Starbucks Coffee - Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine Omotesando

About this audio guide

This guide to the Starbucks on Dazaifu Tenmangu's approach follows architect Kengo Kuma's build of a shop woven from roughly two thousand cedar sticks joined without a single nail. It traces his years testing traditional kigumi joinery on earlier projects, and why he pushed the four-way joint further here than in his prior three-stick designs. You will hear how much cedar the shop actually took laid end to end, and when the dowels went in to stiffen the finished lattice.