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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

Raj Rewal AssociatesRaj Rewal Associates

1971 · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131971
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: New Delhi, Delhi, India
ClimateClimate unavailable37°C · 13.0h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Hall of Nations
FocusCathedral5 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Raj Rewal
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Hall of Nations
  • State Trading Corporation building
  • Asian Games Village (New Delhi)
  • Central Institute of Educational Technology
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • civic building
  • exhibition hall
  • office building
  • housing
  • residential complex
  • urban housing
  • education building
  • institution
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • concrete
  • masonry
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

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

  • Concrete
  • Brick
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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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