More often than not, I visit a completed project and find that subsequent additions have destroyed the once-clean ceiling with random openings for: sprinklers, motion sensors, speakers, HVAC equipment, and smoke detectors. It's something, that as a designer, ruins the architecture of the room. Does anyone else find this to be true?
This is very true. Ceilings are one of the most detracting elements of many designs. Maybe this is why the "exposed" look has become more popular lately, because if you show everything then one little thing can't detract.
I appreciate a well organized set of sensors lights and sprinklers, I feel like it's a sign of a well designed space when I see it.
Look into techzone and flexzone by Armstrong. Then coordinate, coordinate, coordinate. Then talk to your CA person and explain the importance of a clean ceiling.
I think architects are the only people who look at the ceiling. Take a look at the ceilings in restaurants. I would hope if normal people and the people who own the place actually looked up most of them wouldn't be a nasty as they are.
If you are a restaurant designer please use black tile and grid, at least that way we can't see the crap that's building up on them.
Did you ever notice how few glamour shots of rooms show the ceiling?
More often than not, I visit a completed project and find that subsequent additions have destroyed the once-clean ceiling with random openings for: sprinklers, motion sensors, speakers, HVAC equipment, and smoke detectors. It's something, that as a designer, ruins the architecture of the room. Does anyone else find this to be true?
This is very true. Ceilings are one of the most detracting elements of many designs. Maybe this is why the "exposed" look has become more popular lately, because if you show everything then one little thing can't detract.
I appreciate a well organized set of sensors lights and sprinklers, I feel like it's a sign of a well designed space when I see it.
photoshop.
Look into techzone and flexzone by Armstrong. Then coordinate, coordinate, coordinate. Then talk to your CA person and explain the importance of a clean ceiling.
Nobody likes acne.
I beg to differ.
This also ....
my cool ceiling got ve'd.
Its like having too much sky in a photograph. There is nothing wrong with a beautiful blue sky- but too much and it distracts from the scene...
Amazing!
I think architects are the only people who look at the ceiling. Take a look at the ceilings in restaurants. I would hope if normal people and the people who own the place actually looked up most of them wouldn't be a nasty as they are.
If you are a restaurant designer please use black tile and grid, at least that way we can't see the crap that's building up on them.
Haven't noticed that at all. Do you have any evidence for this?
Dresden Frauenkirche ceiling and tourists.
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