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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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Shigeru Ban Architects creates cardboard shelters for victims of Turkey-Syria earthquake

March 13, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has provided his Paper Partition System, made from cardboard tubes and fabric, to evacuation centres housing victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake. The Paper Partition System (PPS) is constructed using cardboard tubes, which function as a structure that holds up textile partitions. Ban provided the shelters, which take three people just five

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Shigeru Ban designs wood-clad housing blocks in Antwerp

December 9, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s studio has designed a pair of wood-clad housing blocks in Belgium named Ban, which will sit alongside a courtyard “where people can unwind”. Due to complete in 2025, Ban will comprise a low-rise, six-storey block and a 25-storey tower, containing a total of 295 residential units. Under construction in Antwerp’s Nieuw

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Shigeru Ban marries thatch and cardboard tubes at Farmer’s Restaurant in Japan

November 25, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

A thatched roof and large cardboard tubes form part of the structure of the Farmer’s Restaurant on Awaji Island, designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban’s studio. The restaurant sits in the middle of a field on the Japanese island, which is the same location as Shigeru Ban Architects’ wooden Zenbo Seinei meditation retreat,

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Shigeru Ban creates wooden Zenbo Seinei retreat on Japanese island

August 4, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Aerial view of Zenbo Seinei on Awaji Island by Shigeru Ban

An open-air platform for meditation is elevated above the treetops at Zenbo Seinei, a wooden retreat that Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed on Awaji Island in Japan. Nestled amongst trees on the island’s north side, the meditation retreat is aimed at tourists seeking space for self-reflection, healthy eating and mindfulness. Shigeru Ban

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