THE EXCHANGE, SYDNEY: This seven-story multi-wont administrative district construction contains a populace library, invigorated food for thought grocery store and restaurants. Kuma writes: 'Timberland was selected for the edifice envelope in put to volunteer a innate texture in demarcation to the building's neighbours. An constituent and unwritten lumber CRT screen wraps close to the shift take aback plates. The forest strips separate out the innate illuminate and ply a mild texture to the Interior blank. It is our enwrapped to limited architecture as a separate of the innate elements, equal a Tree or a "nest", in a playful and archaic manner'

XIANGCHENG YANGCHENG LAKE Tourer Deportation CENTER: This hit 2018 complex body part serves as a interface endmost for Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, China, performance as a holidaymaker centre, retail blank space and shipyard

V&A DUNDEE: This astonishing social system projects away concluded the River Tay and is formed from 'layers of foresighted slabs of pagar beton precast concrete with varying angles, to realise a facade with insidious nuances and dynamics', writes Kuma. Inside, meanwhile, 'randomly committed panels ferment to create a all-encompassing and relaxed space' and 'the place expands upwards so visitors crapper undergo a alone sense of openness'

GC PROSTHO MUSEUM Search CENTER, KASUGAI-SHI, JAPAN: Kuma explains that 'the architectural conception for this ferment is founded on the organization exploited in Cidori, an former Nipponese dally made-up of Sir Henry Wood sticks with joints that sustain a unequaled shape, and which nates be prolonged merely by straining the sticks, without the demand for nails or metallic element fittings'. He adds: 'The wooden power grid supports the structure, and besides serves as a showing blank for the items exhibited in the museum. We worked on the envision in the Bob Hope that the era of machine-made architecture would be over'

YUSUHARA WOODEN Bridge deck MUSEUM, TAKAOKA-GUN, JAPAN: This 'bridge/museum' links deuce populace buildings and was constructed exploitation a 'unequaled cantilever bridge over designing... a traditional proficiency that's been forgotten in Japan'. Kuma describes the 2010 complex body part as a 'balancing play bridge'

CODEA HOUSE, ATAMI, SHIZUOKA, JAPAN: This extraordinary, tree-equal bodily structure was made 'by randomly stacking three-inch- (eight-centimetre) straight cedar tree boards'. A miss of columns at the perimeter maximises the Pacific Sea scene

China ACADEMY OF ART'S Common people Nontextual matter MUSEUM, HANGZHOU, CHINA: This museum sits on a cragged locate inside the Taiwan Honorary society of Art's Hangzhou campus, with the building's floors 'followers the ups and downs of the slanted terrain'. The roof tiles were sourced from local anaesthetic houses

KOMATSU SEIREN Material Testing ground FA-BO, NOMI, ISHIKAWA, JAPAN: Here a rigid-frame up spot edifice has been transformed into an expo space for the Komatsu Seiren fabric companion. Lengths of carbon paper fiber make been clothed terminated it and tethered to the solid ground to 'make an boilersuit magic of fabric curtains' and to tone up the building's quiver resistance

STARBUCKS Java Grass IN DAZAIFU, Fukuoka PREFECTURE, JAPAN: Kuma explains that this Starbucks is situated on the principal overture to Dazaifu Tenmangu, unmatchable of Japan's John Roy Major shrines. Along the way, are traditional unitary and two-story Nipponese buildings 'so the objective was to progress to a anatomical structure that harmonises with the boilersuit townscape'. The building is made of 2,000 stick-alike parts variable in duration that conjunctive would reaching for 2.74 miles (4.4km)

FRAC MARSEILLE: This museum has been covered with tooth enamel shabu panels to 'create a voiced appearance' and to 'scatter the secure dismount of the Mediterranean Sea into delicately particles'

JAPAN NATIONAL STADIUM, TOKYO: This much-awaited stadium, realised in 2019, expresses the Asian country computer architecture tradition of beautiful eaves with small-diam woodwind louvres placed on the undersurface of from each one eave [the part of the roof that meets the wall]

HONGKOU SOHO, SHANGHAI, CHINA: An position deflect with a frontage covered in 'pleats' made of 0.7-inch-wide-eyed aluminum mesh, 'intentional to search the like the draping of a dress'

Biotic community Grocery YUSUHARA, JAPAN: This intriguing construction is a residential district commercialise that doubles as a boutique hotel, with 15 rooms located more or less an atrium where local anesthetic green goods is sold. The roof is thatched as a nod to the chronicle of Yusuhara. It dates hind to the Meiji Restoration (1868) and during this clock the touring to Yusuhara, Kuma explains, was speckled with thatched convenience structures for travellers known as Lake Chad Do

JEJU BALL, JEJU, Dixieland KOREA: Divine by the sinister poriferous mountain careen of Jeju Island, Kuma studied these villas 'to come along as a black turn Stone... to each one theatre appears ilk a undivided pebble in the landscape from a distance'

MONT-BLANC Dishonorable CAMP, CHAMONIX, FRANCE: This is the home base of Downcast Ice, which specialises in outside vesture. Kuma says: 'In govern for the computer architecture... to break up into the surroundings the frontal of the construction was designed to be near similar the trees in the wood, as it consists of thick, unskinned panels of oak'

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