World toilets that are memorable for all the right reasons

Recognising that even the most basic of human needs warrants an elevated experience, those responsible for public ...
The Aspen Times

Aspen Art Museum celebrates 10 years of Shigeru Ban’s landmark design

It’s been a decade since the Shigeru Ban-designed Aspen Art Museum (AAM) on the corner of South Spring Street and East Hyman Avenue opened its doors. To mark the occasion, Ban is returning to Aspen ...
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Shigeru Ban receives 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Shigeru Ban will receive the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prize, made the announcement on Monday. Shigeru Ban, a ...
KCRW

Pritzker Winner Shigeru Ban Learned About Japanese Architecture in Los Angeles

Reaction to the selection of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban for this year’s Pritzker Prize has been fast and favorable, with critics agreeing the architecture unites beauty, sustainability and ...
Reuters

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban awarded 2014 Pritzker prize

(Reuters) - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, noted for his airy modernist designs and humanitarian work, has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the top award in the field, organizers said on ...
Architectural Record

Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

The Museum's focus on mass timber and wood, in conjunction with the exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood, continues this fall with a webinar & book talk on the work of Shigeru Ban ...
Complex

Innovative Architect Shigeru Ban Designs New Aspen Art Museum

In 2008 it was announced that the Aspen Art Museum's new space would be designed by international architect Shigeru Ban, famous for works like the Nomadic Museum, Centre Pompidou-Metz, and the ...
Observer

Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect born on August 5, 1957, renowned for his innovative use of materials and focus on sustainability. He is particularly famous for using paper and cardboard tubes in ...
Curbed

The Biggest Apartment in Shigeru Ban’s First U.S. Condo

The terrace of Unit 6, which spans the entire Shigeru Ban building on West 19th Street and was used as the model for a book on Ban’s work from 1985 to 2010. Photo: Scott Wintrow The building showcases ...
Architectural Record

Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House Meets Glass—and Brick—at Historic Philip Johnson Estate

The freshly launched 2024 visitor season at Philip Johnson’s Glass House is a significant one. Not only does the National Trust for Historic Preservation–owned house museum’s namesake dwelling turn 75 ...

Slalom chic: Niseko’s ski lodges zigzag between styles

I don’t think there is a [contemporary] Japanese ski aesthetic,” asserts Vincent McIlduff of ALT Design and Construction, the ...