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Japanese pavilion at the Expo 2000, Hannover (2000) Ban designed the Nomadic Museum with engineer Buro Happold, a temporary structure composed of 156 shipping containers (2006) Shigeru Ban ( 坂 茂 , Ban Shigeru , born 5 August 1957) [ 2 ] is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes ...
Some of his best-known works include the Japanese Pavilion (2000, Hanover Expo in Germany), Paper Arch (2000, Museum of Modern Art, New York), and the Naked House (2000, Saitama, Japan). [10] Ban has taught at academic institutions including Columbia University in New York City, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Kyoto University of ...
Japan Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, designed by Shigeru Ban, one of the architects of the Pompidou Center. Ephemeral architecture is the art or technique of designing and building structures that are transient, that last only a short time.
Shigeru Ban, who is known for building emergency housing using recyclable paper tubes for disaster survivors worldwide—from Japan to Rwanda, Turkey and New Zealand—was in Hawaii last week to ...
Designed by architect Shigeru Ban along with consultants Frei Otto (the German architect who created the Olympic Stadium (Munich) and the German pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal), Buro Happold (the British engineering firm which created the Millennium Dome) and Stefan Polonyi (a structural engineering professor), the building took 3 weeks to ...
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The facade—the architect’s first project in California—is composed of accordion-like pleats crafted from American oak and glass.
The Cardboard Cathedral was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and opened in August 2013. It is located on the site of the former St John the Baptist Church on the corner of Hereford and Madras Streets in Latimer Square , several blocks from the permanent location of ChristChurch Cathedral.