Tag 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.

04-01-2017

Kengo Kuma designs the Naver Connect One institute in Korea

Kengo Kuma & Associates designed the Naver’s Connect One training instituted in Chuncheon-si (Korea) to integrate the construction with the landscape. Connect One won the Korean Architecture Award (2015) and the LEED-NC PLATINUM V2009 (2015).

28-10-2016

Kengo Kuma Woven exhibition at Galeria Jaroslava Fragnera in Prague

Kengo Kuma’s first exhibition in Central Europe is coming up in Prague. The Japanese architect’s work is showcased in an exhibition entitled “Kengo Kuma / Woven” at Galeria Jaroslava Fragnera until November 20 2016.

21-07-2016

Brick by Brick LEGO at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

Adam Reed Tucker interprets contemporary constructions such as the Burj Khalifa, marvels of the past such as the Colosseum or triumphs of the imagination like Cinderella’s castle in the Disney film in LEGO at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry until February 2017.