Kengo Kuma completes Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music — dezeen.com

Folded aluminium panels create vertical and horizontal pleats across the walls of this music conservatory and concert hall completed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in the south of France (+ slideshow). Located in Aix en Provence, the Darius Milhaud Conservatory buildings provide a new home for one of the oldest dance and music conservatories in France, first established in 1849. Kengo Kuma – who has worked on several projects in France, including the FRAC contemporary art centre in Marseille and a cultural centre with a chequered facade in Besançon – was tasked with designing the organisation a new 7,000-square-metre facility housing teaching facilities and a 500-seat auditorium.

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