From the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi and MAD Architects’ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in L.A., 2026 promises iconic architecture that sparks imagination and celebrates culture worldwide.
How can architecture tackle climate change? The Natural Intelligens section at Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale explores nature-driven solutions, from pachidems’ dung bricks to architecturally grown branches, city-dwelling bugs’ homes, and structures grown by microbes.
The Qatar Pavilion was inspired by traditional fishermen’s boats and Japanese wood-joinery techniques.
Renaissance gardens, traditional fishing boats and desert villages inspire the architecture of these striking pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka.
From Sou Fujimoto’s masterplan for Expo 2025 Osaka to Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi. These stunning cultural venues will also celebrate Harlem’s black heritage, Chinese Opera and David Bowie.
Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Giulio Iacchetti designed concept kennels for the ‘Architecture for Dogs’ exhibition in Milan.
Kengo Kuma’s textile scenography for the San Carlo Opera House, a tribute to the city’s art of hanging laundry and a mythical mermaid’s egg. Seven cult exhibitions at Edit Napoli 2024.
The Dalmore and Kengo Kuma create an architectural ‘floating’ sculpture for the Luminary Series of limited-edition luxury whiskies.
How long does excellence take? This is the opening question of the ‘Decades in the Making’ short movie featuring two masters of their craft: acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Richard Paterson, Master Distiller of Dalmore, Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
The AERODREAM exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz showcases the inflatable work of architects, artists and designers who found alternatives to postwar rationalism ‘within a bubble.’ From the pop icon ‘Blow’ chair to Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Biosphere’ and the inflatable concert hall by Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor.
Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi recreational venue is dressed with a skin of wooden leaves filtering light like trees in a forest.
Kengo Kuma, Kenzo Tange and Fumihiko Maki but also Tange Associates, Kume Sekkei and more… Tokyo Olympics’ architecture is cross-generational and great, even if we can’t be there!
Discover 24 architectural museums opening in 2021: from Kengo Kuma’s Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark to Jean Nouvel’s Pudong Museum of Art in Shanghai, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza and the Aviici Experience in Stockholm.
Four seasons flourishing under the same roof, a glowing-city at Brera Botanic Orchard and a forest of lanterns under the castle. Nature conquers Milan Design Week 2018; discover green pavilions by Kengo Kuma, piuarch, Mario Cucinella, Carlo Ratti and more…
5 eclectic glass designs launched at Maison & Object 2018: from Kengo Kuma’s charred crystal vases to Zaha Hadid’s rippling vessels and Tom Dixon’s home terrariums.
A concrete cliff shaped like a vessel and a desert rose inspired architecture but also a grand museum by the Giza pyramids and a musical tower remembering 9.11 heroes… 7 cultural architectures inaugurating in 2018.
Welcome to Tokyo! From the mother of all capsule hotels in Ginza to the Manga district, from Omotesandō flamboyant retail to Blade Runner panoramas and the famous Shibuya Crossing. Our guide features masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Kenzo Tange, Kengo Kuma, Herzog de Meuron and more, but also vertigo views, design museums and rollercoasters piercing skyscrapers.
Grey tiled pitched roofs merge with a green hilly panorama. From above Kengo Kuma’s China Academy of Arts’ Folk Art Museum looks like traditional Chinese village.
With Tsumiki, Kengo Kuma and Ryuichi Sakamoto launch an interactive Japanese Lego game that allows kids to express their architectural skills.
Poets and warriors from ancient Japan inspire mobile tea rooms by Kengo Kuma.
