The JS Bach Chamber Music Hall is a brilliant concept design installed at Manchester Art Gallery in order to house musical performances. The hall is built on a steel structure covered with a transparent fabric membrane suspended form the ceiling which divides and encloses the space aside from creating a stage, area for audience and passages for in and out of the hall. Above the stage, clear and acrylic panes are suspended, offering perfect disperse and reflect of sound. A massive ribbon swirls within the hall is carving out a visual and spatial response to the obscure relationships of Bach’s harmonies. Since the ribbon staggers above the performer and cascades into the ground along with wraps around the listeners, the original box shaped room is quite absent, rather, only fluid spaces are visible that are swelling, slipping and merging through one another. The design surely will enhance the diversity of Bach’s work via a coherent structural and formal logic integration.
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Award-winning architects Ben van Berkel (UNStudio) and Zaha Hadid have recently disclosed their designs for a couple of eco-pavilions that will be on everyone’s attention in the celebrations of Burnham Plan Centennial this summer in Chicago. The main goal of both pavilion’s design is to realize the importance of imagining a superior future for all. The Curvilinear pavilion designed by Hadid will be developed with stretched fabric over a frame made of aluminum. The tent-like shape has been planned to be collapsible and re-installed without any difficulties. On the other hand, Van Berkel crafted out various materials for his design including wood and steel.
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The new complex coming up for the new headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium can be stated to be a masterpiece. Being designed by London based architects Zaha Hadid Architects, the new extension is expected to be completed in 2013 and will house about 500 staff members, with the existing building will be refurbished so that the public counters, meeting rooms and offices be in that place. The new building which shall be five stories high will consist of auditorium and restaurant and additional offices and meeting rooms. It will be a towering structure overlooking the city and will sure be a monument to look out for.
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The new Library and Learning Center at the University of Economics & Business in Vienna, Austria has been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The Library once completed shall be the centerpiece of the new University campus and will be a nice add-on to the services that shall be rendered at the University. The building shall be housing language laboratory, book shop, student center and administration offices etc. The building designed as a polygonal block which takes the form of the cube with straight lines both inclined and straight edges, thus in totality portraying itself as a learning and research center.
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Looking at this extravagant design, anyone would say “Dream Project” or “Futuristic Castle”. Zaha Hadid has designed a Symbiotic Villa for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan. The project was launched in Venice during the architecture biennale. Each and every part of this architecture is amazingly designed to impress the audience. Whether you talk about the stunning windows designed to capture light or the perforated walls in different angles. Overall, it is a light based design with its unique identity and amazing approach. One can get a natural feeling and comfort while walking inside this structure.
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