Tag Kengo Kuma

03-10-2012

Kuma: Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

Kengo Kuma goes back to the soul of Tokyo’s Asakusa district to design a tower building that seems to be the product of overlapping a series of traditional houses. Wood is the material which defines the façades, alluding to the Japanese building tradition in a contemporary way.

21-09-2012

NOUVELLES ARCHITECTURES, FRAC exhibition, Paris

An exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of FRAC, Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain (regional contemporary art funds).

11-04-2012

Kuma: GC Prostho Museum Research Center

Kengo Kuma creates a building using a system of interlocking wooden elements named Cidori after a traditional Japanese game. The design inspires the plan for the building, and the result is a unique work with a bold graphic impact: contemporary architecture brings together different arts.

12-03-2012

KENGO KUMA, Yusuhara Marche

Kengo Kuma’s building is a complex including a small hotel with 15 rooms and a covered area for sale of local products containing strong references to Japanese building traditions.

03-11-2011

Proposal for Taipei City Museum of Art combines sustainability and connectivity

The design for Green Cell by

27-09-2011

Kazuyo Sejima, Kengo Kuma - CERSAIE 2011

A meeting with Kengo Kuma and a Lectio magistralis by Kazuyo Sejima are among the key attractions at this year’s CERSAIE, scheduled for September 20 through 24 2011 at Bologna Fiere.

23-02-2010

Museum of Kanayama Castle Ruin: Kengo Kuma

In Japan’s Museum of Kanayama Castle Ruin, Kengo Kuma weaves a decorative motif of stone to lighten the building’s cement volumes. The geometric composition of the modules embraces the outer walls, inner walls, ceilings and dividing walls to give the architecture an identity of its own.

07-12-2009

World Building of the Year Award 2009: first prize goes to Peter Rich Architects

The Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa has won the World Building of the Year award at the 2009 World Architecture Festival Awards.