The Architect · Noah · Sydney
The Exchange, Darling Square
I read it as one continuous gesture — a ribbon of timber battens spiralling up a drum. Kuma's whole idea is softness in a hard precinct, and it works.
Kengo Kuma's coiled timber ribbon wrapping a round civic building. A library you photograph.
— Noah, The Architect
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