Kengo Kuma & Associates Archives - Global Design News

Highlighting the maritime connection between Japan and Qatar, Kengo Kuma designs the Qatar Pavilion that resembles a dhow boat with a complex wooden structure covered in white fabric

Kengo Kuma & Associates in partnership with Qatar Museums create together Qatar's pavilion for the 2025 EXPO in Osaka, merges traditional craftsmanship from both Qatar and Japan, emphasizing the shared maritime heritage of the two nations, which serves as a source of resources and a channel for trade and knowledge exchange.

Carbon Huts

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Kengo Kuma generates a relaxing park with upside-down funnel shapes and carbon fiber strings braided radially to the ground

Kengo Kuma together with Azusa Sekkei have designed an ephemeral monument and a poetic landscape called “Carbon Huts.”

Alberni Tower by Kengo Kuma

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Balancing Japanese spatial tradition and urban design, Kengo Kuma’s Alberni Tower has a curvilinear form and a semi-enclosed amphitheatre at its base

Located in downtown Vancouver, Kengo Kuma's latest residential tower is completed in collaboration with Merrick Architecture and PFS Studio consists of 43 floors and is carved by two emphatic scoops that form deep balconies with wood soffits and decks.

Tottori Takahama Café by Kengo Kuma

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Characterized as a ‘staircase in the sky’ Kengo Kuma’s Tottori Takahama Café overlooks Tottori’s sand dunes and shore

Kengo Kuma & Associates designs a visitor center and café that overlooks the Tottori Sand Dunes, using wood abundantly in a hybrid structure of cross-laminated timber and reinforced concrete.

Albert Kahn Museum by Kengo Kuma

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Inspired by Japanese architecture, Kengo Kuma completes the new Albert Kahn Museum building by adding a clad of aluminum and bamboo louvers

The new building of the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris, designed by Kengo Kuma, his design team, and landscape architect Michel Desvigne Paysagiste is fully inspired by Albert Kahn’s deep connection and love with Japan.

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Kengo Kuma and Associate’s design for the H.C. Andersen Hus Museum is an architectural reflection of the dualities of the Danish writer’s stories that still speak to us today: real and imaginary, nature and manmade, human and animal, light and dark

Yuki Ikeguchi of Kengo Kuma and Associates with Cornelius Vöge and landscape architects MASU Planning has designed the H.C.Andersen Hus Museum for the Odense Municipality and A.P. Møller Fonden as a series of spaces in which the stories of the famed Danish writer unfold.

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Kengo Kuma and Adamson Associates present the visionary bucolic ‘Park Habitat’ for San Jose’s Westbank Campus blurring the obscure boundary between nature and the office

Kengo Kuma’s Park Habitat for Westbank together with associate architects Adamson Associates and landscape architects CMG Landscape Architecture answers with a nature-based concept for living and working in a city known for its innovative spirit.

Sazae Sauna by Kengo Kuma & Associates

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Taichi Kuma of Kengo Kuma & Associates designs futuristic, conch-shaped private sauna pods for Sana Mane glamping resort

Taichi Kuma of Kengo Kuma & Associates has created "Sazae", a private wood-clad sauna pod inspired by seashells made of plywood and concrete under the supervision of TTNE — a sauna specialty brand, for the Sana Mane glamping facility in Naoshima art island.

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Kengo Kuma reveals the practice’s first residential high-rise building in the United States, an 18-story geometrical tower that follows Miami’s art deco architectural landscape

Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled the design of the studio’s first residential building in the United States, an 18-story tower of 22 private, luxurious condominiums for the hospitality brand Aman, located in Miami’s Faena district, right on the oceanfront.

Marina Galleria by Kengo Kuma & Associates

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Kengo Kuma designs a premium retail development in Athens destined to become a new architectural landmark of the Athenian Riviera

Kengo Kuma and his team at Kengo Kuma & Associates have released designs for the new retail Marina Galleria for LAMDA Development—one of new The Ellinikon landmarks and architectural reference points at the Agios Kosmas area that will become a lifestyle destination of unique sophisticated architecture.

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