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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

Studio LibeskindStudio Libeskind

Dublin, Ireland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2013Unrecorded
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandDublin, Ireland
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Dresden, Dresden, Germany
ClimateClimate unavailable12°C · 14.2h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Bundeswehr Military History Museum
FocusCathedral23 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Daniel Libeskind
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Bundeswehr Military History Museum
  • Contemporary Jewish Museum
  • Rogers Building (Toronto)
  • Felix Nussbaum Haus
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • museum
  • campus building
  • performance venue
  • house
  • history museum
  • cultural building
  • landscape
  • library
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • zinc
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

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

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