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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

Peter BehrensPeter Behrens

1903 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131903
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandBerlin, Berlin, Germany
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Bezirk Mitte, Bezirk Mitte, Germany
ClimateClimate unavailable13°C · 14.3h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via AEG turbine factory
FocusCathedral6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Peter Behrens
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • AEG turbine factory
  • Embassy of Germany, Saint Petersburg
  • Bernauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)
  • Voltastraße (Berlin U-Bahn)
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • building
  • house
  • office
  • civic building
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
  • steel
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

Steel, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Steel
  • Glass
  • 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.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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