Kengo Kuma’s SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival.
Van der Linden, who produces the One Minute Architecture channel on YouTube, made a short film about the basket-like building in Tokyo’s fashionable Aoyama district.
“You might confuse the building behind me as the head office of the local Boy Scouts,” says Van der Linden in the video. “But you’re wrong. This pile of wood is actually the design of the future Pritzker Prize winner Kengo Kuma.”
Completed in 2014 for the baker of Taiwanese pineapple cakes, the three-storey building is clad in a grid of over 5,000 metres of wooden strips.
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