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Santiago Calatrava and New York City Ballet director Peter Martins choreograph a convergence of dance and architecture that demonstrates the synergy between their two disciplines.
From a distance, the half-mile-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai tapers to a near imperceptible spire like a mirage along the windswept desert coast of the Persian Gulf.
Image courtesy Lutron Click on the slide show icon to see additional photos. A significant contribution to modern building design and science was celebrated on April 29 in the daylit halls of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History [recently renovated by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill] in Washington, D.C. Joel Spira, inventor and developer of the solid-state electronic dimming device, as well as chairman and founder of Lutron Electronics (1961), donated a range of his company’s most innovative and historic materials to the museum’s Electricity Collection—home of Thomas Edison’s earliest light bulbs. “The tools of everyday life, like light switches,
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)
For ten years architects Jeffrey Williams, AIA and Yann Leroy, AIA, and interior designers Kate Greenwood and Paul Greenwood—partners at BBG-BBGM—along with the firm’s Director of China Patrick Lo considered branching out on their own. Frustrated by the constraints inevitable at such a large international architecture and interior design practice, they aspired to a more personal, hands-on working environment. On January 2, they took the plunge and launched studioaria, an office still global in scope, with a similar client base of luxury hotel operators and commercial and residential developers, but scaled down to be able to offer the kind of
Developer Dai Zhi Kang, chairman and CEO of the Shanghai Zendai Group is a small, gentle man with a super-sized vision—to create a world-class multi-cultural center for art and commerce in his hometown’s Pudong district. Image courtesy Shanghai Zendai Group Click on the slide show icon to see additional photos. “In China, art is mixed with daily life,” explains Zhi Kang. “I want to interpret this tradition into a new aesthetic for Chinese architecture.” So rather than erect a stand-alone museum, a concept he deems foreign in China (therefore not likely to be embraced by locals or investors), he worked
