Amphitheater
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Project • By Tuncer Cakmakli Architects • Airports
Istanbul Airport Arena for Unifree Duty Free
In the visionary realm of airport architecture, the fusion of a duty-free shopping experience with the dynamic essence of an amphitheater heralds a new era in travel retail design. This groundbreaking concept transcends the conventional boundaries of commercial spaces, giving rise to a multifunctional hub where commerce and culture converge, breathing life into the traditional airport environment.Nestled within the bustling concourses, this innovative design redefines the purpose of a duty-free shop, transforming it into more than a mere retail space. The integration of an amphitheater introduces a captivating dimension, turning the mundane act of shopping into a cultural experience. Travelers are no longer just consumers; they become parti... More
Project • By Revery Architecture • Theaters
PNE Amphitheatre
Revery Architecture’s PNE Amphitheatre / Freedom Mobile Arch will showcase mass timber in a precedent-setting starburst arch roof. The project leverages mass timber’s unique acoustic potential and biophilic character to deliver an unforgettable experience for performers and audiences as large as 10,000 people. The Amphitheatre will be Vancouver’s first net-zero carbon cultural project and will host the FIFA Fan Festival™ during the 2026 World Cup in Vancouver.
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Design brief
- Create a covered venue for up to 10,000 patrons
- Maintain views of iconic North Shore Mountains
- Provide state-of-the-art venue for emerging artists and touring product... More
Project • By Studio Circle • Theaters
Let’s Play!
Let's Play! reimagines an abandoned viaduct over Glasgow’s River Clyde as an interactive urban paradise. Transforming industrial relics into vibrant performance stages, it reconnects divided communities, celebrating Glasgow’s heritage through innovative spatial installations. Visitors engage through musical rain amphitheaters, marimba-inspired stairways, observation towers that cleanse the river, and a floating theatre—collectively blurring boundaries between neighborhoods, past and present, city and nature.
Xinyue Geng
The project Let’s Play! – A Journey of Regeneration and Reconnection in Glasgow, authored and led by Xinyue Geng, has been awarded the Best Design at the Golden Pin Design Awar... More
Project • By Tuncer Cakmakli Architects • Community Centres
Open-Air Theater
As an open-air theater, the Harbiye Open-Air Theater, which can only be opened during the summer months, serves as an open-air stage for opera, theater, music and dance performing arts. Static reinforcement, movable roof cover, acoustic renovation, sound visual center, theater museum and landscape projects have been made within the scope of the renovation project in order to make the concert organizations continuous and to keep the stage open 365 days of the year regardless of the seasonal conditions.
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A pneumatic membrane roof is designed which can be opened and closed in all weather conditions 365 days of the year by increasing the acoustic quality with an original facade without disturbing the open air atmosphere. The... More
Project • By Ervin Architecture • Stadiums
Maine Savings Amphitheater
An architectural marvel, the Maine Savings Amphitheater is sophisticated state-of-the art live entertainment facility in Bangor, Maine. The latest venue upgrades result from over 2.5 years of progressive collaboration to enhance an already extraordinary live entertainment facility that marches forward alongside the growing expectations of live music fans. The venue, designed by Ervin Architecture (EA), is the largest assembly occupancy facility north of Boston, and has become the premier destination in northern New England for live entertainment, routinely drawing fans from Boston, Montreal, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Dan Finnen
The venue is the culmination of a series of increasingly more complex construction phases spanning six... More
Project • By zuloark • Secondary Schools
Unconventional spaces of learning: The Debate Room
The physical spaces in which we find ourselves when developing certain actions have a direct influence in the quality if the activity itself. Due to cultural and of course economical reasons, school furniture industry offers a very limited variety of elements, designed in a way that promotes only a certain kind of educational activities, keen to certain individualism, based on taxonomy and separation, and with a great lack of collaborative spirit.
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“Non conventional education spaces: The Debate Room” aims to give an alternative answer to the didactic necessities of the students and teachers of the G. Luosi Institute. The space is designed in order to host activities of Public Speaking, a practice widely present and... More
Project • By MYVN Architecture • Offices
The Fall
In order to satisfy the requirement of a common platform for the outsiders and users of the co working space, THE FALL is an amphitheatre designed in between a large courtyard of the premises. The installation was envisioned to be a backdrop having its own form like a sculpture. Following the language of the project, the design is an evolution of parallel lines. Bending as of a hand, each vertical plate consistently carried the elegance of the structure. It also manifests the concept of co working, multiple vertical members portraying multiple hands. As the courtyard also encompasses working arena and café within a garden, the installation fulfils the need to act as a visual barrier for the amphitheatre. The notion does justice with... More
News • News • 9 Jul 2020
Dramatic arches and openings drive Salzburg pharmacy institute design
In January of 2016, Berger+Parkkinen Architects were commissioned to plan a new building for Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU) in Salzburg. The site, which previously housed a printing plant, reaches up to an elevated railway embankment. The new building responds to the north-south oriented volumes of its surroundings, fitting into its context in terms of scale. Meanwhile, the deliberately staggered arrangement of the buildings results in different spatial sequences and views.
Herta Hurnaus
The concept of the laboratories and institute rooms comes as a continuation of institute building House C on the opposite side of the street, which was also designed and completed by Berger+Parkkinen. A particular challenge was the questi... More
Project • By Urban Frame • Sports Centres
Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence
The birth of the idea to initiate a centre for sports excellence by the promotor, was to create a facility wherein an athlete receives ample opportunities to excel in the sports they choose. It was always about interdisciplinary learning, about understanding your body and mind better, and enhance the sports ecosystem from the aspect of the facility, coaching, sports science,
sports management and leadership.
Celebrating India's accelerated growth in Sports, CSE promotes the approach of sports for all. Having Football, Cricket, Basketball, Badminton, Tennis, Squash, Volleyball, Shooting, and Athletics, along with sports science, kinesiology, physiotherapy and hostels in one campus.
A pivotal aspect of the plann... More
Project • By Architecture Sans Frontières • Pavilions
Bamboo Amphitheater
The East Java Christian Church invited Architecture Without Borders Indonesia (ASF-ID) to design a new facility with local characteristics using sustainable materials. The village of Jengger (or Chicken Comb in Bahasa) is located around seven hundreds meter above sea level. It is home to many coffee farmers. The village is surrounded by giant bamboo, but underutilized. There was no doubt the local bamboo will serve best for the project; performance stage which requires generous space and wide roof span. Since the end of 2016 several workshops were organized in the village with participation of volunteers and students covering topics of bamboo preservation and modern joinery using steel bolts and mortar injection.Beside technicalities, four... More
Project • By Mirck Architecture • Auditoriums
ITC Annex
The current trend in The Netherlands is to recycle existing buildings rather than to replace them. In the old city of Leiden Mirck Architecture has designed such a rejuvenation for a 15th century landmark canal house. In the 1960s the building’s interior was effectively destroyed, which sad event opened interesting perspectives for the building’s redevelopment. The building is now used as an Annex by the International Tax Center Leiden, a postgraduate studies that is housed in the neighboring mansion at Rapenburg 65.The Rapenburg 63 Annex houses a fully equipped modern lecture theatre with 74 seats, a student lounge, and student studios along with a joint living room annex kitchen that overlooks the splendid garden at the backside of the bu... More