Abitare : Interview: Shigeru Ban https://www.abitare.it/en/architecture/projects/2025/06/02/interview-shigeru-ban/ #ShigeruBan #Projects

Simose Art Museum marks its Prix Versailles architectural award with an exhibition highlighting nine contemporary artists who reflect on history, place and transformation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/15/art/simose-art-museum-contemporary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #simoseartmuseum #shigeruban #architecture #exhibitions

https://www.alojapan.com/1249835/shigeru-bans-expo-2025-osaka-pavilion-calls-to-protect-the-oceans/ shigeru ban’s expo 2025 osaka pavilion calls to protect the oceans #ArchitectureInJapan #domes #Expo2025Osaka #news #OceanAwarenessAndActivism #Osaka #OsakaNews #ShigeruBan #TemporaryPavilions #WoodAndTimberArchitectureAndDesign #大阪 #大阪府 the Architecture of Urgency at expo 2025 osaka   At Expo 2025 Osaka, where nations converge to envision the future, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban brings a statement of environmental aware…

Ogijima en septembre (2024)

https://www.ogijima.fr/ogijima-en-septembre-2024/

Croyez-le ou non, je n’étais pas allé à Ogijima depuis le printemps dernier pour tout un tas de raisons pas assez intéressantes pour les détailler. Sauf peut-être la plus récente : l’été qui vient de s’achever a été simplement trop chaud pour passer la moindre journée dehors. Pendant près de deux mois, la température ressentie avoisinait, voire dépassait, les 40°C. Il y a […]

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>Architektur: „Ich war enttäuscht von meinem eigenen Beruf. Wir arbeiten für Privilegierte“ - WELT<

#ShigeruBan zur Chance und Bedeutung von #Architektur

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https://www.welt.de/iconist/trends/article252890298/Architektur-Ich-war-enttaeuscht-von-meinem-eigenen-Beruf-Wir-arbeiten-fuer-Privilegierte.html

The mayor of Lviv in western Ukraine has warned that the possibility of a Russian attack on Japan cannot be ruled out, given its history of invading neighboring countries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/05/japan/ukraine-mayor-russia-japan/ #japan #russiaukrainewar #lviv #andriysadovyi #shigeruban

Architect Shigeru Ban and artist Matazo Kayama blend tradition and innovation as the immersive museum celebrates its first anniversary. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/05/11/art/simose-art-museum-shigeru-ban-matazo-kayama/ #culture #art #simoseartmuseum #shigeruban #matazokayama #architecture

Tours of revamped public restrooms in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward were launched earlier this month to dispel the traditional perception of the facilities as being dirty and smelly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/24/japan/society/revamped-public-toilets-tours/ #japan #society #tokyo #toyoito #shibuya #architecture #kengokuma #shigeruban #toilets

#NowPlaying #SteveRoden “Winter Couplet” was created for the 2002 L.A. Freewaves festival. It was made using the sounds of 2 tea cups and played through 8 speakers connected to cardboard tubes. The tubes acted as resonators, inspired by the work of architect #ShigeruBan. This version is a stereo mix of the original work. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/winter-couplet

Today's #PhotoOfTheDay visits Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
After Christ Church Cathedral was severely damaged in the 2011 earthquake a decision was made to build a temporary replacement while the cathedral was rebuilt. Shigeru Ban was approached to build one using cardboard and the Cardboard Cathedral was born.
#photography #aotearoa #NewZealand #christchurch #cathedral #CardboardCathedral #StainedGlass #ShigeruBan #cardboard #travel

A few days ago, I showed you Ogijima Pavilion being under construction.
Interested in seeing it complete?
#setouchitriennale2022 #setouchitriennale #ogijima #shigeruban #oscaroiwa #art #architecture #Japan

https://www.setouchiexplorer.com/ogijima-pavilion-by-oscar-oiwa-shigeru-ban-setouchi-triennale-2022/

Shigeru Ban builds modular partitions to offer privacy to Ukrainians in emergency shelters

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has installed his Paper Partition System across temporary shelters in Europe that are housing Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.

Installed by Ban with the Voluntary Architects' Network non-governmental organisation (NGO), which he founded in 1995, the modular system offers privacy to people seeking refuge in the hastily constructed refugee centres.

Shigeru Ban has installed his Paper Partition System in refugee shelters housing displaced Ukrainians

The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five minutes to build with the help of three people.

Since the war began in the early hours of 24 February, the system has been used in shelters in Lviv in western Ukraine, in Poland and France. It is due to be rolled out in refugee centres in Germany and Slovakia too.

One of the installations is in Wroclaw Railway Station. Photo is by Maciej Bujko

PPS was created by BAN in 2011 as a deliberately simple solution to increase privacy in vast evacuation centres housing people made homeless by natural disasters.

