Book Launch and Signing

Join author and retired architect, Benjamin Bryce Levinson for the book launch of “Small Town Architect.” The launch will also feature an art exhibition and sale of original sketches.  The launch and signing take place on Thursday, September 12, 2013, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, 3220 Cedar Hill Road, Victoria, BC.  The Art Show continues September 12 – 24,  9am to 9pm daily.

Christchurch, N.Z., gets post-quake cardboard cathedral

CBC News, August 15, 2013

Uses 98 cardboard tubes, measuring up to 20 metres long and weighing 120 kg each

A temporary cardboard cathedral will become the new place of worship for a displaced Christchurch, New Zealand congregation after a deadly Feb. 2011 earthquake demolished their former church.

“This building will attract people,” said Craig Dixon, the cathedral’s development manager, on a video explaining the church’s construction. “It’s going to be a fantastic structure.”
The new cardboard cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand opened to the public on Aug. 5.The new cardboard cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand opened to the public on Aug. 5. (Facebook)
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rattled Christchurch in 2011, causing a spire of the downtown Christchurch Cathedral to fall into a public square.

After the disaster, church officials contacted Japanese architect Shigeru Ban — who has made a name for himself using cardboard tubes as construction materials for emergency shelters — to construct a transitional cathedral. More…