dezeen (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Tokyo Designers Week 09: Tokyo Designers Week has started and Dezeen produced the official guide to the event. In this first in a series of short interviews commissioned for the guide, architect Shigeru Ban responds to the festival’s theme, green design.
Curbed (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Things are heating up in the West Chelsea Starchitecture District, and not because of the sunlight bouncing off all that metal and glass. Recently, the first closings happened at Selldorf's 200 Eleventh Avenue and Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue (reportedly—we're still waiting on something to hit public record), and now the ink has dried on the first deal at Shigeru Ban's Metal Shutter Houses...
Commercial Interior Design & Visual Merchandising (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Those of you are familiar with the work of Shigeru Ban will be aware of how phenomenal this Architect is. Probably one of the most famous pieces of work from this Japanese Architect are the paper tube structures he used for Takatori Catholic Church in Kobe, Japan. Ban is probably the most radical and influential experimentalist in industry - I am certainly a fan. It is therefore no surprise...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Floating around on the blogolump come some photos of the new Pompidou by Shigeru Ban + Jean de Gastine | via Narq | On flickr... by perdus
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Fragrance makers Artek team up with Dover Street Market for an installation in salute to Artek’s recent project alongside COMME des GARCONS for the duo’s STANDARD Fragrance. Entitled “10-Unit System” the furniture concept stands in the front window of Dover Street Market in London, created by Shigeru Ban. A further look into the project can [...]
Fashionista.com (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Dover Street Market's a cool place. The four story department store's owned by Commes Des Garçons' Rei Kawabuko and her husband, Adrian Joffe and it has one of the most interesting edits in the world. Included in the heady mix is a line of furniture by Finnish company Artek, called “10-Unit System”, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, that essentially makes the buyer an artist....
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
This striking structure is the work of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. It houses one of the electric powered tugs that worked on the Burgundy Canal until the 1930s, and is part of the Cap Canal museum at Pouilly-en-Auxois in France which we visited recently. By any criterea this is a remarkable work of art, but it becomes quite exceptional when it is explained that this is one of Shigeru...
