Kengo Kuma beats Toyo Ito to win Japan National Stadium competition
Japanese officials have selected a wooden lattice design by Kengo Kuma for the new National Stadium in Tokyo, which will be the centrepiece for the 2020 Olympics. More
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Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito unveil competing bids for Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito have designed rival proposals to build the 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium, replacing Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design. More
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Kengo Kuma's Tsumiki building blocks can be arranged to create original sculptures
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has created a modelling kit made up of triangular-shaped wooden pieces, which has been described as the Japanese alternative to Lego (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma installs climbable wooden pavilion in Paris park
Visitors can clamber to the top of this pavilion by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Paris' Jardin des Tuileries, which is made up of a complex lattice of identical timber beams. More
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Cave-shaped and plant-covered museum by Kengo Kuma is dedicated to Filipino history
An artificial ravine will carve through the centre of Kengo Kuma's Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in the Philippines, which is shaped like a hollowed-out lump of rock (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma creates sprawling "village" of folk-art galleries for China Academy of Arts
Thousands of curved tiles cover the gabled rooftops of the new folk-art galleries at the China Academy of Arts, designed by Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates to look like a small village (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma to "fuse nature and architecture" with twisted Rolex tower underway in Dallas
Construction is now underway on a twisted tower designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma for Rolex in Dallas, Texas. More
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Kengo Kuma expansion plan unveiled for Japanese garden in Oregon
Architect Kengo Kuma has designed an expansion scheme for the Portland Japanese Garden that preserves existing gardens while adding new buildings to the verdant site (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma replaces the walls of a Beijing tea house with a grid of translucent blocks
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has arranged translucent plastic blocks in a brick-like formation to create new walls for a Beijing tea house overlooking the Forbidden City (+ slideshow). More
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Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
Children's play areas located beneath the zigzag roof of this community centre by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been landscaped to form a hilly indoor terrain that can be clambered over or used as slides (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma uses a grand staircase to transform a Tokyo warehouse into a shop
A huge staircase interspersed with trees winds up to the entrance of this former Tokyo warehouse that Kengo Kuma and Associates has converted into a lifestyle store and cafe (+ slideshow). More
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Matted electric cables cover the surfaces of a Tokyo bar by Kengo Kuma
Tufts of brightly coloured electrical cabling give the walls and furniture of this bar by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma a hairy appearance (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma wins bid to design station for new Paris Metro line
Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates has won a competition to design the Gare Saint-Denis Pleyel, one of three key stations that will be built to serve a new stretch of the Paris Metro. More
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New Pinterest board: Kengo Kuma
Following the publication of three projects by Kengo Kuma this week, we've collected together the best examples of the Japanese architect's work from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.
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Kengo Kuma extends his Garden Terrace Nagasaki hotel with an asymmetric annex
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has added a wooden building with a pointy metal roof to a seaside hotel complex he completed five years ago in Nagasaki, south-west Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma creates facade of wooden strips for University of Tokyo computing facility
Hundreds of thin wooden strips cover the facade of this university building by Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates, while a cavernous opening at ground level frames a view of a park behind (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma designs Tokyo hospital wrapped around a garden
News: Japanese firm Kengo Kuma + Associates has unveiled plans to replace an ageing Tokyo medical centre with a louvre-clad hospital built around a landscaped garden. More
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Kengo Kuma wraps the inside of Camper's Milan store in a timber grid
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has covered the interior of Camper's Milan store in a grid of pale ply that stretches from floor to ceiling (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma "surprised" after V&A Dundee costs rise to £80 million
News: the cost to build a new outpost of the V&A museum in Dundee, Scotland, has almost doubled to the sum of £80 million – a figure that architect Kengo Kuma has claimed is "surprisingly high" (+ movie). More
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Kengo Kuma suspends wooden barrels over Japanese soy-sauce shop
Huge wooden barrels traditionally used in the making of soy sauce are suspended over the heads of customers at this shop designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for a sauce manufacturer in Nihonbashi, Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
