Sunnyhills | Aoyama, Tokyo • Kengo Kuma + Associates. “In steel-framed buildings, where the distance between columns can be as wide as you like, you move away from a human scale. With wood, that span is limited to about 9 feet, so you automatically build structures that fit with an anthropomorphic sensibility,” he says. “By using wood, I could design a building that soothes the soul.”
