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Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch City, New Zealand
Cardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Cardboard Cathedral image

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

Swan & Maclaren GroupSwan & Maclaren Group

1892 · Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131892
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandSingapore, Singapore, Singapore
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Cecil, Cecil, Singapore
ClimateClimate unavailable28°C · 12.2h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church
FocusCathedral10 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Swan & Maclaren Group
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church
  • Goodwood Park Hotel
  • Vanguard Building
  • David Elias Building
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • church
  • sacred space
  • house
  • hospitality
  • landscape
  • education
  • campus building
  • civic building
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter.

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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.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
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