Kengo Kuma has been commissioned to create a large-scale sculpture in the V&A’s John Madejski Garden.

The Japanese architect, whose only UK building is the new V&A outpost in Dundee, will create a giant woven loop of bamboo and carbon fibre for the London Design Festival in September.

He said the doughnut-shaped installation was an “exploration of pliancy, precision, lightness and strength: by pulling two ends, it naturally de-forms and half of the woven structure is lifted into the air”.

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