Kengo Kuma and Associates

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A master recreates his homeland’s aura in a verdant American setting.

Kengo Kuma infuses a modest restaurant in Portland, Oregon, with the craft and aura of Japan.

While building a 43-story skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, the Tokyo-based firm also embarked on a smaller project for its developer.

Kengo Kuma introduces new materials to take the edge off his earlier concrete design.

Steeped in history, the Beijing Tea House is a tasteful blend of past and present.

Since opening in 2005, Teikyo University Elementary School had outgrown its quarters in one of the university’s existing buildings. The school wanted to give each department its own space while keeping the atmosphere warm and intimate, despite the increase in size. The architects created a cedar-clad, reinforced-concrete schoolhouse with a rakish steel roof.

Today, people in cities seem to most appreciate neighborhoods where they can enjoy both tranquility and vitality at the same time.

Kengo Kuma and Associates adopt simplicity and modernity as guiding principles for the Capitol Hotel Tokyu.

For his first commission in the United States, Kengo Kuma had to carefully design an expansion to a mid-century Modern house in Connecticut.