Great (Bamboo) Wall
Fifty-one-year-old Kengo Kuma, among the best-known Japanese architects of his generation, tends to use each of his residential commissions to explore a single building material. In a dense Tokyo neighborhood, for example, he designed the so-called Plasti
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Great (bamboo) wall
LOCATION
Commune by the Great Wall, Shuiguan-Badaling, China
ARCHITECTURALFIRM
DESIGNER
YEAR
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Kengo Kuma
2002
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