Posts Tagged ‘LIGHTING’

Japanese architects Suppose Architects have completed a clinic in Kure city, Hirosihima, Japan.
“Instead of keeping places normally used for movement such as an elevator shaft or stair wells closed, we wanted to open them up to collect light, using them as lightwells to maintain the lighting coming in from above. As light travels downward through the [...]


Via Archinect, I’ve found these pictures of a Sport and Leisore center in Saint- Cload, France by French architects KOZ. The building contrast strongly with the urban development zone in which the center is located, behind a new block of apartments and some neo- Haussmannian offices.

It is with the facing 1930s infant school that [...]


This project called the FLUX installation, is developed in 6 months by a team of CCA faculty and students. The project explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication through the production of the exhibition armature. The content of the exhibition is organized through a series of thematic categories in digital practices like cellular clusters, [...]


This Sports center in Barcelona , is designed by Alvaro Siza in 2005. The 40,000sg sports complex centre is part of a larger sports pak development that includes a new stadium for Barcelona’s football club.

The site was a flat rectangle of empty land between the dense streets of the post-war suburb to the north and [...]


Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects designed the Melbourne Recital Centre and the neighbouring Melbourne Theatre Company helping to transform the formerly derelict Southbank area of the city in to the dynamic district it has now become. Formely they got honoured with the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal winning highest accolades in three categories for public architecture, [...]


A few weeks ago, Zaha Hadid Architects have built an installation at Manchester Art Gallery to house the performances of music by Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
The structure, a translucent, fabric membrane stretched over a steel structure suspended from the ceiling divides and encloses the space, creating a stage, enclosure for the audience and passages into and out [...]


Recently I saw some  impressive pictures of the Za Koenji Public Theatre on dezeen which I wanted to share with you!
The building is a contemporary performing arts theatre that produces, presents and supports music, dance, drama and storyteling in the Suginami area of Tokyo, designed by the Japanese architect  Toyo Ito.
Via Dezeen!

Photos by Iwan Baan
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The Baupiloten design a this new cafetaria within the framework of a new masterplan for the remodeling of the TO Berlin’s main building.  The cafetaria connects two courtyards and provides the space between a new function. 

The different seasons dictates the color of the light drops. The warmer the outside temperature, the cooler the light color. [...]


By its playful form and character, the Zenith music hall contributes to the great Varietee Theaters which were built since the Zenith building in Paris was erected in 1984. The new Zenith building is an important project for the exhibition area in Strasbourg. It will be the new attraction which will give impulses to the [...]


(Picture is a screenshot from Wallpaper’s website)
The results are finally here: the best of the best and the very highly commended of the rest, as chosen by our esteemed panel of judges – Kanye West, Jean Nouvel, Ines de la Fressange, Marc Newson, Sir Ken Adam and Stefano Pilati. See the winners on Wallpaper..
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