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Shigeru Ban brings Paper Log House to Morocco in wake of earthquake

September 28, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has created a prototype for a temporary house that he plans to roll out in Morocco following this month’s devastating earthquake. The structure is the latest iteration of Ban’s Paper Log House model, which he developed as a quick-to-construct and affordable shelter for victims of natural disasters. Paper Log

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Shigeru Ban designs timber surgical centre for Ukraine’s war-wounded

July 24, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Japanese studio Shigeru Ban Architects and local studio AMBK have designed a cross-laminated timber expansion for Ukraine’s largest hospital, which is located in Lviv. Designed to increase hospital capacity in the country, the surgical centre was announced by the mayor of Lviv at the end of June at the Lviv Urban Forum. Construction of the extension

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“I always avoid designing something fashionable” says Shigeru Ban

June 5, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Shigeru Ban explains why he is tired of seeing architects use mass timber and how he wants to design a building that “changes its clothes” in this interview. Ban is known for his structurally innovative wooden buildings and his work with biomaterials, including cardboard and mass timber. Speaking to Dezeen at the

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Shigeru Ban unveils triple-domed Expo 2025 Osaka pavilion

May 31, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has given Dezeen an exclusive look at his design for the Expo 2025 Osaka, an undulating pavilion that will be built from paper tubes, bamboo and carbon-fibre reinforced plastic. The Blue Ocean Dome pavilion, pictured above, has a sinuous shape with a large domed central pavilion flanked by two smaller domes.

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Dezeen Agenda features Shigeru Ban’s cardboard shelters for Turkey-Syria earthquake

March 21, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features shelters designed by architect Shigeru Ban for victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Ban has supplied victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake with modular shelters made from cardboard tubes. The Paper Partition System functions as a structure that

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Shigeru Ban’s timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers “incredulous”

March 17, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland’s first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia, the office takes over a prominent site on the banks

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La Seine Musicale is “a symbol with meaning and function” says Shigeru Ban

March 16, 2023 Francesca Tesler 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban explains how his egg-shaped music auditorium acts as a western gateway to Paris in the last instalment of Dezeen’s Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. The video features La Seine Musicale, a music complex that houses a large multipurpose concert hall and a smaller auditorium. The musical facility is located on

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