A new temporary cathedral has been given the go-ahead in Christchurch, New Zealand. The 700-seat facility incorporates cardboard tubes with timber beams, steel and a concrete base.

A community still trying to recover from a 2011 earthquake dedicated on Thursday a cardboard cathedral that cost $6 million to construct. VIEW E-EDITION. SUBSCRIBE. Support local journalism.

Visitors from all over the world heading to New Zealand can now satisfy their curiosity about Christchurch’s famed Transitional ‘Cardboard’ Cathedral. After nearly two years of planning and ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's Anglican church will build a temporary cathedral made of cardboard in earthquake-devastated Christchurch as it works toward a permanent replacement for its ...

Shigeru Ban’s temporary cardboard cathedral finally got the green light to be erected in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now called the “Transitional Cathedral”, the building will replace a 19th ...

After the cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, was badly damaged in a 2011 earthquake, it was replaced by -- not the tallest or largest structure -- but by “the world’s only cathedral made ...

Since a February 2011 earthquake caused major destruction in downtown Christchurch, New Zealand, the Anglican diocese there has planned to demolish its damaged 130-year-old cathedral.

In Christchurch, New Zealand, ... Transitional Cathedral—the potentially temporary structure was designed by Shigeru Ban (b. 1957), the 2014 Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect.

NPR's Philip Reeves recently visited the earthquake-battered cathedral in New Zealand built by a 19th-century ancestor. He found his family history entwined in a fierce contemporary controversy.

Representatives of ChristChurch Cathedral will be back in court this morning seeking clarification of the way it spent insurance money. While today's hearing will have no impact on the state of ...