Shigeru Ban

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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Shigeru Ban to build “pagoda in the park” as his first UK building

January 15, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has teamed up with cross-laminated-timber expert Waugh Thistleton to design his first UK building – a five-storey house that will be built beside London’s River Thames. Southwark Council last week granted planning approval for the so-called “pagoda in the park”, which is proposed at Potters Fields, behind City Hall and a

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