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 Luminale 2010: The Lighting Culture BiennaleThe Luminale will take place in parallel with Light+Building in Frankfurt takes for the fifth time.From now on architects, designers, media creators, artists, design schools can announce new projects for Luminale. 100 exemplary Luminale projects which present a variety and wealth of ideas in dealing with light are being searched for. Light is one of the building materials of the twenty-first century and gives souls to buildings and whole towns. Intelligence and efficiency in dealing with energy and light are asked for more than ever. Better light instead of only more light. Crisis and climate change give imagination a new direction and also open new horizons. LED technology and control technologies have made the light interactive. Light adapts itself to the moods, reacts to environmental factors and tells stories from the digital jungle of the mega-cities. The Luminale plays with the elements of the urban scenery. Interventions in the town space change living spaces, turn the usual to the unfamiliar and open new pages of living in town. Light can transform urban fallows, light produces parties and events. Even the fashion shows electric clothes. More than 500 project have been realized during the last ten years within Luminale. upcoming event Apr 11 - Apr 16, 2010 Germany more upcoming events more info www.lum... (107) design directory Luminale > Lighting Design Events added by Levent OZLER |
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 Of Dreams and Cities: Architecture and FilmTo mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the BFI will in November 2009 present Of Dreams and Cities - Architecture and Film at BFI Southbank and in the BFI Mediatheques at BFI Southbank, QUAD in Derby and the new Cambridge Central Library.Architects and architecture have featured in a variety of ways in the cinema, and Of Dreams and Cities - Architecture and Film offers a wide range of films, from expressionist silent drama to contemporary documentary, from vintage Hollywood studio fare to European auteur classics and highly personal "essay films". No film season about architecture should omit The Fountainhead (1948), perhaps the most famous depiction of an architect - one whose Le Corbusier-like vision is of a future where skyscrapers rule. Other classics with an important if often overlooked architectural component include Murnau's Sunrise (1927), with its evocation of the modern metropolis; Paul Strand's poetic Manhattan (1921); and Jacques Tati's comic fable Playtime (1967). Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles's dark masterpiece, is rightly famous for its many impressive sets, not least Xanadu, the lavish palace of Charles Foster Kane. Citizen Kane will be re-released on an extended run to coincide with the season. More information and a full schedule of films will be available in the autumn. more www.bfi... (96) design directory RIBA > Architecture Organizations added by Levent OZLER |
 MercuryHouseOne at the 53rd Biennale of VeniceMercuryHouseOne by Architecture and Vision will be presented on September 2, 2009, during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on San Servolo island.MercuryHouseOne is a mobile lounge designed for a modern experience of our natural and urban environments. Drawing inspiration from nature, its shape recalls the beauty and perfection of a water drop. The advanced cabin is realized by the Italian company GVM of Gualtiero Vanelli in Carrara. The exterior shell is a double curve shape made out of ultralight white Carrara marble. The interior layout can be set up in a range of configurations to accommodate different uses and needs. The latest lighting, video, and sound technologies is used in the habitat in order to create a unique experience inside. The unit is powered by solar cells and is energetically autonomous. more www.arc... (136) design directory Architecture and Vision > Architecture Companies added by Levent OZLER |
 Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Children's Museum Awarded LEED SilverRafael Vinoly Architects' expansion of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, located at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, has been certified LEED Silver, making it New York City's first LEED-certified museum.In addition, it has been awarded a 2009 Building Brooklyn Award in the "Institutional" category from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's Real Estate and Development Committee. In winning this award, the BCC recognizes the Brooklyn Children's Museum as a project that has enriched Brooklyn's neighborhoods and economy. With this recognition and its LEED Silver certification, RVA's design for the Brooklyn Children's Museum has proven to be both environmentally sound and enriching to its outlying community. The museum was founded in 1899 and expanded on its current site in 1977. In 1999, it began to seek ways to increase capacity and to create a new public presence for the twenty-first century. Rafael Vinoly Architects has achieved this by creating a distinctive L-shaped, two story structure that differs from its context in color as well as physical form, yet remains welcoming and deferential to the museum's existing built fabric. more Rafael Vinoly Architects Expansion of Brooklyn Children's Museum Awarded LEED Silver design directory Rafael Vinoly Architects > Architecture Companies added by Levent OZLER |
 Whitegoods Creates Continuous Light in CornhillWhitegoods were contracted by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects to illuminate key interior areas of the 4/5/6th floor offices in the recent £60 million refurbishment of 14 Cornhill, a Grade II listed building in the heart of the City of London.Formerly the HQ of Lloyds Bank, 14 Cornhill is located in the Bank Conservation Area, and contains what is acknowledged to be the finest banking hall in the City. The refurbishment has married the original architectural features with contemporary standards of design and specification. Whitegoods have provided tailored lines of diffused light with to highlight the architectural nature of the building in key areas. Occupied predominantly by Russian Bank VTB; a dynamic, international financial group, the building is adjacent to City institutions such as the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange. With offices spread over three floors, occupying 68,000 sq feet of prime office space, 14 Cornhill is the perfect site for VTB's relocation. 14 Cornhill is now a mixed use development containing shops, restaurants and prime open plan office space built around a spectacular atrium, maintaining and celebrating the historic qualities of the building and making it unique among City developments. The use of Whitegoods architectural lighting tools (designed to seamlessly integrate with architecture) was the perfect solution to accentuate the unique interior shape of the building. more Whitegoods Creates Continuous Light in Cornhill design directory Whitegoods Lighting > Lighting Design Manufacturers added by Levent OZLER |
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