fun with paper

\shigeru ban: paper tower looking up the paper tower image © designboom shigeru ban's paper tower is part of the size + matter project which matches leading architects and designers with a chosen material, asking them to push the boundaries of that material's potential, and to also challenge our perception of those materials by demonstrating new applications and forms for them. the japanese architect was selected to work with cardboard manufacturer sonoco, constructing a 22m high cone-shaped tower made from hundreds of compressed cardboard tubes. by taking a humble material typically used to make boxes, ban utilizes the cardboard to construct something which soars above the south bank skyline. ---------------------- someone has just altered the way we think about paper. how many other materials are waiting for us to do the same ?