THE EXCHANGE, cover uditch SYDNEY: This seven-knock down multi-habituate national building contains a public library, refreshful food commercialise and restaurants. Kuma writes: 'Timberland was selected for the construction gasbag in arrange to propose a cancel texture in line to the building's neighbours. An constitutive and self-generated woodland block out wraps just about the shifty flooring plates. The timbre strips filter out the raw promiscuous and leave a mild texture to the inside blank space. It is our absorbed to evince computer architecture as a region of the raw elements, the likes of a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree or a "nest", in a playful and primitive person manner'

XIANGCHENG YANGCHENG LAKE TOURIST TRANSPORTATION CENTER: This prominent 2018 bodily structure serves as a embrasure depot for Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, China, functioning as a holidaymaker centre, retail quad and shipyard

V&A DUNDEE: This awful construction projects retired ended the River Tay and is settled from 'layers of long slabs of precast concrete with varying angles, to pull in a window dressing with subtle nuances and dynamics', writes Kuma. Inside, meanwhile, 'every which way affiliated panels operate to make a wide-cut and relaxed space' and 'the space expands upwards so visitors buns undergo a unparalleled sentiency of openness'

GC PROSTHO MUSEUM RESEARCH CENTER, KASUGAI-SHI, JAPAN: Kuma explains that 'the subject area construct for this piece of work is founded on the organisation ill-used in Cidori, an older Japanese play made-up of woodwind instrument sticks with joints that stimulate a unequalled shape, and which put up be extended only by tortuous the sticks, without the need for nails or metallic fittings'. He adds: 'The wooden power system supports the structure, and too serves as a reveal place for the items exhibited in the museum. We worked on the image in the hope that the epoch of machine-made computer architecture would be over'

YUSUHARA WOODEN Bridge deck MUSEUM, TAKAOKA-GUN, JAPAN: This 'bridge/museum' golf links deuce world buildings and was constructed victimisation a 'alone cantilever bridgework design... a traditional technique that's been disregarded in Japan'. Kuma describes the 2010 complex body part as a 'reconciliation play bridge'

CODEA HOUSE, ATAMI, SHIZUOKA, JAPAN: This extraordinary, tree-the like social organization was made 'by randomly stacking three-inch- (eight-centimetre) lame cedar tree boards'. A miss of columns at the margin maximises the Pacific Ocean aspect

PRC Honorary society OF ART'S Tribe Artistic production MUSEUM, HANGZHOU, CHINA: This museum sits on a hilly web site inside the Communist China Academy of Art's Hangzhou campus, with the building's floors 'following the ups and downs of the slanted terrain'. The roof tiles were sourced from local anaesthetic houses

KOMATSU SEIREN Material LABORATORY FA-BO, NOMI, ISHIKAWA, JAPAN: Hera a rigid-material body office construction has been transformed into an expo space for the Komatsu Seiren material company. Lengths of atomic number 6 fiber receive been clothed over it and tethered to the priming to 'make an boilers suit illusion of fabric curtains' and to tone the building's tremor resistance

STARBUCKS COFFEE Store IN DAZAIFU, FUKUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN: Kuma explains that this Starbucks is placed on the principal coming to Dazaifu Tenmangu, one of Japan's major shrines. Along the way, are traditional ace and two-storey Japanese buildings 'so the aim was to get to a anatomical structure that harmonises with the boilers suit townscape'. The building is made of 2,000 stick-like parts varying in duration that conjunctive would stint for 2.74 miles (4.4km)

FRAC MARSEILLE: This museum has been covered with enamel spyglass panels to 'make a lenient appearance' and to 'scatter the unassailable ignitor of the Mediterranean into very well particles'

Japan Home STADIUM, TOKYO: This much-hoped-for stadium, realized in 2019, expresses the Nipponese computer architecture tradition of beautiful eaves with small-diameter 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 post deflect with a frontal covered in 'pleats' made of 0.7-inch-encompassing atomic number 13 mesh, 'studied to look equal the draping of a dress'

Residential area Securities industry YUSUHARA, JAPAN: This intriguing construction is a community grocery that doubles as a boutique hotel, with 15 suite placed close to an atrium where local anesthetic acquire is sold. The roof is thatched as a nod to the history of Yusuhara. It dates rear to the Meiji Restoration (1868) and during this sentence the road to Yusuhara, Kuma explains, was dashed with thatched toilet facility structures for travellers called Chadic language Do

JEJU BALL, JEJU, South KOREA: Elysian by the sorry porous volcanic careen of Jeju Island, Kuma studied these villas 'to seem as a mordant daily round Stone... for each one planetary house appears the like a one pebble in the landscape from a distance'

MONT-BLANC Radix CAMP, CHAMONIX, FRANCE: This is the military headquarters of Gloomy Ice, which specialises in outside wearable. Kuma says: 'In say for the architecture... to thaw into the environs the window dressing of the building was studied to be most ilk the trees in the wood, as it consists of thick, unskinned panels of oak'

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