Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral was the most significant building of 2013 The Cardboard Cathedral inNew Zealandby Japanese architectShigeru Banis the next building to secure its place in our list ofthe 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century.More...
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Based in Tokyo and Paris, Ban consistently challenges accepted notions of architecture, designing a house without walls, or an exhibition space made from paper tubes and shipping containers. As one of his most important buildings nears completion - the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France - this...
A new set of renderings has been released the Shigeru Ban Architects’ Terrace House development in Vancouver.
by means of adhesives. The building structure has a peeling strength of not less than 13.0 kg/cm2and a compression strength of not less than 250 kg/cm2, which can be used for manufacturing interior and exterior walls of buildings in simple steps, rapidly and at a reduced manufacturing cost...
Based in Japan and one of an emerging generation of young, world-class architects, Shigeru Ban (b.1957) designs and builds graceful, serene structures using modest and experimental materials such as cardboard, paper tubes, bamboo and prefabricated wood. His buildings are sometimes soaring and bird...
Shigeru Ban (born August 5, 1957 in Tokyo, Japan) became a world-renowned architect after winning the profession's highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2014. Ban began his career like many others — with private commissions designing residential properties. During these early years,...
Ban came across an article on John Hejduk, the “paper architect” and then-dean of Cooper Union’s School of Architecture in New York. Ban’s encounter with the models and plans of these unbuilt buildings was revolutionary for him, and he decided to go to the United States and study ar...
The partialtimber structure was used to conform to Korean regulations that do not allow timber buildings to exceed 6 000 square meters in size. The first floor of the atrium has 4.5meterwide glass shutters that open fully. SEE MRE Shigeru Ban Architects ...
Environmentally friendly buildings have become a fashion, he argues, but sustainability is now largely a business strategy, one that doesn’t necessarily distinguish between what’s actually sustainable and what just looks (and sells) like sustainability. “I’m not interested in that,” he says....