Tag Kengo Kuma

23-08-2019

The 2019 Art Fund Museum of the Year is the St Fagans National Museum of History

The winner of the 2019 Art Fund Museum of the Year, the annual prize awarded to the best museums in the United Kingdom, was announced on 3rd July 2019. The prize was awarded to the St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff, and the shortlisted museums included the HMS Caroline in Belfast, the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and the V&A Dundee in Scotland.

27-05-2019

LABORATORIES OF SPECTACULAR

“Can the human mind master what the human mind has made?” --Paul Valéry.

11-09-2018

Kengo Kuma V&A Dundee, Scotland

The 15th September will see the official public opening of the new museum of Dundee, in Scotland, the V&A Dundee designed by Kengo Kuma. Photos and videos created with drones and recently publicised, show brand new views of the building designed by the Japanese architect and inspired by the Scottish cliffs.

27-04-2018

A tree-like structure for Kengo Kuma's Coeda House

A house with a wooden central structure and glass walls overlooks the ocean as if it were an artifical tree, with invisible joints between its branches designed by Kengo Kuma

16-02-2018

Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee due to open in September

Scotland’s first design museum is due to open on September 15, 2018, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, who first visited the completed construction on February 9.

19-06-2017

Aluminium sunbreaks on Kengo Kuma’s Shanghai Soho Building

Kengo Kuma has built a classic skyscraper in Shanghai with aluminium sunbreaks designed to look like origami, with shapes recalling silent columns of rising incense smoke.

03-03-2017

7132 Hotel Vals, designer architecture

A stay at the 7132 Hotel in Vals, a town in the Swiss Canton of Grisons is synonymous with a close dialogue both with nature and with the architecture of some great contemporary architects.

01-02-2017

Kengo Kuma: new Hongkou Soho offices in Shanghai

Kengo Kuma has given the city of Shanghai his new reflection on the theme of the skyscraper. In his recent Hongkou Soho office tower, Kuma experiments with the concept of architecture as dress, in search of dynamism and lightness. The structure of the Hongkou Soho is covered with an aluminium mesh of vertical elements.