Cardboard tubes are among the materials that Shigeru Ban used to construct the Blue Ocean Dome pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.

More impressive still is the emergency housing that Ban has been designing and building in the world’s disaster zones since the mid-1990s, also using cardboard tubes.

Most of the interior is still made of cardboard tubes, though, including the shelves behind Ban, which are packed with models and books, including Taschen’s huge blockbuster Shigeru Ban ...

Discover Shigeru Ban, the 35th Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale, known for innovative humanitarian architecture using sustainable materials.

Its solutions have included paper-tube walled houses for Kobe Earthquake victims; a cardboard cathedral as a temporary place of worship in Christchurch, New Zealand; and paper log houses in Antakya, ...

The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, a master of refined spectacle, once unfurled some bolts of fabric for an exhibition he was designing, then schlepped home the cardboard tubes.

Selections from an immense new monograph about Japanese architect Shigeru Ban reveal an amazing range of forms, many of which center on the humble cardboard tube and elemental forms that allowed ...

Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA) has installed The Paper Log House on the grounds of Philip Johnson ’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The prefabricated shelter made of paper tubes, canvas ...

Shigeru Ban's Paper Log House at The Glass House: a groundbreaking structure crafted from paper, wood, and milk crates.

Configured as a traditional gabled roofed home, the Paper Log House concept stemmed from Ban’s desire to reduce waste. He began experimenting with the idea of using paper tubes – harnessed by locally ...

Shigeru Ban has created a house from paper tubes and milk crates to mark the 75th anniversary of Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut, USA.