Public Works Building Uses Roads as Design Motif September 01, 2020 A public works department in Bexar County, San Antonio, TX, has a unique approach to the design of various aspects of their new building. They’ve created a motif using “an abstracted map of the major county roads,” which is repeated in various locations throughout the building. The motif appears on a perforated screen on the […] Read More
Ural Philharmonic Concert Hall to Mimic Sound Waves December 01, 2018 Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The venue will contain a 1600-seat concert hall and a smaller 400-seat chamber music hall. “Echoing the physical aspects of sound waves, the design of the new philharmonic concert hall is based on the properties of musical sound […] Read More
