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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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Cardboard CathedralCardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Herbert BakerHerbert Baker

1892 · London, England, United Kingdom

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131892
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandLondon, England, United Kingdom
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Bouquet Street, Cape Town Ward 115, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
ClimateClimate unavailable17°C · 11.1h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
FocusCathedral43 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Herbert Baker
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
  • St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
  • State House, Nairobi
  • St Boniface Church, Germiston
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • housing
  • house
  • office
  • civic building
  • church
  • sacred space
  • cathedral
  • chapel
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • timber
  • brick
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

Brick and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • Stone
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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible14 of 14 recorded works are publicly accessible
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