Shigeru Ban Style: Sustainable Architecture, Minimalism Most famous buildings: Paper Church (Kobe, Japan), Cardboard Cathedral (Christchurch, New Zealand), Centre Pompidou-Metz (France) ...

Shigeru Ban: Complete Works 1985 – Today (published by Taschen) celebrates the work of one of Japan’s best-known contemporary architects. Ban studied in the US in the 1970s and 1980s, where he was ...

The last time I visited Shigeru Ban’s office, it was on top of the Pompidou Centre. The Japanese architect had just won a competition to build a new Pompidou Centre, in Metz, but didn’t have ...

Shigeru Ban's undulating maze and bed for a papillon (or continental toy spaniel) is made by connecting everyday cardboard tubes (Image credit: Courtesy of ADI Design Museum. Photography by Hiroshi ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect, humanitarian, and Cooper Union alumnus Shigeru Ban gives the 2024 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture YC Foundation Lecture. The talk, “Balancing Architecture ...

Shigeru Ban, the 67-year-old Japanese architect is celebrated this year for combined career of innovative public buildings (the Centre Pompidou-Metz, La seine musicale, and Swatch Omega) and his ...

The Japan Art Association awarded the 67-year-old its annual architecture prize, for which the winner receives ¥15 million (£80,000). Ban set up his practice, Shigeru Ban Architects, in 1985 and, ...

Shigeru Ban Architects has since designed a number of notable buildings around the world, including the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France, the Tamedia Office Building in Switzerland and the Cardboard ...

Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, and designer of landmark buildings including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Aspen Art Museum and the Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, is ...

Shigeru Ban Architects (Tokyo) in association with Jean de Gastines (Paris) and Gumuchdjian Architects (London) won the design competition to build a new Centre Pompidou in the city of Metz on ...