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Laidlaw Music Centre designed from “the point of view of the performer”

November 9, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

This video by Stephenson& offers a glimpse inside Laidlaw Music Centre by architecture studio Flanagan Lawrence, which is in the running for this year’s RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. The film is the second in a series of videos being published by Dezeen this month with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in

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TO Arquitectura creates vaulted Mexico City music school from reclaimed masonry

October 11, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio TO Arquitectura has worked with the local community to create a music school that features a vault made from recycled and donated masonry in Mexico City. Known as the Kithara Music Kiosk, the 645-square foot (60-square metre) project sits on an 860-square foot (80-square metre) corner lot in the Yuguelito neighbourhood. TO Arquitectura completed

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Dezeen Agenda features MSG Sphere Las Vegas opening

October 10, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the opening of MSG Sphere Las Vegas, the world’s largest spherical structure. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The Populous-designed MSG Sphere Las Vegas opened last week with a concert by U2 featuring bespoke artworks by designer Es Devlin and artist John Gerrad which were displayed on

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MSG Sphere in Las Vegas opens with bespoke artworks by Es Devlin and John Gerrard

October 3, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas opened its doors for the first time this weekend with a concert by U2 featuring visuals by designer Es Devlin, artist John Gerrard and more on a 15,000-square-metre wrap-around screen. Designed by architecture studio Populous and completed in July, the entertainment venue is billed as the world’s largest spherical structure,

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Caples Jefferson Architects unveils curved Louis Armstrong Center in Queens

August 3, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Caples Jefferson Architects has created an extension for the Louis Armstrong House Museum complete with a curved facade and a green roof in Corona, Queens. The 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) wing – known as the Louis Armstrong Center – is located across the street from the original house museum, which was once the American

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Klein Dytham Architecture gives Fender’s first flagship store a welcoming feel

July 12, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Klein Dytham Architecture has aimed to counter rock music snobbery with its design for guitar brand Fender’s Tokyo flagship store, which is meant to feel welcoming to people who might feel judged in other guitar stores. The Fender store sits across the bottom four floors of the glass-walled Ice Cubes building, a 12,000-square-metre space in

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“Hip hop has always had to be sustainable” says Atlanta hip-hop architecture exhibition curator

November 1, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture uses many of the same creative principles as hip-hop music, the curator of an exhibition tracking the relationship between the musical genre and designing buildings, Sekou Cooke, says in this interview. Titled “Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture”, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) exhibition showcases the work of 34 designers,

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Pirajean Lees and Olly Bengough design “timeless” interiors for House of Koko members’ club

April 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
House of Koko bathroom

Low-lit bathrooms informed by dressing rooms and a stage-kitchen-like restaurant feature in a members’ club at iconic music venue Koko, which pays homage to its theatrical past.  Local studio Pirajean Lees and owner and creative director of Koko Olly Bengough collaborated to create a members’ club within the London venue, which has been renovated over

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AL_A set to design Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall as “architectural panorama”

April 13, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall

British architecture studio AL_A is designing a concert hall in Belgrade, Serbia, covered in a draped canopy that aims to mirror the movement of music. The concert hall will be comprised of four curved volumes that will house a 1,600-seat performance hall, a podium stage, a recital hall and a creative hub. Hailed as the first venue

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UNStudio designs “urban speaker” as HQ of K-pop music agency

April 11, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
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Amsterdam-based UNStudio has used sweeping geometric lines and metal surfaces to bring a sense of performance to the Seoul headquarters of South Korean music agency YG Entertainment. Abutting an existing office building used by the agency, the seven-storey headquarters designed by UNStudio contains offices, meeting rooms and recording studios. Designed to resemble a speaker, the building contrasts

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