Kengo Kuma designs his first ever trainer for Asics
For his first footwear design, architect Kengo Kuma has created a trainer in collaboration with Japanese sports brand Asics that draws on the craft of bamboo knitting. More
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Kengo Kuma combines bamboo with carbon fibre to create "material for the future"
Bamboo and carbon fibre can be used together to build earthquake-proof architecture, says Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose Bamboo Ring is installed at the V&A for London Design Festival. More
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Kengo Kuma's stacked-timber Odunpazari Modern Museum opens in Turkey
The Odunpazari Modern Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, has opened its doors in Eskisehir, northwest Turkey. More
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Kengo Kuma designs building for Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has teamed up with Starbucks on a coffee house featuring origami-like ceilings and trails of cherry blossoms, designed to offer customers a more theatrical experience. More
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Kengo Kuma designs packaging for hotel brand Aman's skincare range
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has designed natural-looking packaging for the first skincare range from luxury hotel brand Aman. More
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Terracotta tiles create shelves in Kengo Kuma-designed Camper store in Barcelona
Concave terracotta tiles form a scallop pattern across the walls of this Barcelona shop, which Kengo Kuma has designed for footwear brand Camper. More
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Kengo Kuma stacks shipping containers to create drive-through Starbucks in Taiwan
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has stacked 29 recycled shipping containers to make a Starbucks coffee shop alongside a shopping centre in Hualien, Taiwan. More
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Kengo Kuma divides Archives Antoni Clavé with mesh screens dappled with paper pulp
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé's paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. More
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V&A Dundee is "a conversation between nature and artefact" says Kengo Kuma
In this exclusive video interview, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflects on the relationship between his V&A Dundee museum building and the sea. More
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V&A Dundee shows "new way of designing big buildings" that will be used for Tokyo stadium, says Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma says the new engineering techniques developed to meet the technical challenges of the V&A Dundee are being used to build his Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium. More
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Kengo Kuma's V&A Dundee photographed at sunrise and sundown by Ste Murray
This slideshow of photographs offers a detailed look around the Kengo Kuma-designed V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum, which opens this week. More
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Kengo Kuma unveils cliff-like V&A Dundee museum
The first images of the completed V&A Dundee, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, have been revealed ahead of the museum's opening this weekend. More
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Dassault Systèmes presents pollution-absorbing architecture by Kengo Kuma and Daan Roosegaarde
Kengo Kuma and Daan Roosegaarde are among the architects and designers presenting proposals to tackle air pollution, in this movie Dezeen filmed for Dassault Systèmes. More
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Kengo Kuma to convert Porto slaughterhouse into cultural centre
Kengo Kuma and OODA have paired up to transform a disused slaughterhouse in Porto into a cultural centre, which will feature art galleries and a library beneath a sweeping ceramic-clad roof. More
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Dassault Systèmes teams up with leading designers to tackle air pollution
A Milan design week exhibition by Dassault Systèmes will showcase concepts to reduce air pollution by designers including Kengo Kuma, as revealed in this movie Dezeen produced for the 3D software brand. More
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Kengo Kuma to build aquatics centre and harbour bath in Copenhagen
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is designing an aquatics centre on Copenhagen's harbour, featuring indoor pools framed by brick pyramids and outdoor baths that terrace down to meet the sea. More
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Kengo Kuma designs Japan's first Ace Hotel
The Ace Hotel chain is opening its first Japanese outpost in Kyoto this winter, in a former telephone exchange building overhauled by Kengo Kuma. More
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Drone footage shows the V&A Dundee nearing completion
This captioned movie features recent drone footage of the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, showing that the Kengo Kuma-designed building is nearly complete. More
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Kengo Kuma uses "borrowed scenery" to infuse nature into Suteki House
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has used an ancient East Asian landscaping principle to inform the design of this house outside Portland, Oregon. More
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Kengo Kuma reveals plant-covered Eco-Luxury Hotel for Paris
Plants will spill out between the overlapping wooden blocks that make up the facade of this hotel, which Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled for a site on the left bank of Paris' river Seine. More
