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Aspen Art Museum

Aspen Art Museum

Woven into Place: Shigeru Ban's first U.S. building since winning the Pritzker adds a landmark to a city's downtown while looking out to its Rocky Mountain setting.
David Hill
August 16, 2014
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Stand on the corner of South Spring Street and East Hyman Avenue in downtown Aspen, Colorado, and you see two entrances to Shigeru Ban’s box-like Aspen Art Museum, his first completed project in the United States since winning the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. To your right is the main entrance, a recessed section in the building’s striking woven-lattice exterior.


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Centre Pompidou-Metz

Under the Big Top: With a swoopy roof supported by a novel timber structure, the world-famous Centre Pompidou’s home for its first satellite challenges convention. Will it succeed?
Rowan Moore
July 19, 2010
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Shigeru Ban is an appealing architect. His emergency shelters of cardboard and paper, devised in response to disasters such as the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, present him as someone turning his skills to public benefit rather than personal gratification.


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Nicolas G. Hayek Center

Shigeru Ban sets showrooms and facades in motion at the Swatch Group’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center in Tokyo.
Naomi R. Pollock, FAIA
May 19, 2008
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Like an expertly crafted Swiss watch, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center is an assemblage of movable pieces that work together with machinelike precision.


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