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Shigeru Ban Architects

Material experiments spanning museums, workplaces and disaster response.

An approach to architecture

Shigeru Ban Architects tests the structural and spatial possibilities of timber, paper tubes and other materials. Permanent cultural buildings sit alongside the practice’s work on emergency and transitional shelter.

Cultural buildingsTimber structuresHumanitarian design

People & attribution

Shigeru Ban

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Representative projects

Hoebele · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credits & changes

Museum2010

Centre Pompidou-Metz

Shigeru Ban Architects

Metz · France

Bkthomson16 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credits & changes

Museum2014

Aspen Art Museum

Shigeru Ban Architects

Aspen · United States

GAD / PROJECT FILETamedia Office BuildingZurich · 2013Project reference · photography at source

Office2013

Tamedia Office Building

Shigeru Ban Architects

Zurich · Switzerland

GAD / PROJECT FILELa Seine MusicaleBoulogne-Billancourt · 2017Project reference · photography at source

Cultural2017

La Seine Musicale

Shigeru Ban Architects

Boulogne-Billancourt · France

Schwede66 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credits & changes

Religious2013

Cardboard Cathedral

Shigeru Ban Architects

Christchurch · New Zealand