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From time to time it's good to take a critical look at everyday places and how they are designed. They tend to be shaped by the culture and time in which they are built, sometimes including the shortcomings or otherwise outdated ideas of that time. A theater, for example, often follows similar design principles, but are the spaces really accessible to everyone? As I perceive it, many have been designed with a dash of white normativity and internalized ableism. With my friend Heini we dream of more accessible cultural venues, and if you have access to ARK magazine you can read about our thoughts from here:

The Elegance and Significance of Balconies in Theater Architecture

A conversation about the innovative designs and collaborations shaping the future of museums, galleries, and studios:

GMP, Berlin (architecture | urban planning) with POLA landscape architecture. The authors propose to preserve the existing department store in its shell and footprint to a large extent and to convert it into the opera house of the future. Two forward-looking objectives are thus successfully implemented. On the one hand, the preservation of the concrete structure is an essential contribution to CO2 savings/climate neutrality. On the other hand, the conversion from a department store to a cultural center can succeed in placing a low-threshold opera house in the shopping street, which frees itself from the pathos of competing opera houses. ///MA

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The #architecturaldesign of this #building is just as artistic as the artwork the structure houses.

Heating and Cooling trench Katherm in practice. ☝

GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, USA (1983) https://lnkd.in/esSAhwYC This proposal revitalizes the city's downtown area by reusing a distinguished, but now vacant, former government building and by adapting a number of abandoned or underused neighboring structures for additional cultural functions. The main 1908 Beaux-Arts building is upgraded to meet codes and programmatic requirements. A relocation of the entrance from the closed side of the U-shaped building to the open court-yard establishes a direct physical relationship between the museum and its surroundings while creating a single, unified entrance. Covering the court-yard, a translucent inclined plane of stairs has an opening at its center that leads to the Grand Foyer which is a shared space for the different departments. Water descends slowly and evenly from the top of the stairway along a channel carved into the plane, leaving a clear pedestrian path for those walking up the stairs. This water is, in fact, the very water used for the air-conditioning system. In this way, the need for an unsightly cooling tower has been eliminated and this silent cascade becomes the focal point of the city's newest public space. Greenroofs.com, LLC. #ambasz #emilioambasz #architecture #greeninfrastructure #greenroofs #landscapearchitecture #nature #greenarchitecture #design

Big step for a huge project combining restauration of monuments and the big concert hall with new construction of additional concert halls and classes.