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Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch City, New Zealand
Cardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard Cathedral

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard CathedralCardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Clorindo TestaClorindo Testa

1950-2013 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131950-2013
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandBuenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
ClimateClimate unavailable20°C · 11.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via National Library of Argentina
FocusCathedral3 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Clorindo Testa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • National Library of Argentina
  • Centro Cultural Recoleta
  • La Perla Spa
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • library
  • civic building
  • cultural building
  • building
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • concrete
  • glass
Carbon signals

Cardboard and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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