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This week on Dezeen, we covered the news that leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma are designing holiday homes for the American reality star Kim Kardashian.
In a recent Vogue interview, Kardashian explained how she commissioned the architects to create a "zen" mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the Fourth of July.
Pritzker Architecture Prize winning-architect Ando is designing a two-storey mansion with a curved triangular footprint while Kuma is said to be working on a "glass-and-wood lake house".
A Mies van der Rohe-designed building completed in Indiana
In architecture news, a building designed in 1952 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was finally realised at Indiana University in Bloomington.
New York architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners adapted the design to create what is now called the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, more than 50 years after the architect's death.
MIT engineers have invented plastic that is stronger than steel
In design news, MIT engineers announced the invention of a new type of plastic that is stronger than steel and has "very unusual properties".
The material, which is referred to as 2DPA-1, has similar properties to plastic as it is light and mouldable yet differs in that it has much greater strength and resistance.
Sou Fujimoto, Benedetta Tagliabue and Paula Scher were named judges for Dezeen Awards 2022
Following the launch of Dezeen Awards 2022, we announced the first 15 judges.
Among the judges announced so far are notable architects Sou Fujimoto and Benedetta Tagliabue, industrialist Alberto Alessi and visual artist Charlotte Taylor.
Killa Design's Museum of the Future opened in Dubai
In Dubai, the Museum of the Future opened its doors to the public. Heralded as "the most beautiful building in the world" by the emirate's ruler, the seven-storey building contains exhibits dedicated to the future and hosts workshops for testing emerging technology.
Designed by local studio Killa Design, it is positioned alongside Dubai's elevated train line near the Burj Khalifa skyscraper – the world's tallest building.
Elon Musk proposed a Tesla tunnel in Miami
In transport news, Elon Musk's infrastructure firm The Boring Company submitted plans to build the North Miami Beach Loop tunnel in Miami.
The six-mile-long tunnel, through which a fleet of Teslas would operate, would connect the commuter railway station at Golden Glades with Sunny Isles Beach on the city's eastern coast.
Neil Dusheiko transformed a London fashion showroom into light-filled home
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Kim Kardashian has hired leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma to build a pair of vacation homes in the US – a "zen" mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the Fourth of July.
The reality TV star shared details of the projects during a recent interview with Vogue, in which she discussed her ongoing "love affair with architecture, specifically Japanese".
Tadao Ando (above) has designed a holiday home for a plot in Greater Palm Springs (top image)
Kuma, who designed the timber-clad National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is working on a "glass-and-wood lake house" in an undisclosed location, where Kardashian says she plans to spend Independence Days with her family.
Meanwhile, in a private gated community to the south of Palm Springs, Pritzker Architecture Prize winning-architect Ando is designing a two-storey mansion with a curved triangular footprint that has been compared to a spaceship.
The final result will be "concrete, gray-toned, and really zen", Kardashian revealed.
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In the Vogue interview, Kardashian explained that her love for architecture began during the seven-year renovation of her Calabasas home, which she shared with rapper Kanye West before filing for divorce last February.
The couple bought the house together in 2014, gutting and reimagining it in collaboration with Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt and architect Vincent Van Duysen to create a building so monochrome and sparsely furnished that Kardashian jokingly describes it as a "minimal monastery".
One of the only exceptions is the guest house, which comes in the form of a traditional shoin-zukuri dwelling that was shipped all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
Kengo Kuma is designing a lake house for Kim Kardashian. Photo is by JC Carbonne
"I'm really inspired by Japanese culture," Kardashian explained in an interview with i-D. "Our guest house is actually a samurai's old home that my art dealer, Axel Vervoordt, used to own."
"We got the bones of this old house from Japan and built it into our house, because it had such a different energy, this house has the energy of a warrior."
Kardashian recently acquired full ownership of the Calabasas house as part of the couple's ongoing divorce proceedings, while West purchased a bachelor pad in Malibu that was designed by Ando in 2013.
Although the planning application for Kardashian's own Ando-designed property was filed in November, the construction plans have since been delayed as the local council has requested more information to determine whether the building meets fire safety and pool codes.
The top image is courtesy of Google Earth. Tadao Ando's portrait is byChristopher Schriner via Wikimedia Commons.
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Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has designed a collection of peaked umbrella-shaped structures that were informed by the surrounding mountains for a rest area in Japan.
