https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1306 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17151 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17151-a-finely-tuned-revamp-of-londons-warburg-institute-broadens-its-public-reach http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16277 Fri, 26 May 2023 08:30:35 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16277-a-malmo-theater-basks-in-the-limelight-following-a-revamp-by-haworth-tompkins-and-white-arkitekter 8. Auditorium ceiling - credit Åke E_son Lindman copy.jpg Ringed by vivid frescos, the once-obscured timber gridshell roof of Malmö Stadsteater's auditorium plays a starring role in a major refurbishment project led by London's Haworth Tompkins and the local office of Sweden's White Arkitekter. Photo by Åke E:son Lindman 4. Exterior to new Courtyard Link - credit Åke E_son Lindman.webp Exterior view of a new, glass-walled space for gatherings and impromptu performances. Photo by Åke E:son Lindman 6. Foyer - credit Åke E_son Lindman.webp Situated beneath the auditorium's sloped stage, the theater foyer features a bar and coat check. Photo by Åke E:son Lindman 14.-Courtyard-Link-credit-Åke-E_son-Lindman.webp The new interior courtyard "link" is envisioned by the architects as a "town square." Photo by Åke E:son Lindman SectionMalmoStadsteater.jpg Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins 23.-Historic-Auditorium.webp Archival view of the auditorium, originally used for circus performances. Photo courtesy Haworth Tompkins Few London buildings divide opinion so sharply as the National Theatre on the south bank of the Thames.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11494 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11494-the-national-theatre National Theatre Atelier Ten’s lighting design played a central role in creating a warmer welcome without compromising the building’s distinctive aesthetic or protected fabric. (The National Theatre has been Grade II* listed as a particularly important building of more than special interest by the UK since 1994.) Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre From the riverside, new glazing on the main foyer emits a welcoming glow. Preprogrammed lighting controls shift between four “scenes” from morning to late evening in response to external daylight levels. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre To minimize damage to the concrete, the designers reused existing brackets for spotlights. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre The lighting designers developed custom fixtures such as the chandelier in the entrance lobby. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre Spotlights wash board marked concrete walls in the new Dorfman Theatre foyer. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre Spotlights wash board marked concrete walls in the first-floor House restaurant. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre The lighting designers developed custom fixtures. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre A new café features T5 tubes are suspended horizontally among a tracery of electrical conduit and sprinkler pipes below an exposed concrete ceiling. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre T5 tubes create individual pendants in a remodelled foyer on the building’s east side, where they are paired with horizontal strip-lights set within a slatted timber ceiling. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre An elevated public route leads through the back-of-house facilities, allowing views into design offices, workshops and a vast set-painting studio. Industrial light fixtures reflect the architect’s characterization of the theater as a ‘creative factory’, but the role of lighting in these large volumes is primarily functional rather than atmospheric. High-performance luminaires are fitted with reflectors that give an even distribution of light at 1500 lux. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre An elevated public route leads through the back-of-house facilities, allowing views into design offices, workshops and a vast set-painting studio. Industrial light fixtures reflect the architect’s characterization of the theater as a ‘creative factory’, but the role of lighting in these large volumes is primarily functional rather than atmospheric. High-performance luminaires are fitted with reflectors that give an even distribution of light at 1500 lux. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre Within the grid of the egg-crate ceiling slabs, bronze-anodized cylindrical downlights are clustered in small, irregular groups. To avoid light spilling into the coffers, which the designers wanted to keep dark, they are fitted with gold reflectors that also add warmth to the light emitted by 2700K LED modules. LED spotlights with honeycomb louvers that emulate the quality of old PAR lamps are set into floors at the base of walls and columns, “grazing” the concrete surfaces with light to reveal their texture. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre On the terraces, open to the public at all hours, Atelier Ten resisted the demands of safety advisors for overhead lighting, demonstrating that knee-high LED strips secreted in the balustrades could give sufficient light. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre The enjoyment of darkness is evident in the external spaces. Photo © Philip Vile National Theatre At night, visitors’ views of illuminated facades across the river are enhanced by their own position in the half- dark. Photo © Philip Vile With its first theater built from the ground up, a firm brings the spirit—and the bricks—of the past into a modern performance space in London.

]]> 1412-everyman-theatre-haworth-tompkins-architects.asp Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7366-everyman-theatre-by-haworth-tompkins-architects Everyman Theatre The front facade contains aluminum sun-shading shutters water-jet cut with portraits of everyday Liverpudlians.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre The new Everyman Theatre replaces its former home, a 19th-century church on Liverpool’s Hope Street. Stack-effect chimneys and the building’s rear and side elevations are clad in a hard red brick—a familiar material in Liverpool.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre The basement bistro recalls the old theater’s subterranean bar.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre Stack-effect chimneys and the building’s rear and side elevations are clad in a hard red brick—a familiar material in Liverpool.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre The public spaces had a lived-in feel even before they opened.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre New backstage areas, workshops, and dressing rooms face a narrow street, some looking out through a row of protruding angled windows.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre Lining the auditorium are bricks salvaged from the demolished 1837 building.   Photo © Philip Vile Everyman Theatre Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects Everyman Theatre Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects Everyman Theatre Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects Three decades ago, the South Bank district in central London was no place to call home.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12090 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/12090-coin-street-neighbourhood-centre Photo © Edmund Summer Photo © Iain Tuckett Photo © Edmund Summer Photo © Philip Vile Photo © Iain Tuckett Photo © Iain Tuckett Photo © Edmund Summer Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects Image courtesy Haworth Tompkins Architects