V&A Dundee

Scotland now has its first dedicated design museum with the recent opening of V&A Dundee. The three-storey building was designed by renowned award-winning Japanese architects Kengo Kuma & Associates, considered by many as the quintessential Japanese architect of today (also designing the stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics). The structure has no straight external walls; rather, its curved concrete walls hold 2500 pre-cast rough stone panels weighing up to 3000kg each to create the appearance of a Scottish cliff face. V&A Dundee is an 8000-square-metre building, with 1650 square metres of gallery space.