The Oath Hill Park is a rest area with toilets and an observation deck in a rural, mountainous location along a popular hiking trail on the eastern outskirts of the town of Oyama in Japan.
Oath Hill Park is located on a hiking trail and provides visitors with a place to rest and use restrooms
Kengo Kuma designed a collection of umbrella-shaped timber structures that resemble the tapering form and snowy peak of the distant Mount Fuji for the small "park."
Oath Hill Park is comprised of a sheltered observation deck beneath two adjoining umbrella canopies where hikers can rest, as well as restrooms that were positioned adjacent to the rest area.
The canopies and toilets were designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates and were informed by the peak of Mount Fuji
The two umbrella-shaped forms, used as the observation deck and for sheltered resting, were titled Eastern House. These interlock at their roof and are completely open at ground level, where they are encircled by a long curving bench.
The umbrella canopies are supported by large internal columns which, like the canopies themselves, were constructed using wooden pillars that were tied together with large iron rings.
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One of the roofs that forms part of the sheltered observation areas was wrapped in a translucent fluorine-coated membrane that reveals the timber skeleton beneath when it is illuminated.
Inside the Eastern House house structure, the wooden skeleton was left exposed to highlight the structural integrity of the building and maintain a connection with the undersides of the viewing and rest areas.
A translucent membrane clads the roof of one canopy, revealing the structural integrity when illuminated
The adjoining roof was clad in an opaque material that was similarly treated with fluorine for weatherproofing qualities.
The toilet structure has a cylindrical form and an identical opaque, peaked roof. The walls of the building were wrapped in a white render that echoes the colour of the roof that tops it, as well as the snow on Mount Fuji.
The structures were constructed using wooden pillars and iron
Elsewhere in Japan, the non-profit organisation Nippon Foundation organised Tokyo Toilet, a project that saw architects upgrade Tokyo's downtown district of Shibuya's public toilets.
As part of the project, Toyo Ito created a public toilet that is housed within three mushroom-shaped volumes, while Wonderwall referenced primitive Japanese huts by building toilets within a maze of board-marked concrete walls.
Kengo Kuma and Associates recently unveiled plans to add a contemporary, sculptural stone entrance to a gothic cathedral in France. The architecture practice also built the cedar-clad Japan National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has been named as the only architect in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2021.
Kuma, who heads up Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, was included in the annual ranking of the people the US magazine judges to be the world's most influential.
Top: Kengo Kuma has been named among the 100 most influential people of 2021. Above: he designed the Japan National Stadium
He was recognised for his "intricate buildings", which Kenjiro Hosaka, director of the Shiga Museum of Art, described as "losing architecture".
"Kengo Kuma champions an ideal of 'losing architecture' – intricate buildings that disappear into their environs – although it's hard to miss the new National Stadium in Japan when walking through the heart of Tokyo," said Hosaka in the citation.
The stadium features areas of greenery on its exterior
This year Kuma was in the limelight as he designed the Japan National Stadium, which was the centrepiece of this year's Olympics Games.
"His stylistic fingerprints can be seen throughout the elaborate project, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates in collaboration with two other firms for this year's Olympic Games," said Hosaka.
"Greenery dots the facade of the oval-shaped structure, the centerpiece of this year's Games, allowing a series of wooden eaves – a favored material for Kuma, procured from prefectures across Japan – to better blend in with the surrounding garden."
Kuma has designed buildings around the world including the V&A Dundee
Alongside the stadium, Kuma has designed significant buildings around the world. These include the V&A Dundee in Scotland, Folk Art Museum in China and the GC Prostho Museum Research Cente in Japan.
In 2019, Time magazine named V&A Dundee in its list of the World's Greatest Places for the year.
We recently rounded up 10 projects that showcase Kuma's "unexpected and innovative" approach to architecture from a book dedicated to the architect.
Philip Jodidio, who edited the book, told Dezeen that he believed the architect was less appreciated than other leading Japanese architects, including Shigeru Ban and Tadao Ando.
"Kuma is not as celebrated as these other figures, perhaps because his style is more dependent on place and available materials," said Philip Jodidio.
Being named on the Time list represents a growing appreciation of the architect's work.
He also designed the GC Prostho Museum Research Cente
Kuma is the latest architect to feature on the annual list. He follows American architect Jeanne Gang who was included in 2019, Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller in 2018, British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye in 2017 and BIG founder Bjarke Ingels in 2016.
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