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Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch City, New Zealand

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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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2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2013Unrecorded
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Dresden, Dresden, Germany
ClimateClimate unavailable6°C · 14.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Dresden Hauptbahnhof
FocusCathedral55 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Norman Foster
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Dresden Hauptbahnhof
  • Reichstag building
  • British Library of Political and Economic Science
  • Cohen House, London
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • building
  • library
  • education
  • house
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • gallery
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
  • steel
  • granite
  • ETFE
  • wood
  • concrete
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

Concrete, Steel, and ETFE look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • ETFE
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.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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