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Shigeru Ban covers Swatch headquarters in vaulting timber shell

October 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Swatch and Omega Campus by Shigeru Ban

A double-curved timber shell constructed from 7,700 timber pieces forms the Swatch Headquarters by Shigeru Ban in Biel, Switzerland. The watchmaker’s campus centres on a 240-metre-long timber vault – one of the largest wooden structures in Europe, claims the practice. The timber gridshell – a double-curved gridded structure  – contains the Swatch Headquarters, snaking across the

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Shigeru Ban designs boutique hotel that winds through woodland in Japan

February 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel by Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan

A “seamless flow” of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. The practice of the Pritzker-prize winning architect designed the 10-room resort, called Shishi-Iwa House, to be “a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human

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Shigeru Ban proposes trio of pyramids for Kentucky Owl whiskey distillery

November 21, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is overhauling a quarry in Kentucky into a campus built from mass timber, for a local whiskey distillery. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect was chosen to transform the 420-acre (170-hectare) Cedar Creek Quarry in Kentucky’s Bardstown into a campus dedicated to the production of bourbon. Across a landscaped setting, called Kentucky Owl

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