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The Taipei Performing Arts Center is a brilliant design by B+H Architects. This structure is an excellent example of how structure and skin relate to each other. The skin is derived from actual sound waves transposed into three dimensional form, but also reacts to the buildings structure without being subordinate to it. This organic shell stands out from its urban fabric and provides a pivotal destination point for the city of Taipei.
http://design-daily.com/2010/06/taipei-performing-arts-center/The Taipei Performing Arts Center is a brilliant design by B+H Architects. This... more
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When a progressive law firm asked for a cutting-edge office in downtown Omaha, Randy Brown Architects responded with jazzy angled walls, a moody black ceiling, and an open layout. That was 15 years ago. When the lawyers moved on, their space, with only minor alterations, became the regional headquarters for the U.S. Data Corporation, a supplier of marketing information such as mailing lists, sales leads, and research on both consumers and businesses. Although the company flourished for three years in its hand-me-down interior, the next move was to lease somewhere twice as big. Discovering that Randy Brown was responsible for the downtown location, the company wasted no time before asking him to reinterpret his concept for 5,000 raw square feet in a spec building in a leafy office park in the suburbs.
Starting with scale models in cardboard, Brown experimented with folding the angled walls he'd used downtown, wrapping them onto the ceiling in the suburbs. The resulting jagged forms, realized in budget-conscious gypsum-board on light-gauge galvanized-metal studs, define a circulation route that begins at reception and proceeds past the conference room en route to the sales team in the far corner. Along the way, he punched the gypsum-board with large apertures, which offer glimpses across the space. The glass front of the conference room displays large and small black numbers: the area codes and zip codes that U.S. Data targets in the Midwest and California.
To brighten the conference room, Brown assembled a large, crystalline ceiling fixture from milky-white polycarbonate panels and lit it with warm fluorescent tubes. It wasn't until fluorescents were installed throughout—there are essentially no incandescent bulbs—that he visited the site to finalize the exact shade of electric-lime paint for reception and the corridor. The inspiration, he explains, was an old-school green cursor he'd found flashing on a computer monitor hidden in U.S. Data's server room. "That green has a lot to do with the history of computers and digital data," he says, recalling his own long-ago flirtations with programming in Pascal and Fortran.
http://www.interiordesign.net/slideshow/1972-Office_2_0.php?photoId=326674&photoUrl=/photo/326/326674-36756.jpgWhen a progressive law firm asked for a cutting-edge office in downtown Omaha, Randy... more
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Dwell Magazine hosts Dwell on Design- an engaging weekend of design and architecture that brings everyone from merchants, students, designers, top archictects and the public together to explore hot issues in design today- the buzz word being "sustainability."Dwell Magazine hosts Dwell on Design- an engaging weekend of design and architecture... more
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