Ned Kahn: Ned Kahn Studios. Dalian Public Library \ Architects Collective. The new library is designed to become the center and heart for the local community with a strong relationship to the ocean and the bay. The building is placed in a park setting and aims to be a landmark for locals and visitors and a symbol for the creative and environmentally friendly future of New Pulian. It is a place for the public to read, contemplative and come together. The basic architectural form for the new library is the rose petal since the Monthly Rose is the city flower of Dalian. The new Pulian branch is one of several library branches in the Dalian region with each branch symbolizing a petal and forming a rose flower.
Dalian Public Library, render courtesy Architects Collective + Project facts Dalian Public Library - Conceptual diagram, drawing courtesy Architects Collective + All images and drawings courtesy Architects Collective + Project by Architects Collective on +MOOD Architects Collective Receives Austrian Client’s Award 2011 for Klinikum Klagenfurt. Cherry Tree by Tom Price. British designer Tom Price has made an enchanted grove of cherry trees out of plastic tubes and cable ties. The slender cherry trees occupied an entire room at Industry Gallery in Washington D.C last month, casting delicate shadows on the surrounding walls. Price was inspired to make the installation when he visited the US capital last spring during the National Cherry Blossom Festival. He used special tools to heat the plastic tubing so that he could then bend and twist it into the desired shape.
Cable ties hold the bundles of tubing together, forming trunks and branches. The designer fused small cross-sections of the tubing together to form a canopy that creates a dappled light underneath. We recently published an interview with Tom Price on Dezeen Screen - watch the video here. Here is some more information from the gallery: WASHINGTON, D.C. About Tom Price A London native, Price attended several renowned schools including the Royal College of Art. Sukkah_city_board.jpg 6,000×4,500 pixels. Thispointon. BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group. Achim Menges Design Research Architecture Product Design. Alan Dempsey. Soma architecture - synaesthetic filter.
Temporary Music Pavilion In Salzburg, Austria | Entertainment Designer. Posted by Staff on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 At the 2011 Salzburg Biennale in Austria this past March, visitors to this contemporary music festival must have been a little shocked when they first caught sight of the temporary pavilion designed by architecture firm Soma. A spectacular array of brilliant aluminum segments, the pavilion is not your typical performance hall. Although the festival is over, the pavilion will remain in Salzburg through May. Until then, it continues to showcase musical events, as well as performances in other artistic mediums. The building block of the pavilion is a 2-meter length of aluminum square tubing. While the length of the aluminum struts is constant throughout the structure, their relative positions shift to create a dynamic, oscillating form.
In the spirit of the Biennale, the concept behind the pavilion’s design draws on themes developed in music: particularly in 20th minimalist composition. The Return of the Concert Hall | Entertainment Designer. Posted by Staff on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 Classical music is dying, or so nearly everyone says. Or perhaps, to be more accurate, I should say that the people who listen to classical music are dying, since the audiences at the Met and Chicago Lyric Opera are packed with fur stoles and Chanel No.5. But despite the insistence the classical music is going out of fashion, it’s hard to deny the international attention newly designed concert spaces has been getting in the several years.
Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Herzog & de Meuron’s design for the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg, Germany and Jean Nouvel’s new Paris Philharmonie project are just some of the latest and most sparkling examples of contemporary concert hall design; these radical redesigns hope to mirror function and form, and are nothing like the dowdy concert halls built during the last 2 centuries. Ned Kahn: Portfolio: Fog.