Kengo Kuma creates amoeba-shaped art gallery

With 10 thousand m², the art gallery, designed by Kengo Kuma, located in Wuxi, China, has an unusual and innovative facade. The firm took inspiration from the shape of local Taihu stone -- a limestone used in water -- to create the site. The extension of the facade is composed of aluminum panels that generate an amoeba-shaped building, projected outside the existing rigid brick structure.

Through the perforated facade, sunlight enters the interior of the building and creates natural lighting for the artistic space. Furthermore, the building is surrounded by a lake that reflects the wavy shape of the gallery on the ground, like a mirror.