After devastation comes imagination.
As an iconic piece symbolizing the destruction in Christchurch, New Zealand, following a February 2011 earthquake, the Christchurch Cathedral will make a crackling comeback in time for the earthquake’s one-year anniversary. And the comeback comes packed in cardboard.
The 6.3-magnitude quake completely eliminated the Anglican church’s bell tower and badly damaged a key symbol of the city, originally built in 1864. To help residents start the rebuilding process, Tokyo-based architect Shigeru Ban has – pro bono, no less – designed a temporary cathedral to hold 700 people out of one of his feature mediums: cardboard.
Using 86 paper tubes each weighing over 1,100 pounds, placed on a foundation of 20-foot shipping containers, the new cathedral will open on Feb. 22, 2012, one year after the earthquake. The A-framed structure will top out at 78 feet, about the same height as the original Christchurch bell
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