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- Shigeru Bans Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center opens in Japan Wed, 3 Jan 18, 8:30pmJapan’s Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center, designed by Pritzker winner Shigeru Ban, is officially open to the public at a time when visibility of Japan’s highest peak is at its best. Located 20 miles southwest of Mt. Fuji...
- Elevated bamboo peace bridge for the Korean Demilitarized Zone unveiled by Shigeru Ban and Jae-Eun Choi Tue, 2 Jan 18, 11:40pmSouth Korean artist Jae-Eun Choi is teaming up with prolific architect Shigeru Ban to bridge a peaceful relationship between the two enemy nations of the Korean peninsula...
- Worlds tallest hybrid timber building to boast Vancouvers most expensive new apartments Mon, 11 Dec 17, 8:30pmNew details and renderings have been released of Shigeru Ban’s Terrace House, a collection of luxury homes in what will become the world’s tallest hybrid timber building...
- Shigeru Ban honored with Mother Teresa award for dedication to disaster relief architecture Fri, 17 Nov 17, 12:03amProlific architect and Pritzker Prize recipient, Shigeru Ban has been selected as one of the winners of the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice...
- Shigeru Ban designs 20,000 homes for severely overcrowded refugee camp in Kenya Fri, 21 Jul 17, 9:52pmWorld-renowned architect, Shigeru Ban, is taking his talents to those who need it most. Working in collaboration with UN-Habitat, the UN agency that focuses on sustainable development, the 2014 Pritzker Prize recipient designed...
- Giant glass orb in Paris is wrapped with a rotating solar sail that follows the sun Wed, 7 Jun 17, 8:46pmArchitects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines teamed up to create the stunning, solar-powered Seine Musicale located on Seguin Island in Paris. The shimmering glass globe is framed within by Ban's beloved timber, and its exterior...
- 10 groundbreaking designs by Shigeru Ban that changed our ideas about architecture Tue, 9 May 17, 5:01amShigeru Ban, one of Inhabitat's favorite architects, is renowned for his disaster relief design and his ingenious use of lightweight, unconventional, and environmentally responsible materials -- in particular, paper and bamboo...
- Ingenious cardboard and bamboo emergency shelters by Shigeru Ban pop up in Sydney Wed, 29 Mar 17, 10:45pmPritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is widely known and respected for his 20 year career in designing groundbreaking buildings from cardboard, paper and other unexpected materials, as well as his humanitarian...
- Giants of Japanese architecture design prototypes for houses of the future Mon, 8 Aug 16, 9:03pmShigeru Ban's Open House with Condensed Core proposes that plumbing water and waste could be funneled through the ceiling instead of floors to provide more organizational flexibility...
- House Vision 2 Expo: Japanese architects design prototypes for houses of the future Mon, 8 Aug 16, 9:03pmShigeru Ban's Open House with Condensed Core proposes that plumbing water and waste could be funneled through the ceiling instead of floors to provide more organizational flexibility...
- World's tallest hybrid timber tower by Shigeru Ban coming to Vancouver Tue, 12 Jul 16, 6:00pmPritzker laureate Shigeru Ban has been tapped to design his first building in Canada: an innovative high-rise set to be the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower once complete...
- Shigeru Ban uses shipping containers and paper tubes to create a surprising mobile museum Wed, 6 Jan 16, 5:00pmColbert originally contacted Ban in 2000 with the idea and the concept finally came to fruition after several years of evolving. The exterior walls of the structure are made up of shipping containers placed in a checkerboard...
- Shigeru Ban will reuse earthquake rubble to build Nepal relief shelters Mon, 27 Jul 15, 11:00pmShigeru Ban and his humanitarian organization Volunteer Architects Network (VAN) announced plans to build emergency shelters for Nepal back in May, but it wasn’t until now that the prototype designs were released...
- Shigeru Ban transforms 90,000 eye shadow containers into a glittering wave at the Venice Biennale Thu, 21 May 15, 3:00pmJapanese architect Shigeru Ban has transformed thousands of empty eye shadow containers into a glistening wave for the Venice Biennale. Entitled “Reverberation- Pavilion of Light and Sound,” the piece upcycles 90,000...
- 10 Incredible Designs by Pritzker Prize Laureate Shigeru Ban Thu, 21 May 15, 3:01amCardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand Shigeru Ban designed, pro-bono, this stunning temporary Cardboard Cathedral for Christchurch following a devastating earthquake in 2011...