osaka, Jon Jerde.jpg (Images by gosh., El Fotopakismo, Purple Cloud)

Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum, Osaka, Tadao Ando (Images by ::stromberg::)

?? Image by Tonio0707

Capsule Hotel, Osaka (Image by © Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS Avi_Abrams)