Endless possibilities unfold

By Ray Edgar
Updated June 6 2014 - 10:19am, first published April 19 2014 - 3:00am
Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo: Stephen Goodenough
Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo: Stephen Goodenough

Two years after the 2011 earthquake destroyed Christchurch's neo-Gothic cathedral, the building has been resurrected. It has also undergone something of a public transfiguration. The symbolic heart of the city of churches has become an international icon for sustainability. The new A-frame cathedral is made of humble cardboard. Meanwhile its architect, Shigeru Ban, is the newly anointed recipient of architecture's highest prize, the Pritzker.

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