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Book Review
commended for its beautiful, woven wood and paper
composite facade and its transparency, provides the
only free and publicly accessible rooftop in a city
known for exclusiveness and wealthy seasonal visitors.
Although Ban dictates both the design and
structures of his work, his collaborations with the
great minds of Frei Otto and Hermann Blumer are
well documented to have furthered the possibilities
of mass timber use in architecture. Ban orst collaborated with Otto on the Japan Pavilion for Expo
2000 in Hannover. The partnership later inspired
Ban9s woven, wood suspension structure at the
Centre Pompidou-Metz in western France, which
was actually his orst collaboration with Blumer.
One of Ban9s most notable works to date, Metz
displays an intricate timber roof, which, as noted by
the book9s editors, is
