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Shigeru Ban - Studio News 2012 Cardboard Cathedral ‘Transitional’ project by Shigeru Ban to build a cardboard cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, the location of the earthquake. Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban will participate of the Arch.Future event On March 29th and 30th, Rio de Janeiro will host an event on contemporary architecture: the second edition of Arc.Future - a project developed by BEĨ. Two of the world's most respected architects, London-based Iraqi Zaha Hadid and Japan's Shigeru Ban, will be joining Harvard's Edward Glaeser and Princeton's José Alexandre Scheinkman, economists who study urban space, as well as Brazilian urbanists Augusto Ivan Pinheiro and Sérgio Magalhães, to exchange experiences and opinions. Arq Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Shigeru Ban - Latest Design The Metals Shutter Houses, New York City, USA 2011 photograph from NJ Shigeru Ban : Metals Shutter Houses Shigeru Ban Architects Completes Its First New York Condominium Project Metals Shutter Houses Offer Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Urban Living New York, New York - HEEA Development LLC is pleased to announce the completion of Metal Shutter Houses, a luxury condominium building designed by architect Shigeru Ban and his New York-based partner Dean Maltz, located in Chelsea’s art district, just west of the High Line. The building is at 524 West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues on New York’s ‘Starchitect Row’ next to Frank Gehry’s IAC Headquarters and across the street from Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th building. Shigeru Ban - Key Projects Most recent Building designed by Shigeru Ban Centre Pompidou-Metz, France 2010 photo : Roland Halbe Shigeru Ban design : Centre Pompidou-Metz Rather unusual building, criticised by some architectural critics for being disjointed, especially the relationship of roof and walls Featured Buildings by Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban Designs listed alphabetically: Boathouse, Pouilly-en-Auxois, France 2005 Centre Pompidou-Metz (Museum), Metz, France 2005-08 Shigeru Ban with Jean de Gasties & Gumuchdjian Architects Glass Shutter house, Meguro district, Tokyo, Japan 2004 Metal Shutter Houses, New York, USA 2007 Swatch - Retail & Office Tower, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2007 14 storeys Tokyo University Library, Japan 2007 Visitors’ Pavilion, Centre d’Interprétation, Pouilly-en-Auxois, France 2007 More buildings by architect Shigeru Ban online very soon

Shigeru Ban - Practice Information

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Shigeru Ban : Tokyo Architect

Shigeru Ban was born in 1957 and is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. He set up Shigeru Ban Architects in Tokyo, in 1985. He is especially well-known for his innovative paper tube structures (PTS), of which the Paper House (Yamanashi - Japan, 1995) provides the perfect example.

Shigeru Ban is largely credited with making cardboard an accepted construction material. Another project of note that added to European renown for Shigeru Ban was his design for the Japanese stand at the 2000 Hanover Universal Exhibition: a 3,100 sq m building made entirely from paper tubes and which could be completely recycled after the event.

In a similar vein, Shigeru Ban built the Nomadic Museum, at the request of photographer Gregory Colbert for the Ashes and Snow exhibition. An ingenious assembly of containers and paper tubes, the museum was erected in New York in 2005, before making its way to Los Angeles and later Japan and Europe.

Shigeru Ban has contributed his ingenuity to humanitarian causes by designing temporary shelters. He has built paper tube houses for earthquake survivors in Japan (Kobe, 1995), Turkey (Izmit, 1999) and India (Bhuj, 2001). 

The architect also worked with the United Nations Refugee Agency to provide temporary shelters for the victims of genocide in Rwanda. A totally different concept, the 2002 Picture Window House (Shizuoka) by Shigeru Ban is often cited as a masterpiece of transparent architecture. Overlooking the Pacific, the house stands inside a landscape of forest and ocean, with two enormous windows each measuring 20m long by 2.5 m high.

In 2004, architect Shigeru Ban was awarded the Gold Medal by the French Academy of Architecture.

Key Buildings by architect Shigeru Ban

Paper tube church, Kobe 1995
Tazawako Station, Akita 1997
GC Building, Osaka 2000
At­sushi Imai Gymnasium, Akita 2002
Museum of Paper Art, Shizuoka 2002
La Cité Manifeste, Mulhouse, France 2005
N.G. Hayek Center, Tokyo 2007
Paper Bridge, Remoulin, France 2007
Paper Dome Taiwan, Taiwan 2008
Metal Shutter House, New York, United States ongoing

Residential Projects by Shigeru Ban Architects

Curtain-Wall House, Tokyo 1995
Furniture House, Yamanashi 1995
Wall-less House, Nagano 1997
Naked House, Saitama 2000

Shigeru Ban : Japanese Buildings

Japanese Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
2000
Frei Otto with Shigeru Ban

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