Photo courtesy Terry Pawson Architects
Terry Pawson Architects’ VISUAL & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre provides Ireland with a significant new arts space to showcase contemporary visual arts and theatre of national and international importance. Unique to Ireland, the new building features an expansive gallery space with a ceiling height of12m to accommodate large-scale sculpture and installation, the scale of which has not been easily accommodated in Ireland to date. Read the rest of this entry »
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UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s design selected for Dance Palace in the historic centre of St. Peterburg.
UNStudio’s design has been selected in the competition for a 21,000 square meter dance theatre in the historic centre of St. Petersburg. The new complex houses The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, headed by the prolific choreographer Boris Eifman. From the four projects presented (Jean Nouvel (FR), UNStudio (NL), Snøhetta (NO), ZAO (RU)), UNStudio’s design was yesterday unanimously chosen by the jury for realisation.
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Architectural Design | Renzo Zecchetto Architects
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The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage Theater The new state-of-the-art 540 seat theater for the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center provides a unique venue on the Westside of Los Angeles for opera, music, dance, lectures, film screenings, and an assorted mix of academic and community events. A central aim of the 30,000 sf theater is to provide an intimate experience within an architecturally grand setting. The small seating capacity allows the most distant audience member to make eye contact with the actor within a space capable of supporting the most demanding and ambitious productions of national and international significance. Read the rest of this entry »
