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Touted as singapore’s first Urban entertainment complex, the recently completed iluma project by WOHA takes a radically different approach to the kind of lighting found elsewhere in the Asian city-state, using a media facade designed to mesh artistic creativity and commercial interests in a developing arts and heritage district.

Project Specs iluma Singapore WOHA << Return to article the People Architect: WOHA 29 HongKong Street Singapore 059668 T: 65-6423-4555 F: 65-6423-4666 Wong Mun Summ (registered architect) Richard Hassell (registered architect) Chan Ee Mun (registered architect) Dhamaraj Subramaniam Ang Chow Hwee Lim Yin Chao Lim Yee Sze (registered architect) Alen Low Architect of record: WOHA Interior designer WOHA Consultant(s) Landscape: ICN Design International Lighting: Lighting Planners Associates Inc. Acoustical: Acviron Acoustics Consultants Pte Ltd Other: Civil and Structural: LBW Consultants Mechanical & Electrical: Lincolne Scott Ng Pte. Ltd. Media Façade Design: Realities United Gmbh Façade Consultant: Arup Façade Engineering Fire

When Asymptote principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture won a 2007 competition to design a 500-room luxury hotel and marina on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, northeast of the mainland, the directive was firm: to create an iconic complex around a Formula 1 racecourse and complete it in time to host the country’s inaugural Grand Prix on November 1, 2009.

Project Specs The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Asymptote Architecture << Return to article the People Architect: Asymptote Architecture 11-45 46th Ave. LIC, NY 11101 P: 212.343.7333 F: 718.937.3320 Lead Architects/principals: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture Project directors: Mick McConnell, Andrew DrummondProject Managers: Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Constantin, Doehler, Matthew Utley Architect of record: Dewan Architects & Engineers, Abu Dhabi Tilke & Partners W.L.L., Dubai Grid-Shell Engineer(s): Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart Waagner-Biro, Vienna Consultant(s) Landscape: Cracknell, Dubai Lighting: Arup Lighting, New York—Brian Stacy, Richard Fisher, designers Photographer Bjorn Moerman   the Products Lighting Exterior(grid-shell): Cooper Lighting and Safety (luminaires)

In Phoenix, sprawl creates cultural, economic, and architectural mash-ups both weird and wonderful.

Fearless design turns imitation goods into hot property.

David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap brings Berlin’s Neues Museum to life.

Project Specs Neues Museum Berlin, Germany David Chipperfield Architects << Return to article the People Architect   the Products Exterior cladding

Combining a horse barn and welding studio in one small building is hardly a run-of-the-mill commission.

Project Specs Sculpture Studio and Barn Massachusetts Kennedy & Violich Architecture << Return to article the People Architect   the Products Exterior cladding