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Danish Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
Following the Expo’s central theme, ‘Better City, Better Life’, architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wanted the Danish Pavilion to provide visitors with a truly authentic urban experience.
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Illuminated ceilings through history
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Luminous ceilings provide spacious room impressions and can provide different types of lighting. Besides this, they are, however, also metaphors of the natural sky and a mirror of an aesthetic and architectural debate.
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Face the Light
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Arc Lighting have carried out a study analysing different lighting approaches for mannequins in shop windows. "Face the light" looks at situations ranging from highly professional to incidental. more...
French Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
George Sexton Associates’ scheme for the façade of the French Pavilion drew inspiration from the temporary nature of the Shanghai Expo. With its waterside location, the structure sits like a cruise ship in dock, floating aside the other pavilions, which have similarly arrived from locations around the world. It was a metaphor that in turn led to ideas about travel and luxury.
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UBPA Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
Designed by Mario Occhiuto Architetture with lighting design by Francesca Storaro, the Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA) is a thematic pavilion in which cities propose their solutions to modern urban issues.
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German Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
The German Pavilion is intended as a physical representation of ‘the urban balance between volatility and stability’. With many German - and indeed European - cities seeing a shift away from the suburbanisation of the past with a return to city-centre living, planners have been forced to create spaces that balance the needs of both work and domestic life.
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British Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
The ‘Seed Cathedral’, Britain’s presence at the World Expo. The pavilion, which won architects Heatherwick Studio this year’s RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the ‘Most outstanding work of international architecture by a RIBA member’, demonstrates the work of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and their Millennium Seedbank.
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The Pavilion @ Regents Place, London, UK
Issue 55 June / July 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
Rob Honeywill, Director of Maurice Brill Lighting Design, explains the process of designing an integrated scheme for this urban space.
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Levi's Regent Street, London, UK
Issue 55 Jun / Jul 2010 : Retail : Store
ERCO and Checkland Kindleysides have produced a dramatic and inspiring interior scheme for Levi’s relaunched flagship store in London.
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One Shelley Street, Sydney
Issue 54 Apr/May 2010 : Architectural : Workplace
Rated world class in the sustainability stakes, Sydney’s One Shelley Street has propelled green office design into a new realm. Vision Design’s lighting and control scheme played its part
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Danish Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo, China
Issue 56 August / September 2010 : Architecture : Pavilion
Following the Expo’s central theme, ‘Better City, Better Life’, architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wanted the Danish Pavilion to provide visitors with a truly authentic urban experience.
more...
Face the Light
ONLINE VIDEO CONTENT
Arc Lighting have carried out a study analysing different lighting approaches for mannequins in shop windows. "Face the light" looks at situations ranging from highly professional to incidental.more...
One Shelley Street, Sydney
Issue 54 Apr/May 2010 : Architectural : Workplace
Rated world class in the sustainability stakes, Sydney’s One Shelley Street has propelled green office design into a new realm. Vision Design’s lighting and control scheme played its part
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