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Kengo Kuma has spoken of his belief that 鈥渟quare box鈥� public architecture is a thing of the past ahead of the opening of his 拢80m V&A Dundee design museum.

The 8,000sq m Tayside centre, which was built by Bam and has come in at nearly double the 拢45m cost projected when Kuma won the design competition for the building in 2010, is due to welcome its first rank-and-file visitors on Saturday.

Speaking about the project on BBC Radio 4鈥檚 Today programme, the Japanese architect reiterated that his inspiration for the building had been cliffs in the north-west of Scotland.

But he went on to add that he believed the unconventional shape of the structure 鈥� commissioned to act as a bridge between Dundee鈥檚 riverside and the city centre 鈥� was symbolic of a wider movement in public architecture.

鈥淚n the 20^th century architecture was a square box but now we try to, as a change, as a definition of architecture, design from squareness, rigidness to more natural and softer [shapes],鈥� he said.

Referring to the new museum, he added: 鈥淚t can be a good example of that new trend.鈥�

V&A Dundee director Philip Long told the programme the building was a beacon for Scottish design ambition that literally could not have been delivered in the last century.

鈥淥ur contractors working on the project say 10 years ago, this couldn鈥檛 be done,鈥� he said. 鈥淏ut because of digital technologies that have been used it has been achieved.鈥�

Kuma beat teams that included Steven Holl and Rex, Snohetta with Gareth Hoskins and Austrian firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects in the competition. Rex subsequently told BD it had been widely accepted at the time of the decision that the .

None of V&A Dundee鈥檚 walls is straight, requiring the process of fabricating and installing the building鈥檚 2,500 cast stone two-tonne panels to be 鈥渕eticulously planned鈥�.