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🎭 Pingree Theater Lobby: A Revitalization Project by ARCA Design 🎨 Undergoing an exciting renovation, the Pingree Theater lobby, designed by ARCA Design, is set to transform into a vibrant and functional space for students and visitors alike. The renovation focuses on four key components to enhance functionality and aesthetics: 1. Floor Expansion: Extending into the existing overlook space, the new floor area will accommodate interior gatherings, benefiting students and theater visitors alike, significantly enhancing the lobby's capacity. 2. Multifunctional Rail: Adding versatility, a proposed rail will serve as a countertop, gathering space, and overlook point, catering to various users and creating a dynamic environment. 3. Display Space: Recesses in the existing wall will provide distinct locations for showcasing artwork, adding an artistic touch and creating a visually stimulating environment. 4. Innovative Lighting: A unique "chandelier" constructed of wooden framing and track lighting will illuminate the space, defining a new plane and enhancing the ambiance. The Pingree Theater lobby renovation project promises to elevate the overall theater experience, enriching the lives of those who frequent this dynamic space. With expanded floor space, multifunctional design elements, designated display areas, and captivating lighting, it's poised to become an inviting and inspiring atmosphere. #TheaterRenovation #DynamicDesign #ArtisticTouch #FunctionalAesthetics https://lnkd.in/earF2bRD

Silver Jubilee Bridge wins highest accolade in Build Back Better Awards The illumination of the Silver Jubilee Bridge, which crosses the River Mersey between Runcorn and Widnes, has won a PLATINUM Build Back Better Award in the 2024 lighting category. The lighting designer Arup aimed to celebrate the intricate beauty of the structure, with its graceful form that swoops high over the river, and connect it with the community below.  ‘We see lighting as a useful tool for placemaking, landmarking, and educating observers. We thought beyond our title as designers to becoming historians and storytellers. Our ambitions were to reflect the history, structural form and details, honour its builders, reduce obtrusive light, and emphasise the structure against the modern Mersey Gateway Bridge upstream’ says the practice.  The old lighting scheme inefficiently flooded the bridge with cold white light, flattening architectural details and causing significant light obtrusion.  Arup’s design began by characterising the nocturnal scene, followed by archive research into the bridge’s site, context, and history.  This informed its ‘inside-out’ lighting concept, illuminating the lower and upper chords of the bridge arch with concealed projectors.  Its research showed how the lack of local lighting competition allowed subtler techniques, using low-power luminaires discretely concealed within the structure.  This technique of ‘lighting from within’ reveals all the fine detail of the structure, telling the story of its construction from the foundations to the apex, highlighting textures, and revealing the labour behind every structural rivet which binds it together.  From afar, its magnificent form is clearly defined and offers an alternative visual perspective after dusk. The concept aimed to minimise obtrusive light for residents and its negative impacts on biodiversity and the nocturnal environment.  By integrating luminaires within the structure, the team significantly improved efficiency, achieving over 95 per cent energy savings and a similar reduction in light spill into the night sky.  Normally, elegant white light illuminates this landmark. However, Arup engaged children at Widnes Academy to create their own coloured light show. Through an interactive workshop with colour pens, gels, torches, and large-format drawings of the bridge, they developed a set of colourful concepts. Their show is displayed every January. Client: Halton Borough Council  Lighting Designer and Light Show Content Design: Arup  Main Contractor: Balvac Ltd  Lighting Sub-contractor: Studiotech  Lighting Equipment: GRIVEN S.r.l.  Controls: traxon e:cue   Community Engagement: Widnes Academy Picture: Mike Dinsdale / Midi Photography and Steve Samosa Photography • The Build Back Better Awards celebrates and rewards innovation, creativity, environmental leadership and social purpose in the built environment. Learn more: link in the comments

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

Improve Your Studio Apartment Design By Applying These 10 Inspiring Setups

In Boulder, Colorado, a $15M contemporary mansion aims to set new local record https://ift.tt/qmgPeU6 We don’t often head into the heart of the Rockies, but this week, we’re making an exception for something truly special — a striking modern retreat in Boulder, Colorado, that just hit the market with a $15 million price tag. And if it sells anywhere near its asking price, the Boulder house will set a new local record. Again! With a prime location at 1505 Sunset Boulevard, the property is currently the most expensive home for sale in the foothills of the Flatirons, and will likely become the highest recorded sale in Boulder once sold — dethroning a record set by this very house when it last sold in June 2021 for $13,200,000. Past media coverage says another neighboring property (set just a few doors down at 1489 Sunset Blvd.) is the record-holder, after selling in January 2023 for a hefty $13 million. But a quick look at 1505 Sunset Boulevard’s public records show a previous sale that tops it, at $13.2 million. Regardless, the sleek home is now back on the market and likely to set a new record in the process. Marybeth Emerson of The Agency Boulder holds the listing. Get your property news in real time: Follow us on Google News A distinctly contemporary house in downtown Boulder, Colorado Photo credit: Andrew Forino | Photography and Video Blending modern luxury with the wild beauty of the great outdoors, the newly listed property is ideally located on a 0.44-acre lot in a prime downtown location, close to Boulder’s beloved Pearl Street.  With the best of Boulder within walking distance, the home also enjoys unobstructed views of the Flatirons and Foothills. Unassuming from the front Photo credit: Andrew Forino | Photography and Video With decidedly contemporary architecture, the home’s street-facing facade doesn’t really give away its size — best observed from the backyard — but lures the eye in with its clean lines, modern design, and floor-to-ceiling windows. Pairing modern architecture with cutting-edge features Photo credit: Andrew Forino | Photography and Video Designed by the visionaries at Surround Architecture, an award-winning local design firm known for fusing cutting-edge architectural design with uncompromising technical competence, and built by Harrington Stanko in 2016, the home blends timeless elegance with modern sophistication and conveniences. Fittingly, the home has been appointed with a state-of-the-art Savant home automation system and an elevator servicing all floors. The contemporary design continues inside Photo credit: Andrew Forino | Photography and Video The 7,246-square-foot home has 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, with large, light-filled common areas brimming with modern, elegant finishes and 12′ wide plank white oak floors throughout. An open floorplan provides ample space for gatherings Photo credit: Andrew Forino | Photography and Video The main living area transitions easily from...