Shigeru Ban news

Büro Ole Scheeren and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban have been appointed to create a masterplan for the Hangzhou Wangjiang New Town project in China. ... More

The new home for Brazil’s 50-year-old Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) is entering the final stages of its development, with the Diller Scofidio + ... More

French designer Philippe Starck has joined forces with hospitality giant The Hilton Group to create a surreal, 14-storey hotel in Metz, France. The property will ... More

Indian architect Professor Balkrishna Doshi has today (7 March) been selected as the winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award – widely regarded ... More

Acclaimed Japanese architect Sejima Kazuyo has been appointed the newest member of the Pritzker Prize Jury, tasked with selecting the next winner of architecture’s most ... More

The Pritzker-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed the dramatic Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, with a design that mimics the famous ... More

As 2017 draws to an end, CLAD looks back at some of the most significant leisure buildings, both big and small, that have opened this ... More

A host of the world’s most high-profile architecture practices have entered the race to design a new branch of the Pompidou Centre art museum in ... More

Shigeru Ban’s €170m (US$189.4m, £145.2m) concert venue for Paris has opened on an island in the Seine. Designed with French architect Jean de Gastines on ... More

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have today (1 March) been selected as the winners of the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award – ... More

The winner of the 2017 Pritzker Prize for architecture will be revealed on Wednesday 1 March, it has been announced. The much-anticipated news will be ... More

Architecture studio OMA are shifting their business model to place more emphasis on developing their own projects rather than competing for work. In an exclusive ... More

A video has been released providing an insight into the design process behind Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum (AAM), which opened to the public last ... More

This week leisure architecture was celebrated in two high-profile competitions: RIBA’s first International Prize and the Aga Khan Architecture Award. The first is seeking the ... More

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a bumper shortlist in its bid to celebrate the world's best building. Zaha Hadid, Bjarke Ingels, ... More

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has told CLAD about the responsibility he feels as an architect to combine “monumental” public buildings with disaster relief projects ... More

Dutch design studio Mecanoo have won the architecture competition to design the new Tainan Public Library in Taiwan. The firm – known for their innovative ... More

W Hotels Worldwide has today (20 January) announced it will open its first alpine retreat in North America: a chalet and cocktail bar in Colorado's ... More

Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. The Pritzker Prize – widely regarded as architecture's highest accolade – ... More

The world of architecture will hold its collective breath at 10am Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday 13 January, as the 2016 winner of the Pritzker ... More

The Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton has been awarded the prize for ‘Best Architecture & Spatial Design’ at the 2015 Leading Culture Destinations Awards in ... More

Shigeru Ban’s latest project – the Oita Prefectural Art Museum – has opened in Japan, becoming an artistic piece in its own right to inspire ... More

“With big projects like this one, there's always going to be controversy,” said Nicolas Moreau, co-founder of Moreau Kusunoki, the Paris-based practice that won the ... More

Architect Shigeru Ban’s newly-opened art museum in Japan has been designed to serve as an outside space to be freely used by all – connecting ... More

Following an epic week at MIPIM, the 25th MIPIM Award winners were announced last night – 12 March. Leisure architecture once again proved to be ... More