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Paper Church – Kobe. Year: 1995. Status: Completed. Location: Japan. Type: New-built. Program: Place of Worship. This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in the fire following the Kobe Earthquake of 1995. The Paper Church was built within only five weeks by 160 volunteers ...
11 de jun. de 2024 · The earthquake caused irreversible damage to a high-profile neo-Gothic Anglican Cathedral in the city. As the city of Christchurch began to recover, a need emerged for a temporary venue for worship and events. Renowned architect and 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban was approached to lend his expertise. Despite being delayed in Japan due ...
19 de ago. de 2013 · A temporary replacement for a cathedral that was destroyed in the February, 2011 earthquake that rocked Christchurch, Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral will host its first service this month. ,
18 de nov. de 2014 · Shigeru Ban is known as “The American” in Japan and, as any born-and-bred Cantabrian will proudly tell you, Christchurch was a Church of England settlement. The first ships carrying British settlers arrived in December 1850, building huts along the Avon River in the area now designated as North Hagley Park.
The building was designed pro bono by Shigeru Ban, who is characterised as a "disaster architect"; Ban collaborated with Christchurch architecture firm Warren and Mahoney.[4] In August 2011, it was reported that a new cathedral would open in February 2012, A-frame in style, rising 78 feet (24 m) in height, would incorporate 86 cardboard tubes of 1,100 pounds each atop 20 feet (6.1 m) long ...
Im Jahre 1856 entwickelte der damalige Bischof von Christchurch, Henry John Chitty Harper, die Idee, eine zentral liegende Kathedrale in der Region Canterbury zu bauen. Sein Vorbild war seinerzeit die Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, England. Bereits zwei Jahre später standen rund 1000 britische Pfund für den Bau einer derartigen Kathedrale ...
21 de ago. de 2013 · The poetry of replacing the collapsed stone weight of a cathedral with the seemingly fragile lightness of a 'paper church' speaks for itself (Ban's term translates into 98 cardboard tubes, each 600mm in diameter and 17m-22m long, supported by wooden beams and protected by a roof of translucent polycarbonate sheets); and Ban, like other poets, brushes away further analysis.
