Shigeru Ban designs boutique hotel that winds through woodland in Japan

February 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel by Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan

A “seamless flow” of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. The practice of the Pritzker-prize winning architect designed the 10-room resort, called Shishi-Iwa House, to be “a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human

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Shigeru Ban proposes trio of pyramids for Kentucky Owl whiskey distillery

November 21, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is overhauling a quarry in Kentucky into a campus built from mass timber, for a local whiskey distillery. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect was chosen to transform the 420-acre (170-hectare) Cedar Creek Quarry in Kentucky’s Bardstown into a campus dedicated to the production of bourbon. Across a landscaped setting, called Kentucky Owl

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Shigeru Ban builds temporary shelters from paper for Japan flooding victims

July 31, 2018 India Block 0

Pritzker Prize-winner Shigeru Ban has joined the disaster relief effort in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, personally setting up his Paper Partition System for evacuees. The Japanese architect joined the team from the Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) to construct a set of paper and fabric dividers inside school gymnasiums where survivors of the torrential rain are taking

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