BAIA Graduate Laura Metcalfe wins National Interior Educators Award for Best Student Project

Opening the Black Box by Laura Metcalfe, viewing lines for open air theatre

Laura Metcalfe has won the National Interior Educators Award for Best Student Project for her project entitled Opening the Black Box.  

Congratulations, Laura!

More about her and other BAIA student's recent awards here.

National Sawdust in Brooklyn by Bureau V

National Sawdust is a multi-purpose space that "...aims to be many things: an acoustically sound concert hall, a rehearsal and recording studio, an incubator for contemporary music, and a restaurant and bar featuring an award-winning chef."

photos by Kim Nowacki/WQXR)

You can read more about the space and the design here, and listen to a news story below.

ABSENT installation at Shoreditch Town Hall

"A young woman enters a hotel. She is magnetic and compelling, yet strangely detached, as if in a dream; she knows everyone, yet is utterly alone; she has many lovers, but loves no one; she is 18 years old 

- or is she 80?" 

—
ABSENT

A dreamlike installation 

Commissioned by
SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL,
LIFT and LEFTCOAST

SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL
Monday 24 August - Sunday 25 October

Mon - Fri from 6pm | Sat & Sun from 12pm

Tickets

and more about 'ambulatory theater-as-installation' here.

Performing MDM Opera House By Jie Shen

In this "...design for an opera in Warsaw by the London based architect Jie Shen... the model is not so much a representative tool than a diminished scale building in which materials match with their potential real application...the proposed opera introduces a rough vocabulary which recalls the one used in naval construction." 

more at the funambulist.

The xx's Temporary Performance Space in the Park Avenue Armory

London-based band xx is doing a series of shows in a temporary installation in New York's Park Avenue Armory.  This video describes the design as well as past installations in the building.  It also describes the building itself, parts of which recently were renovated by Herzog and deMeuron.

Models by Naomi Kasahara

Naomi Kasahara is a set designer based in Long Beach, California.  Her excellent models, especially when photographed well as they are above, show materiality, equipment, structure, lights, and people (including actors and audience).

'Bastard Store' by studiometrico

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From archdaily: "Italian practice studiometrico shared with us how they converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new Bastard flagship store, which also includes a suspended bowl and offices for Comvert."

more here.