Interior design isn’t just about pretty wallpaper: These innovative rooms reimagine what an indoor space can be. Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors, a coffee table book out this month from Phaidon, ...

News: the Cardboard Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens to the public today in Christchurch, New Zealand. The building was designed by Shigeru Ban as a temporary replacement for ...

The day before the second anniversary of the cataclysmic and fatal earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, architect Shigeru Ban stood in the half-finished nave of the “cardboard cathedral” he ...

On September 1, 2013, the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, had its Civic Opening. Measuring 8,611-square-feet, it is the latest and the largest paper tube structure designed by the ...

In Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the world’s most unprepossessing contemporary churches manages to be among the most spectacular and celebrated. Colloquially called the “Cardboard ...

Early on the morning of September 4, 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage. This was followed by a 6.3 magnitude quake on February 22, 2011 ...

Shigeru Ban’s temporary cardboard cathedral finally got the green light to be erected in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now called the “Transitional Cathedral”, the building will replace a 19th century ...

In February 2011 a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand took 185 lives, ravaged the downtown area, and destroyed the city’s iconic, 132-year-old Gothic cathedral. Now, just over two and ...

Construction will soon begin on a cardboard cathedral to temporarily replace Christ Church Cathedral. The designer, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, will turn the soil on the cathedral's planned site ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) – Christchurch's cardboard cathedral officially opens on Thursday, replacing the neo-Gothic structure destroyed in a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people in New Zealand's second ...

The temporary A-framed structure will be finished by the end of 2012 The old Anglican cathedral was badly damaged by the 2011 earthquake which struck the city Bishop of Christchurch, Victoria Mathews ...