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Hans Christian Andersen Hus by Kengo Kuma

When Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was growing up, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen were some of the first stories to spark his imagination. “I was so familiar with his tales — I felt close to them,” he says. Many decades later, his studio returned to these fables to design H.C. Andersen’s House, a fantastical new museum in the small Danish city of Odense. “I tried to express [Andersen’s] magic in the architecture,” says Yuki Ikeguchi, the partner in charge of the project, who led the design from the firm’s Paris office. “I wanted to take visitors to a different world.”

Thumbelina-inspired metal flowers decorate the museum’s underground world, while skylights look up to the gardens above.

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Kengo Kuma & Associates Builds Upon the Magic of Hans Christian Andersen

H.C. Andersen’s House celebrates the author with mystical settings lifted straight from his fairy tales.

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