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When Shigeru Ban was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2014, he sat for interviews at 524 West 19th Street on a couch in the living room of Apartment 6. It’s the largest unit in the first ...
Ban at his office in Paris’s Marais neighborhood. Behind him, stored on shelving made from his signature recycled paper tubes, are models of past projects, including his Epcot sphere-like La ...
Shigeru Ban has just been announced the winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize ... where he often employed his signature water- and fire-proofed paper structures.
Shigeru Ban’s Hannover Pavilion, 2000. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, his signature material might: Paper. Ban pioneered the use of cardboard as a structural material, with which he began ...
Shigeru Ban has released plans for his “Nepal Project”—modular, wood-framed structures that can be assembled quickly and easily, to house victims of this April’s devastating earthquakes in Nepal that ...
Tiffany & Co. continues to evolve its retail footprint, debuting a new facade for its Palo Alto, Calif., store envisioned by acclaimed architect Shigeru Ban. “When designing, I always start from ...
To celebrate Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's long dedication to humanitarian design, two of his signature disaster relief shelters have been erected in the Courtyard Garden ...
Paper Log Houses by Shigeru Ban, in Kobe, Japan, 1999. On March 24, 2014, the Japanese architect was named the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, largely because of his work designing ...
Prolific 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, one of the world’s most brilliant architects, is generally the quiet type, both in demeanor and design. That made him quite out of place at the new Camper store on the corner of ...