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Ten Top Images on Archinect's "Installations" Pinterest Board

2013-02-15T09:00:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Installations.

↑ Emmy's After Party Flowers in Beverly Hills, CA by Lawrence Griffin

↑ The Irrational City | Common Ground | Biennale Di Venezia 2012 in Venice, Italy by Paolo Cesaretti and Antonella Dedini in collaboration with Kostantia Manthou (Photo: Simone Simone)

↑ Fantastic Trailer in Bloomfield Hills, MI by Cheryl Baxter

↑ Pipe Light installation in São Paulo, Brazil by Triptyque Architects in collaboration with Marc Roca Bravo (Photo: Triptyque Architects)

↑ Droplet Chandelier in Wujin, China by Ballistic Architecture Machine

↑ Grid (h)ome pavillon in Rome, Italy by COdesignLab, UniNa, Selve del Balzo, InArch, Casa dell'Architettura (team member: Silvia Piccione)

↑ HEX Wall - Installatio...

INABA Completes Skylight

2013-01-14T19:32:00-05:00

INABA has completed Skylight, a permanent installation for KORO Public Art Norway. The 6.6 m (22 ft) diameter, 11.5 m (38 ft) long structure hangs from the foyer of the New Concert Hall in Stavanger, Norway. It is visible from the adjacent public plaza, and surrounding neighborhood and harbor, serving as a light beacon for the complex. Responding to the region’s extreme atmospheric conditions, Skylight emits a range of pure color light patterns that contrast and complement the blended luminous tones of the dawn and twilight Nordic sky. Conceived of as an inverted chandelier, Skylight’s light fixtures are mounted to face inward and illuminate the structure’s interior surface. Its programmable LED system is animated to change in brightness and hue, and produce distinct patterns during arrival, theater calls, intermission, departure, and after hours.

Skylight is based on a simple cylinder. Areas along the surface of the cylinder were removed to create views from the five-stor...

Architects, artists create lights for MAK Center auction

2012-11-08T17:34:00-05:00

Some of L.A.’s best known architecture firms and artists have designed one-of-a-kind lamps to be auctioned Nov. 2 at a fund-raiser for the MAK Center in West Hollywood. Among those who designed, produced and donated their work for the event, dubbed “Light My Way, Stranger”: Ball-Nogues Studio, Cory Buckner, Ehrlich Architects, Hodgetts & Fung, Eric Owen Moss, Barbara Bestor, Dewey Ambrosino, Liz Larner and Sam Durant.

Jonathan Speirs, lighting designer, dead at 54

2012-07-02T13:11:00-04:00

When, in 2005, he was asked to propose a long-term lighting strategy for the city of Durham, the architect Jonathan Speirs, who has died of stomach cancer aged 54, insisted that what the council really needed was a light and darkness strategy

Bruce Munro Announces Largest Solar-Powered Field of Light for Ayers Rock, Australia in 2013!

2012-06-29T14:12:00-04:00

After a series of acclaimed installations around the world, Munro will be bringing his Fields of Light back to the project’s birthplace at Ayers Rock (Uluru) in the heart of the Australian red desert in 2013. The installation will be his largest to date, and it will be powered entirely by solar energy.

Surface Tension Lamp by Front

2012-04-16T19:50:00-04:00

A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured temporary structure. We wanted to create a constantly changing lamp that combines the most ephemeral of lampshades with an LED light source that will last for 50000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.

bracket [goes soft]: Buoyant Light

2012-04-16T18:24:00-04:00

In anticipation of this week's event, Publish Or... bracket [GOES SOFT], we will be showcasing a piece from the book each day this week. We hope to see you this Thursday!

Buoyant Light
by Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez

The Canadian Arctic is a vast landscape, dotted with remote communities whose lives depend on natural cycles for subsistence. While imagining widespread distribution, Buoyant Light is sited in Igloolik, an Inuit community of 1600 at 70 degrees North with active creative and research programs. Like much of the Arctic, Igloolik is witness to acute changes in permafrost, sea levels and ice. As an island, it is particularly vulnerable to unreliable freeze-thaw cycles of the sea which directly affects safe hunting and traveling.

Image: View of Igloolik at night, illuminated on land and water by a distributed series of buoyant lights.

Buoyant Light consists of a balloon and a buoy which serve a dual function: to harvest solar energy, providing Iglooli...

All the Lights of the Kingdom

2012-03-21T18:34:00-04:00

I think Magic Kingdom is an exemplary model of superb light fixture choice in themed design; there is very little overlap and redundancy but very few fixtures call attention to themselves. Still, it would be offensive and out of place to offer modern LED freeway light poles in Liberty Square, so the lamps and light fixtures deserve our respect and appreciation as well: another hallmark of the WED tradition of perfection down to the tiniest detail.

Soda bottle + sunlight + water + chlorine = 55 Watt lightbulb

2012-01-13T11:30:00-05:00

A simple, yet brilliant, new concept is providing free solar-powered light for thousands of families in poverty-stricken Philippines.

Lit Up: an LED lighting field trial

2011-12-16T08:18:30-05:00

"We like to test things in-situ in order to understand their real performance rather than rely on manufacturers' claims," explained James Russill, EST's technical development manager

The UK based Energy Saving Trust (EST), has completed a study which measured the performance of more than 4,250 LED light fittings installed at 35 sites. The LED lights were all installed in social housing and based on the findings, EST suggests the "new technology" can deliver huge energy savings, reduce costs and makes residents feel safer. To read the report in its entirety visit the EST's site here.