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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:

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

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”