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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
One of architecture’s most important prizes has gone to a man who builds low-cost, recyclable buildings and structures.
Shigeru Ban is the winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
For more than 20 years, Ban has been travelling to parts of the world where buildings have been destroyed by war or natural disasters like hurricanes.
In September, Daniels Spectrum opened its doors.
Daniels Spectrum is a wonderful new 60,000-square-foot facility set up to help people learn art and business, including music and painting classes and moviemaking.
It even includes a Centre for Social Innovation where people with ideas for new businesses work with creative people to think up new ways to make communities better.
It is all part of the rebirth of Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood that has been taking place for more than 10 years.
In China, they’re planning to build some very funny-shaped buildings.
One is a hotel shaped like a giant ping pong paddle. It even has a huge ping pong ball out front! The building will be 150 metres tall. The windows in each room of the hotel will be round, forming the ping pong paddle’s rough texture. The “handle” of the hotel will be an observation deck, where visitors can look out over the city of Huainan, China.
Another strange building they are planning is a stadium shaped like a football.
