Melbourne's NGV Triennial Ponders the Distant Past and a Post-Pandemic Future
Artists and designers such as Kengo Kuma, Lee Ufan, and Faye Toogood explore themes of materiality and domesticity in one of the the year's few large-scale art events.
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Ace Hotel Kyoto Uses Traditional Japanese Materials in Unconventional Ways
Kengo Kuma and Commune Design have completed Ace Hotel Kyoto, the brand’s first location in Asia.
Ottoman Architecture Inspires Kengo Kuma's Contemporary Art Museum in Turkey
The Odunpazarı Modern Museum draws from the traditional wooden houses of Eskişehir, a university town with high hopes of becoming an arts hub.
Kengo Kuma Designs a Serene Meditation House for a German Hotel
The glass-and-steel structure—designed for a well-hidden retreat in the southern Bavarian Alps—is covered with 1,550 loosely arranged planks of local silver fir.
Kengo Kuma's Shiplike V&A Dundee Lands in Scotland
The futuristic, concrete-clad outpost of the London-based design museum is part of a larger effort to attract tourists to Dundee's burgeoning waterfront.
Kengo Kuma's V&A Dundee Museum Takes Shape
The museum, which is clad in roughly-textured concrete panels, is set to open in summer 2018.
