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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban addresses an award ceremony after winning the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2024.

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Praemium Imperiale award winners in Tokyo

The winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts award, (from L) Shigeru Ban, Sophie Calle, Maria Joao Pires, Doris Salcedo and Ang Lee line up for photos in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2024.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 13, 2024, shows partitions between living spaces set up in an evacuation center in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1. The partitions developed by internationally famed Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of paper tubes and cloth, were also used for people displaced by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan and Ukrainian people living in shelters outside their country.

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Lviv mayor, Japanese architect call for support for building hospital

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban hold a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2023. They called for Japan's support in building a new surgical ward designed by the architect at a hospital in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, which harbors many fleeing and injured civilians from the war-torn areas within the country.

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Lviv mayor, Japanese architect call for support for building hospital

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi (R) and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban hold a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2023. They called for Japan's support in building a new surgical ward designed by the architect at a hospital in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, which harbors many fleeing and injured civilians from the war-torn areas within the country.

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Lviv mayor, Japanese architect call for support for building hospital

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi (R) and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban hold a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2023. They called for Japan's support in building a new surgical ward designed by the architect at a hospital in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, which harbors many fleeing and injured civilians from the war-torn areas within the country.

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Lviv mayor, Japanese architect call for support for building hospital

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi (R) and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban hold a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2023. They called for Japan's support in building a new surgical ward designed by the architect at a hospital in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, which harbors many fleeing and injured civilians from the war-torn areas within the country.

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Oita Pref. to open new museum next April

OITA, Japan - The Oita Prefectural Art Museum, designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is unveiled to citizens on Nov. 23, 2014. The museum in Oita City, southwestern Japan is set to open in April 2015.

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Architect Ban at Asia Game Changer Awards ceremony

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (C), a recipient of the Asia Game Changer Awards from the Asia Society, attends an award ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Oct. 16, 2014. He was honored "for finding beauty, and hope, in the landscapes of disaster" through his work in designing disaster relief shelters in Japan and abroad.

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Architect Ban to receive Asia "Game Changer" awards

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban is among the first group to receive the Game Changer Awards, a new award for leadership from the Asia Society, the organization said Sept. 16, 2014. Ban was recognized for his work designing disaster relief shelters which used recyclable cardboard paper tubes.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Senior lawmakers of Japan's ruling bloc attend a meeting on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss the proposed removal of the self-imposed ban on the right to collective self-defense. (From L) New Komeito party Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue, New Komeito deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa, Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba were among them.

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Ruling bloc apart on collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa (L) attends a meeting with Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura (C) and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo on June 17, 2014, to discuss the government's drive to lift Japan's self-imposed ban on collective self-defense. The government set out on the day its draft overview of a Cabinet decision that would enable Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, but the ruling parties remained divided over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for the major policy change.

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Pritzker-winning architect Ban

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban gives a speech at the ceremony at which he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize at the Amsterdam national museum in the Netherlands on June 13, 2014.

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Pritzker-winning architect Ban

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (C) attends the ceremony at which he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize at the Amsterdam national museum in the Netherlands on June 13, 2014.

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Model of Onagawa Station designed by Pritzker winner Ban

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2014 shows a model of East Japan Railway Co.'s new Onagawa Station in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The northeastern Japan town was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Architect Ban wins Pritzker prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in Tokyo on March 22, 2014. Ban has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's sponsor organization said March 24.

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Cardboard cathedral in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2013, shows a cardboard cathedral completed in Christchurch, New Zealand, which Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (R) designed. The cathedral was constructed near a cathedral damaged by a devastating earthquake that struck the city in February 2011.

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Cardboard cathedral in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2013, shows the inside of a cardboard cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, after its completion. The cathedral, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, was constructed near a cathedral damaged by a devastating earthquake that struck the city in February 2011.

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Cardboard cathedral in New Zealand

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (L) stands on Sept. 2, 2013, in a cardboard cathedral he designed in Christchurch, New Zealand after its completion. The cathedral was constructed near a cathedral damaged by a devastating earthquake that struck the city in February 2011.

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Museum designed by award-winning architect opens in Japan

Architect Shigeru Ban (far R), the 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, attends a tape-cutting ceremony at the newly opened Oita Prefectural Art Museum he designed in the southwestern Japanese city of Oita on April 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Award-winning architect-designed museum opens in Japan

Photo taken April 23, 2015 shows selected works exhibited at the newly opened Oita Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japanese city of Oita, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, the 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Award-winning architect-designed museum opens in Japan

Photo taken April 23, 2015 shows the newly opened Oita Prefectural Art Museum in the southwestern Japanese city of Oita. The museum was designed by architect Shigeru Ban, the 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Famous architect proposes partitions for vaccination space

World-famous architect Shigeru Ban talks about partitions he has proposed for coronavirus vaccination space on Feb. 2, 2021, in Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan.

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Famous architect proposes partitions for vaccination space

Photo taken Feb. 2, 2021, in Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, shows partitions proposed by world-famous architect Shigeru Ban for coronavirus vaccination space.

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Famous architect proposes partitions for vaccination space

World-famous architect Shigeru Ban talks about partitions he has proposed for coronavirus vaccination space on Feb. 2, 2021, in Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan.

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Oita Pref. to open new museum next April

OITA, Japan - The Oita Prefectural Art Museum, designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is unveiled to citizens on Nov. 23, 2014. The museum in Oita City, southwestern Japan is set to open in April 2015. (Kyodo)

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Architect Ban to receive Asia "Game Changer" awards

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Ban is among the first group to receive the Game Changer Awards, a new award for leadership from the Asia Society, the organization said Sept. 16, 2014. Ban was recognized for his work designing disaster relief shelters which used recyclable cardboard paper tubes. (Kyodo)

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Pritzker-winning architect Ban

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban gives a speech at the ceremony at which he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize at the Amsterdam national museum in the Netherlands on June 13, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Transparent public toilet

Photo taken at a park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sept. 3, 2020, shows a public toilet, created by architect Shigeru Ban, which is transparent when nobody is inside it. Ban designed the toilet under the Nippon Foundation-led Tokyo Toilet project, in which a total of 17 similar toilets designed by various designers and architects will be created in the ward.

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Transparent public toilet

Photo taken at a park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sept. 3, 2020, shows a public toilet, created by architect Shigeru Ban, which is transparent when nobody is inside it. Ban designed the toilet under the Nippon Foundation-led Tokyo Toilet project, in which a total of 17 similar toilets designed by various designers and architects will be created in the ward.

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Transparent public toilet

Photo taken at a park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sept. 3, 2020, shows a public toilet, created by architect Shigeru Ban, which is transparent when nobody is inside it. Ban designed the toilet under the Nippon Foundation-led Tokyo Toilet project, in which a total of 17 similar toilets designed by various designers and architects will be created in the ward.

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Swatch new headquarters

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (L) attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the new headquarters he designed for Swiss watchmaker Swatch in Biel, Switzerland, on Oct. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban visits the new headquarters of Swiss watchmaker Swatch, designed by him, in Biel, Switzerland, on Oct. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban visits the new headquarters of Swiss watchmaker Swatch, designed by him, in Biel, Switzerland, on Oct. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo