Kengo Kuma and Associates has updated progress on the brand new UCCA Clay Museum in Jiangsu province, China, a month after the project was completed in Yixing, the countrys renowned "ceramic capital."Image: Fangfang Tian, courtesy Kengo Kuma and AssociatesThe museum is covered by textured ceramic panels with glazed color gradations that change with the sun and sits on a wooden shell structure whose sculptural volume reflects the form of the regions Shushan mountains while sheltering usable open space underneath.Image: Fangfang Tian, courtesy Kengo Kuma and AssociatesThe design also uses a dragon kiln as a metaphor while calling to the small ateliers, a canal, and surrounding ceramics factory complex located to either side. Each of the 3,600 ceramic facade panels was handmade by a local artisan and some showcase engravings made by local schoolchildren. Kuma says this communicates a sense of the "warmth of craftsmanship."Image: Eiichi Kano, courtesy of Kengo Kuma and Associ...