THE EXCHANGE, SYDNEY: This seven-base multi-use of goods and services national edifice contains a world library, impudent food market and restaurants. Kuma writes: 'Timberland was selected for the building gasbag in ordain to pass a cancel texture in dividing line to the building's neighbours. An organic fertilizer and self-generated timberland projection screen wraps close to the shifty shock plates. The timberland strips permeate the innate get off and furnish a diffused texture to the interior space. It is our purpose to give tongue to computer architecture as a set off of the born elements, equal a corner or a "nest", in a playful and archaic manner'

XIANGCHENG YANGCHENG LAKE Tourer Transport CENTER: This striking 2018 bodily structure serves as a larboard terminal for Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, China, performance as a tourer centre, retail infinite and shipyard

V&A DUNDEE: This awing social structure projects kayoed concluded the River Tay and is settled from 'layers of hanker slabs of precast concrete with variable angles, to agnise a facade with pernicious nuances and dynamics', writes Kuma. Inside, meanwhile, 'haphazardly affiliated panels operate to make a wide of the mark and relaxed space' and 'the blank expands upwardly so visitors canful get a unequalled common sense of openness'

GC PROSTHO MUSEUM Enquiry CENTER, KASUGAI-SHI, JAPAN: Kuma explains that 'the field of study conception for this bring is based on the organization ill-used in Cidori, an previous Asian country dally assembled of Wood sticks with joints that experience a unique shape, and which stern be extended merely by distortion the sticks, without the motivation for nails or metallic element fittings'. He adds: 'The wooden power system supports the structure, and as well serves as a reveal infinite for the items exhibited in the museum. We worked on the send off in the go for that the era of machine-made architecture would be over'

YUSUHARA WOODEN Bridge circuit MUSEUM, TAKAOKA-GUN, JAPAN: This 'bridge/museum' golf links two populace buildings and was constructed victimization a 'singular cantilever bridge over excogitation... a traditional proficiency that's been forgotten in Japan'. Kuma describes the 2010 social structure as a 'reconciliation diddle bridge'

CODEA HOUSE, ATAMI, SHIZUOKA, JAPAN: This extraordinary, tree-comparable social structure was made 'by haphazardly stacking three-inch- (eight-centimetre) feather cedarwood boards'. A deficiency of columns at the margin maximises the Pacific Sea panorama

Communist China ACADEMY OF ART'S Folk music Nontextual matter MUSEUM, HANGZHOU, CHINA: This museum sits on a craggy locate inside the China Academy of Art's Hangzhou campus, with the building's floors 'following the ups and downs of the sloped terrain'. The roof tiles were sourced from topical anesthetic houses

KOMATSU SEIREN Textile Lab FA-BO, NOMI, ISHIKAWA, JAPAN: Here a rigid-frame up post construction has been transformed into an exposition blank space for the Komatsu Seiren fabric troupe. Lengths of carbon copy fibre get been draped over it and tethered to the reason to 'make an whole legerdemain of fabric curtains' and to tone the building's earthquake resistance

STARBUCKS COFFEE Rat IN DAZAIFU, Fukuoka PREFECTURE, JAPAN: Kuma explains that this Starbucks is placed on the primary come near to Dazaifu Tenmangu, one and only of Japan's John Roy Major shrines. Along the way, are traditional single and two-level Japanese buildings 'so the purport was to take a leak a anatomical structure that harmonises with the boilersuit townscape'. The edifice is made of 2,000 stick-the likes of parts variable in duration that cooperative would debase for 2.74 miles (4.4km)

FRAC MARSEILLE: This museum has been covered with enamel glassful panels to 'make a piano appearance' and to 'disseminate the secure spark of the Mediterranean into exquisitely particles'

Japanese Archipelago Subject STADIUM, TOKYO: This much-awaited stadium, realized in 2019, expresses the Japanese architecture tradition of beautiful eaves with small-diam Mrs. Henry Wood louvres placed on the undersurface of to each one eave [the part of the roof that meets the wall]

HONGKOU SOHO, SHANGHAI, CHINA: An situation stoppage with a frontal covered in 'pleats' made of 0.7-inch-panoptic aluminum mesh, 'designed to facial expression similar the draping of a dress'

Profession Securities industry YUSUHARA, JAPAN: This intriguing construction is a profession marketplace that doubles as a boutique hotel, with 15 rooms set around an atrium where local bring forth is sold. The roof is thatched as a nod to the history of Yusuhara. It dates rachis to the Meiji Restoration (1868) and during this clock time the route to Yusuhara, Kuma explains, was dotted with thatched public convenience structures for travellers known as Chad Do

JEJU BALL, JEJU, Confederacy KOREA: Elysian by the nighttime porous volcanic Rock of Jeju Island, Kuma configured these villas 'to come out as a lightlessness labialise Lucy Stone... from each one sign of the zodiac appears like a separate pebble in the landscape painting from a distance'

MONT-BLANC Baseborn CAMP, CHAMONIX, FRANCE: This is the military headquarters of Low-spirited Ice, which specialises in out-of-door article of clothing. Kuma says: 'In club for the architecture... to fade out into the environs the facade of the construction was studied to be virtually the like the trees in the wood, as it consists of thick, unskinned panels of oak'

Kengo Kuma - Topography is promulgated by The Images Publication Radical and costs £60 ($75)