Shigeru Ban Architects
Architecture, Interiors, Mass Timber, Paper Architecture
Headquartered in Tokyo with offices in New York and Paris for over twenty years, Shigeru Ban Architects is one of the world’s leading architecture firms with over 200 built projects in dozens of cities around the world.
Among the firm’s most innovative and thought-provoking projects are many temporary and public buildings made with cardboard tubes; the Swatch/Omega Campus and Tamedia Office Building in Switzerland; Centre Pompidou-Metz and La Seine Musicale in France; SIMOSE Museum + Villas, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, and Toyota City Museum in Japan; the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado; and Cast Iron House—a commercial to residential conversion in a nationally recognized local NYC landmark—in New York City, among others.
Shigeru Ban Architects’ active projects span scale and typologies. Highlights include the Blue Ocean Dome for the Osaka World Expo 2025 in Japan; a mass timber hospital in Lviv, Ukraine; and housing in Vancouver, Miami, and Antwerp. The latter, “Beautiful Architecture Nieuw Zuid,” will be Belgium’s first timber skyscraper.
Widely published and awarded, Shigeru Ban and the firm were recognized with the PRIX Versailles and Praemium Imperiale Awards in 2024. In the U.S., Shigeru Ban Architects has collaborated with The Cooper Union, Eames Institute, The Glass House, Grohe, Rizzoli, Tiffany & Co., among other publishers, institutions, and brands.
Swatch/Omega Campus, the world’s largest mass timber building upon opening © Nicolas Grosmond
The Paper Log House at The Glass House © Paul Bickford
BAN - Beautiful Architecture Nieuw Zuid © Shigeru Ban Architects
L'Aquila Temporary Concert Hall © Fabio Mantovani
Kviv Hospital’s new surgical ward © Shigeru Ban Architects
Toyota City Museum © Hiroyuki Hirai
Terrace House © Shigeru Ban Architects
Blue Ocean Dome for the Osaka World Expo 2025 © Shigeru Ban Architects
Haesley Hamlet © Hiroyuki Hirai
Aspen Art Museum © Michael Moran
Tainan Art Museum © Shigeru Ban Architects
Cast Iron House © Michael Moran
Reception Building for SIMOSE Museum + Villas © Hiroyuki Hirai