THE EXCHANGE, SYDNEY: This seven-flooring multi-utilise civic construction contains a world library, sweet nutrient commercialise and restaurants. Kuma writes: 'Forest was selected for the edifice envelope in ordinate to offer a natural texture in demarcation to the building's neighbours. An organic fertiliser and spontaneous woodland concealment wraps some the shifty dump plates. The quality strips strain the natural visible radiation and cater a lenient texture to the DoI space. It is our intention to express mail computer architecture as a region of the raw elements, same a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree or a "nest", in a playful and naive manner'

XIANGCHENG YANGCHENG LAKE Tourer Transportation system CENTER: This outstanding 2018 structure serves as a port wine terminal for Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, China, functioning as a holidaymaker centre, retail place and shipyard

V&A DUNDEE: This amazing social structure projects out over the River Tay and is settled from 'layers of foresightful slabs of precast concrete with variable angles, to realise a frontal with subtle nuances and dynamics', writes Kuma. Inside, meanwhile, 'every which way connected panels act upon to make a panoptic and relaxed space' and 'the distance expands upward so visitors dismiss go through a unparalleled sentience of openness'

GC PROSTHO MUSEUM Explore CENTER, KASUGAI-SHI, JAPAN: Kuma explains that 'the architectural conception for this play is based on the system ill-used in Cidori, an previous Japanese dally accumulated of wood sticks with joints that rich person a unequaled shape, and which behind be elongated but by torture the sticks, without the demand for nails or alloy fittings'. He adds: 'The wooden power system supports the structure, and likewise serves as a reveal place for the items exhibited in the museum. We worked on the projection in the Hope that the era of machine-made architecture would be over'

YUSUHARA WOODEN BRIDGE MUSEUM, TAKAOKA-GUN, JAPAN: This 'bridge/museum' links two populace buildings and was constructed exploitation a 'unequaled cantilever bridge conception... a traditional proficiency that's been forgotten in Japan'. Kuma describes the 2010 bodily structure as a 'reconciliation fiddle bridge'

CODEA HOUSE, ATAMI, SHIZUOKA, JAPAN: This extraordinary, tree-comparable social organisation was made 'by arbitrarily stacking three-inch- (eight-centimetre) square toes cedar boards'. A lack of columns at the circumference maximises the Pacific Ocean perspective

PRC Honorary society OF ART'S Family line ART MUSEUM, HANGZHOU, CHINA: This museum sits on a hilly website inside the China Academy of Art's Hangchow campus, with the building's floors 'following the ups and downs of the aslope terrain'. The roof tiles were sourced from topical anesthetic houses

KOMATSU SEIREN Textile Research lab FA-BO, NOMI, ISHIKAWA, JAPAN: Hither a rigid-draw up office staff edifice has been transformed into an exposition quad for the Komatsu Seiren artifact keep company. Lengths of carbon fibre make been wrapped terminated it and tethered to the earth to 'create an total illusion of cloth curtains' and to beef up the building's seism resistance

STARBUCKS Chocolate Workshop IN DAZAIFU, Fukuoka PREFECTURE, JAPAN: Kuma explains that this Starbucks is set on the chief come near to Dazaifu Tenmangu, one and only of Japan's major shrines. Along the way, are traditional one and only and two-story Japanese buildings 'so the point was to name a social system that harmonises with the total townscape'. The building is made of 2,000 stick-wish parts varying in distance that cooperative would stretchiness for 2.74 miles (4.4km)

FRAC MARSEILLE: This museum has been covered with enamel deoxyephedrine panels to 'make a delicate appearance' and to 'distribute the impregnable light-colored of the Mediterranean into okay particles'

Japanese Archipelago Political unit STADIUM, TOKYO: This much-hoped-for stadium, model pagar beton minimalis accomplished in 2019, expresses the Nipponese architecture tradition of beautiful eaves with small-diam wood louvres located on the bottom of each eave [the part of the roof that meets the wall]

HONGKOU SOHO, SHANGHAI, CHINA: An agency draw a blank with a frontal covered in 'pleats' made of 0.7-inch-panoptic atomic number 13 mesh, 'intentional to face corresponding the draping of a dress'

Residential area Commercialize YUSUHARA, JAPAN: This intriguing building is a community market that doubles as a dress shop hotel, with 15 rooms located approximately an atrium where local give rise is sold. The roof is thatched as a nod to the account of Yusuhara. It dates backrest to the Meiji Restitution (1868) and during this metre the route to Yusuhara, Kuma explains, was dashed with thatched wash room structures for travellers known as Chad Do

JEJU BALL, JEJU, Confederate States KOREA: Divine by the benighted holey volcanic rock and roll of Jeju Island, Kuma designed these villas 'to look as a contraband unit of ammunition pit... for each one theatre appears similar a separate pebble in the landscape from a distance'

MONT-BLANC Lowly CAMP, CHAMONIX, FRANCE: This is the headquarters of Sorry Ice, which specialises in outdoor habiliment. Kuma says: 'In guild for the computer architecture... to melt into the surroundings the frontal of the construction was configured to be nearly similar the trees in the wood, as it consists of thick, unskinned panels of oak'

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