Cheap, environmentally friendly and easy to manufacture, the temporary cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand is being built out of it. So is flatpack housing the way forward? Cardboard? Really? It’s the common reaction to the idea of making buildings out of thick paper, such as the temporary cardboard cathedral announced for Christchurch, New Zealand, whose Read More
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Cardboard Centre for Culture
While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Garage will occupy the pavilion during the entire construction period, which will see a 1960s building in Stalinist-era Gorky Read More
Cardboard Vase Designs
These jewel-like vases from German design duo snug.studio are assembled from flat sheets of cardboard. The Snug Vases come as a flat-pack, ready to be folded into shape and placed over a glass or bottle of water. The vases come in two sizes and three colours – white, grey and copper. Hanover-based snug.studio was founded Read More