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This project is a new building for the Baiso-in Temple in Tokyo, one of the city’s oldest Buddhist temples, built 360 years ago. In historic times temples and churches acted as community centers and venues for all kinds of cultural activities in the city. With his design for the new structure, Kuma wanted to give back to the temple its lost status as a focal point and an institution open to citizens.
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(2005). Baiso-In Temple. In: Kengo Kuma. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-642-4_18
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