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Kengo Kuma

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Archi.ru Texts:

10.07.2025

Alyona Kuznetsova. The Flower of the Lake

The prototype for the building of the Kamal Theater in Kazan is an ice flower: a rare and fragile natural phenomenon of Lake Kaban “froze” in the large, soaring outlines of the glass screens enclosing the main volume, shaping its silhouette and shielding the stained-glass windows from the sun. The project, led by the Wowhaus consortium and including global architecture “star” Kengo Kuma, won the 2021/2022 competition and was realized close to the original concept in a short – very short – period of time. The theater opened in early 2025. It was Kengo Kuma who proposed the image of an ice flower and the contraposition of cold on the outside and warmth on the inside. Between 2022 and 2024, Wowhaus did everything possible to bring this vision to life, practically living on-site. Now we are taking a closer look at this landmark building and its captivating story.

Partner Architects of Archi.ru:

  • Tatiana Zulkharneeva
  • Nikita Yavein
  • Roman Leonidov
  • Rostislav Zaiser
  • Julia  Tryaskina
  • Stanislav Belykh
  • Oleg Medinsky
  • Valery  Kanyashin
  • Sergei Tchoban
  • Igor  Shvartsman
  • Zurab Bassaria
  • Konstantin Khodnev
  • Vassily Krapivin
  • Vladimir Plotkin
  • Georgy Trofimov
  • Ilia Mashkov
  • Sergey  Trukhanov
  • Pavel Andreev
  • Sergey Skuratov
  • Andrey Romanov
  • Alexsey Ginzburg
  • Andrey Gnezdilov
  • Alexander Asadov
  • Oleg Shapiro
  • Polina Voevodina
  • Natalia Shilova
  • Anton Nadtochiy
  • Alexandra Kuzmina
  • Daniel  Lorenz
  • Andrey Asadov
  • Natalia Sidorova
  • Vera Butko
  • Sergey Kouznetsov
  • Mikhail Kanunnikov
  •  Valery  Lukomsky
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsova
  • Andy Snow
  • Alexandr Samarin
  • Yuliy Borisov
  • Dmitry Likin
  • Nikolay Pereslegin
  • Rais Baishev
  • Alexander Skokan
  • Vsevolod Medvedev
  • Sergey Pereslegin

Buildings and Projects: New Additions

  • Naberezhnaya Evropy, St. Petersburg
  • Pavilion for Chacha Ceremonies
  • “Replacement” Project
  • Residential complex
  • “Olympic Hall”Business Center
  • Residential complex
  • Residential complex ′Andersen′
  • Sports and residential complex “Olympic village Novogorsk”
  • The checkpoint and operation service building of “Novogorsk Olympic Village”