Introduction / Kengo Kuma -- An architecture of dissolution?: The work of Kengo Kuma / Botond Bognar -- Kiro-san Observatory, Yoshiumi, Ochi-gun, Ehime Prefecture, 1994 -- Water/Glass, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, 1995 -- River/filter, Tamakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, 1996 -- Noh stage in the forest, Toyoma, Tome-gun, Miyagi Prefecture, 1996 -- Memorial Park, Takasaki, Gumma Prefecture, 1997 (Project) -- Kitakami Canal Museum, Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, 1999 -- Stone Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, 2000 -- Museum of Ando Hiroshige, Bato, Nasu-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, 2000 -- Takayanagi Community Center, Takayanagi, Niigata Prefecture, 2000 -- Nasu History Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, 2000 -- Takasaki parking building, Takasaki, Gumma Prefecture, 2001 -- Sea/filter, Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 2001 -- Ginzan Onsen hot spring bath house, Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture, 2001 -- Plastic house, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2002 -- Great (Bamboo) Wall, Beijing, China, 2002 -- Baiso-in Temple, Minato-ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2003 -- Paint house building, Tama, Tokyo Prefecture, 2003 -- Forest/Floor, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, 2003 -- Soba Restaurant at Togakushi Shrine, Togakushi, Nagano Prefecture, 2003 -- Horai Onsen bath house, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, 2003 -- Shibuya Station, facade renovation, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2003 -- One Omotesando, Minato-Ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2003 -- Masanari Mural Art Museum, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2004, Shinonome Apartment Building, Koto-ku, Tokyo Prefecture, 2004
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Twenty-four of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's elegant and understated projects from 1994 to 2004 are presented in this volume. His use of screens and slats are noticeable throughout the book, as well as his sensitivity to the environment in which he builds. Bognar (architecture, U