saved.archi

your architecture companion

Work

Waseda International House of Literature

The Waseda International House of Literature, also known as the Haruki Murakami Library, is an academic building, library, and museum exhibition space at Waseda University in Shinjuku designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

building

built

Unknown

Nishi-Waseda, Nishi-Waseda, Japan

Museum

museumlibraryeducationcampus buildingMuseum
Compare this workMore works hereMap nearby worksView city pageView region pageView country pageOpen source record

Gallery

Hero image, caption, credit, source, and license are attached to the work record.

Waseda International House of Literature in Nishi-Waseda, Japan

Gallery

Waseda International House of Literature gallery

Waseda International House of Literature image

Library and museum in Shinjuku, Tokyo

Credit:

Rights: Unknown · unknown

View related workWikipediaUnknown

1

Architects

1

Bureaus

0

Books

Phase 1 site intelligence

Runtime context from mapping, climate, transit, and access providers

Loading

Gathering site context

Pulling place, climate, and nearby mobility signals for this work.

Project source graph

Primary, verified, captured, and archive traces attached to this work

Loading

Assembling project-source coverage

Pulling canonical links, verified sources, captured candidates, archive traces, and Phase 2 environmental context.

Phase 3 materials and carbon

Material palette, carbon research, and classification scaffolding around the work

Loading

Building the material and carbon layer

Normalizing the palette, checking public classification systems, and preparing product-level research handoffs.

Architects

People attached to this work in the current corpus

Architect

Kengo Kuma

Role: lead architect

Primary contributor

Architect entity derived from ArchDaily project office credits.

Bureaus

Practices attached to this work in the current corpus

Bureau

Kengo Kuma & Associates

bureau · Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Role: designer

Primary bureau

Bureau entity derived from ArchDaily project office credits.

Related works

Nearby precedents grouped by architect line, geography, material, typology, and decade.