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2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Field	Cardboard Cathedral 2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Teodoro González de León 1960 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2013	1960
Place	Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place context	Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Representative site: Miguel Hidalgo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico
Climate	Climate unavailable	21°C · 12.7h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Auditorio Nacional (Mexico)
Focus	Cathedral	2 works in corpus
Architects	Shigeru Ban	Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
Linked context	Bureaus Shigeru Ban Architects	Notable works Auditorio Nacional (Mexico) Reforma 222
Typologies	cathedral religious building temporary architecture	building tower
Materials	cardboard timber polycarbonate	glass
Carbon signals	Cardboard and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Cardboard Polycarbonate	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. 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.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.