Cardboard cathedral

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The Cardboard Cathedral in the New Zealand town of Christchurch, designed by architecture legend Shigeru Ban, serves as a replacement for the city’s iconic 1864...

I bought a model to assemble of the famous Chartres Cathedral in the Cathedral gift shop, and this entry will track how I put it together. The model is large, at least 2 1/2 feed long and a foot or so wide. Its pretty complex with a lot of little parts (mostly the flying buttresses),

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When civil war struck Rwanda, countless families lost their homes. So the United Nations supplied metal bars and plastic tarp as materials for temporary shelter. But it didn't work out as expected. The metal was sold on the black market and trees were chopped down to replace it, exacerbating wartime deforestation. For reasons nobody expected, the humanitarian aid was counterproductive. Reading about the debacle, a young Japanese architect named Shigeru Ban came up with an alternative. Ban…

The Cardboard Cathedral by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens today in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Image 7 of 13 from gallery of Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral Underway in New Zealand. Photograph by Shigeru Ban Architects

On 4th September 2010 Christchurch was hit by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which caused significant damage to older buildings in the centre of the city. Five months later, at 12.51pm on 22nd Februar…

Cardboard Cathedral by Shigeru Ban - triangular glass etched with images from the original cathedral’s facade

Cardboard Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand Drawing Sketch

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Since geometry is decided by plan and elevations of the original cathedral, there is a gradual change in each angle of paper tubes. This cathedral, which has a capacity of 700 people, can be used as an event space and a concert space.

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