Cardboard cathedral to open August

Friday, July 19th, 2013

First it was February, then Easter, then July, but now it looks like August.

The so-called Cardboard Cathedral has turned out to be a normal building project, the Anglican church says, but should be open for services by the end of the next month.

The temporary Anglican cathedral, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and incorporating 98 beams incased in cardboard, had been subject to normal construction delays, said Anglican church spokesman Jason Rhodes. Continue reading

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