It was first used in shelters following the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) and has since been repurposed for Covid-19 vaccination booths and now refugees escaping conflict.

They have also been used in a pair of gymnasiums in Paris

Ban presented the project last week in a webinar hosted by the EU's New European Bauhaus – an interdisciplinary initiative with a focus on the European Green Deal – for which he is a key member and with whom he has collaborated on the rollout in Poland.

During the event, he said he felt compelled to help after seeing refugees gathering in shelters that offer little in the way of privacy.

The system offers privacy to refugees by dividing up the shelters

"After the war started, I saw the situation of refugees gathering, staying under the big roof of a gymnasium without any privacy," Ban explained.

"I believe that privacy is a basic human right," he stated. "I saw my solution of paper partitions, which I developed for the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as appropriate."

The system requires a team of three people to build

The PPS system makes use of round cardboard tubes as a structure, over which paper or fabrics are draped.

Fastened with a safety pin, the fabric forms the partitions and divides a space up into sections similar to shared hospital wards.

The main framework is based on cardboard tubes used to store paper

The tubes that make up the structure are the same as those used to roll up and store fabric or paper but in longer lengths. They are also made in two diameters to form posts and beams.

When combined, the units vary between two by two metres or 2.3 by 2.3 metres depending on the size of beds they contain.

The tubes come in two different sizes

Ban's eponymous studio is currently funding the scheme, while a number of companies are donating fabric and cardboard tubes.

The first installations were in Chełm and Wrocław in Poland. Through the networks of the New European Bauhaus, they were built by Ban in collaboration with a number of Polish architects, students and volunteers.

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In Chełm – the first stop in Poland for train lines from central and northern Ukraine – the system was deployed in a vacant supermarket, while in Wrocław, they helped transform a rail depot into a shelter.

Over in Paris, the system has been used to compartmentalise two gymnasiums housing refugees.

The fabric is folded over the poles and secured with a safety pin

Kyiv practice Balbek Bureau is another architecture studio to develop a modular system for people made homeless during the war in Ukraine. Named Re:Ukraine, the blueprint proposes "temporary but dignified" refugee villages based on a standardised timber-framed box that can be fitted with different interiors.

Other notable architects and studios who have responded to the war include David Chipperfield, Foster + Partners, MVRDV and Herzog & de Meuron – all of which have withdrawn from their projects in Russia.

Elsewhere, Latvian studio OUTOFBOX and London studio Adam Khan Architects are among the companies rallying to help Ukrainian refugees find work across Europe.

The photography is byNicolas Grosmond unless stated.

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shigeru ban and VAN install paper partition shelters for ukranian refugees in poland

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Shigeru Ban designs meditation retreat overlooking Awaji Island mountains

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed a wooden meditation retreat named Zenbo Seinei, which is nearing completion on a verdant site on the Awaji Island in Japan.

Slated to open in spring, Zenbo Seinei will take the form of a long and slender wooden structure elevated on one side by steel columns.

It is being designed by Ban for Japanese company Pasona Group, which oversees a number of facilities on Awaji Island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea.

The retreat will focus on healthy food and mindfulness and is aimed at tourists who want to escape from cities to a natural environment.

Retreat will allow visitors to "experience zazen"

Ban's elongated building is now under construction on a leafy spot in the northern part of the island.

Once complete, it will measure 90 metres in length and 7.2 metres in width. It will also feature a 100-meter-long wooden deck, designed as an open-air platform for zazen, a form of sitting meditation.

Shigeru Ban has designed a wooden meditation retreat for Awaji Island

"We planned an accommodation facility where you can experience zazen on a small site with abundant nature on Awaji Island," explained Shigeru Ban Architects.

Pasona Group said it has been developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which led "to major shifts in people's attitudes and values towards life and work".

"Amidst this, there has been a growing interest in opportunities to reassess one's own contentment in environments rich in nature, and in lifestyles that promote physical and mental well-being," the company added.

Restaurant forms part of design

Alongside the meditation spaces, Zenbo Seinei will contain guest accommodation and a restaurant serving dishes made from local vegetables as well as foods enjoyed by Buddhist monks.

On the surrounding 3,000-square-metre site, Ban is also designing an open-air bath and a cafe with a series of wooden huts for use in the future.

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Ban founded Shigeru Ban Architects in Tokyo in 1985. He was named the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2014 and was selected as an ambassador for the EU's New European Bauhaus in 2021.

His studio also recently completed the Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan and a boutique hotel that winds through Japanese woodland.

Other retreats featured on Dezeen include a series of cave-like brick-clad pods in China by Studio Avoid and a proposal for a boutique eco-resort in the USA by Jendretzki Design.

The visuals are courtesy of Pasona Group.

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shigeru ban is designing a zen wellness center for awaji island in japan

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