Sphere
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News • News • 5 Nov 2021
Renzo Piano Building Workshop houses new Academy Museum inside floating sphere
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures project combines the renovation of the 1939 May Company department store and addition of the spherical 1,000-seat David Geffen Theater. Located on the LACMA campus, right next to two other Renzo Piano buildings, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and The Resnick Pavilion.
Nic Lehoux
The museum, designed in collaboration with architect of record Gensler, includes 50,000 square feet of gallery space, two theaters, education labs, offices, conservation facilities, a restaurant and a retail store.
Nic Lehoux
The architects lifted the addition of the ground to create space for an entrance plaza and keep the ground floor open to the public.The volume rests on a series of base isolator piers.... More
Project • By In-es.artdesign • Private Houses
Terra Madre –Valentina Passalacqua Mansion
"What I have in front of me is what I have always wished for”: work and living coexist in Valentina’s ideal home, and she wanted the landscape to be the main protagonist. Her aim was to combine wine, life, work and home together with the philosophy of bio dynamics, linked to the concepts of care and respect of the land, and at the same time, to those of environmental sustainability and of the recovery and promotion of the territory. Disparate actions, but all reconciled to the key concept that regulates her company's philosophy in creating "a local wine, between earth and sky."Designed in between the vast vineyards, and adjacent to the operational heart of the company and the cellar, Terra Madre (Italian for "Mother Earth") the villa of Val... More
Product • By Marset • Discocó Pendant
Discocó Pendant
If there is one iconic design in the Marset collection, it is the Discocó: exuberant, even when switched off, the richness of the light emitted by this lamp provides direct downward illumination as well as a dramatic surrounding interplay of light and shadow. Its detailed study of indirect light adds nuance and also depth. Further reflections dance off the chrome-covered sphere at the core, to which the discs are attached.
When switched off, the Discocó is a stunning object that catches the eye and fills the space. Available in white, grey, beige and gold black in 5 different sizes and also in an oak wood finish, a high-quality material that provides unmatched quality and comfort. Using wood and making it light without convey... More