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Shigeru Ban’s Sri Lanka Post-Tsunami Housing Project Nominated for 2013 Aga Khan Award

Shigeru Ban’s Sri Lanka Post-Tsunami Housing Project Nominated for 2013 Aga Khan Award

After consulting with locals about the preferred layout of their new micro homes, Ban designed the 31 square meter homes with a bathroom and kitchen that is separated by the living area. This last

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Shigeru Ban’s Innovative IE Paper Tube Pavilion Opens Today in Madrid

Shigeru Ban’s Innovative IE Paper Tube Pavilion Opens Today in Madrid

Shigeru Ban is on a roll these days - the internationally acclaimed architect just added yet another newly finished building to his 2013 roster. Today Ban presided over the official opening of the IE

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Shigeru Ban’s Carbon Neutral Tamedia Office Fits Together Like Building Blocks

Shigeru Ban’s Carbon Neutral Tamedia Office Fits Together Like Building Blocks

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is building a new carbon neutral office for Swiss media company Tamedia. Located in the heart of Zurich, the 4-story building features a beautiful wooden structure that fits

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Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Onagawa Housing is Made from Paper Tubes and Shipping Containers

Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Onagawa Housing is Made from Paper Tubes and Shipping Containers

In March 2011, the town of Onagawa, Japan was devastated by a powerful earthquake. In the months that followed, Shigeru Ban Architects designed a temporary housing complex for survivors who had been

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Shigeru Ban Unveils Temporary Cardboard Tube Pavilion for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Gorky Park, Moscow

Shigeru Ban Unveils Temporary Cardboard Tube Pavilion for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Gorky Park, Moscow

Using locally produced paper tubes, Shigeru Ban designed an oval wall which encompasses an area of 2,400 square meters, including a rectangular exhibition space, a bookshop and a café. The wall reaches a

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Shigeru Ban’s New Camper Store is a Cardboard-Topped House of Shoes in NYC

Shigeru Ban’s New Camper Store is a Cardboard-Topped House of Shoes in NYC

If you’re a Shigeru Ban fan living in NYC, we urge you to head down to check out the starchitect’s newest work, the Camper shoe store in SoHo. The design is decidedly “Ban,” and

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8 Green Valentines for the Architects and Designers We Love!

8 Green Valentines for the Architects and Designers We Love!

Mike's Design Crush: Michelle Kaufmann Ever since Inhabitat first met Michelle Kaufmann back in 2007, we've had a huge crush on her groundbreaking brand of sustainable design - she proved that green

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Shigeru Ban Unveils Plans for a Naturally Daylit Art Museum for Aspen

Shigeru Ban Unveils Plans for a Naturally Daylit Art Museum for Aspen

Shigeru’s five key design elements for the building are the grand stair, the moving room, the wooden screen, the roof design, and the walkable skylight. The grand staircase supports circulation, but is

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Shigeru Ban Unveils Towering Cardboard Cathedral for Christchurch

Shigeru Ban Unveils Towering Cardboard Cathedral for Christchurch

A devastating earthquake all but leveled Christchurch’s older buildings in February, however Shigeru Ban just unveiled a massive temporary cardboard building that will replace the city's historic

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Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter Houses Now Complete in NYC!

Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter Houses Now Complete in NYC!

Add another gem to Chelsea's 'Starchitect Row' - the much anticipated Metal Shutter Houses by Shigeru Ban are finally complete! Featuring a simple geometric construction set off by an ever-changing facade

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Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Concert Hall Made of Paper Opens in L’Aqila, Italy

Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Concert Hall Made of Paper Opens in L’Aqila, Italy

The concert hall, built from steel, glass, cardboard, concrete and clay sacks, seats 230 people inside an oval shaped room, which is set inside another structure. The exterior structure is square in

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Shigeru Ban’s Villa Vista is a Cantilevered Open Air Beauty in Sri Lanka

Shigeru Ban’s Villa Vista is a Cantilevered Open Air Beauty in Sri Lanka

The concrete home is located on a hilltop overlooking the ocean in Weligama, Sri Lanka, and is composed of a series of platforms accessed by stairs. A large overhanging roof covers the entire space and is

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Incredible Shigeru Ban Pompidou-Metz Art Museum Rises in France

Incredible Shigeru Ban Pompidou-Metz Art Museum Rises in France

Construction is nearly complete on Centre Pompidou-Metz, an incredible new extension of the original Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris. Designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines,

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Shigeru Ban’s 10 Unit Modular Furniture System

Shigeru Ban’s 10 Unit Modular Furniture System

This week Inhabitat favorite Shigeru Ban will be introducing his ‘10-Unit System’ for Artek at the 2009 Milan Furniture fair. Based completely on L-shaped units, the elegant modular furniture system

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SHIGERU BAN New York City Shutter Houses

SHIGERU BAN New York City Shutter Houses

Scaling his literal Curtain House into a larger and more dense development, Shigeru Ban's Shutter Houses are one part architecture, one part art, and one part pure poetry from one of our favorite

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Shigeru Ban’s Artek Pavillion made from recycled labels

Shigeru Ban’s Artek Pavillion made from recycled labels

Finnish company Artek is no stranger to innovative, eco-conscious design. Pioneered in 1935 by legendary Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto, Artek’s design philosophy has always been about

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CARDBOARD BRIDGE by Shigeru Ban

CARDBOARD BRIDGE by Shigeru Ban

You wouldn't expect cardboard to be strong enough to build a bridge, but that's exactly what ingenious architect Shigeru Ban decided to use to build a bridge across the Gardon River in his latest work of

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SHIGERU BAN PAPER CHURCH

SHIGERU BAN PAPER CHURCH

It's easy to get googly-eyed by the onslaught of amazing green design out there these days. But it's also important to look back a bit at some of the architectural precedent and acknowledge a building

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ECO-TECTURE: New York Times Focuses on Green Architecture

ECO-TECTURE: New York Times Focuses on Green Architecture

New York Times Magazine subscribers woke up on Sunday to find that their beloved magazine had done a full issue on green designers and thinkers. The magazine featured amongst other things interviews with

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ON IN LONDON: Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban

ON IN LONDON: Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban

Image by Kalevi A. Makinen, courtesy of the Barbican Art Gallery If you happen to be in London, you should hightail it over to the Barbican Art Gallery where one of the most talked about architectural

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SHIGERU BAN TV

SHIGERU BAN TV

Our favorite “light-on-the-eath” architect, Shigeru Ban, appears in a DesignBoom video interview discussing his latest venture in sustainable design: the Artek pavillion. Via DesignBoom

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