Tag Kengo Kuma

22-07-2016

Marseilles and the waterfront: urban conversion strategies.

A pedestrian itinerary starting out in the centre of Marseilles, beginning with Norman Foster’s mirror pavilion, and taking us to the outskirts of the city to see Zaha Hadid’s skyscraper. A walk along the city’s converted waterfront, a wide-ranging urban project including buildings and public spaces.

20-04-2016

Kengo Kuma designs Towada City Plaza community centre

After winning a competition organised by the municipality of Towada, Kengo Kuma built Towada City Plaza with the intention of attracting interest and attention back to the centre of the Japanese city. Kengo Kuma’s Towada City Plaza project is already famous for its wooden playground inspired by the hilly landscape.

14-03-2016

China’s best skyscrapers: The CTBUH China Tall Building Award

The China International Exchange Committee for Tall Buildings (CITAB) and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) have announced the list of winners of the first China Tall Building Award.

21-01-2016

Tokyo replaces Zaha Hadid: Kengo Kuma will design the Olympic Stadium

Just before Christmas the Japanese government announced its decision to replace Zaha Hadid’s project, which had won the design competition but was then rejected because of the high cost of its construction, with the plan by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for the new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.

15-01-2016

Zaha Hadid's architecture

Zaha Hadid's architecture is loved and hated, considered an example of avant-garde architecture or of design for its own sake, detached from its context, objects of sculptural beauty which are expensive to build and maintain. Here are the architect's latest new projects, presented in 2015.

30-11-2015

Conran and Partners design Futako Tamagawa in Tokyo

Futako Tamagawa is the first project in Japan to achieve LEED ND Gold Standard (Pre-Certified Plan).

30-07-2015

The winning design for the new Science Centre at Città della Scienza in Naples

On the 7th July the winning design was announced for the new Science Centre at Città della Scienza in Naples: the joint proposal by Stige & Partners, Icaro, Dinamicamente Architetti, Nicola Marchetti, Alfredo Postiglione, Salvatore De Lucia, Valerio Ciotola and Andrea Guazzieri. The Città della Scienza was badly damaged in a fire on 4th March 2013.

17-07-2015

Architects, Architectures and Projects from Japan the best of the week

The Archi Depot Tokyo exhibition at Triennale di Milano and the pavilion and national day of Japan at Expo Milano 2015 offer an excellent starting point for looking at architecture in Japan presented recently in Floornature.