The Valley Performing Arts Center was designed by HGA Architects and Engineers that situated at California State University, in Northridge, Los Angeles, United States is a 166,000 square feet building that built as a memorable architectural and cultural landmark for the entire San Fernando Valley. The Valley Performing Arts Center consist of combination between a 1,700 seat multipurpose concert hall with a 178 seat black box theatre, backstage support, classrooms, a lecture room with 230 seat that available, rehearsal and events space and a broadcast facility for KCSN public radio. Read more »

The Jellyfish Theatre is a temporary timber theatre building that ever established as a performance space for The Oikos Project, an independent festival of experimental theatre in London. The Jellyfish Theatre building has designed by Folke Koebberling / Martin Kaltwasser which inspired by the box jellyfish. The Jellyfish Theatre building was constructed using scrap timber material collected from construction sites all over the inner city and then developed as an abstract vision of the lethal box jellyfish (Chironex Fleckeri). Read more »

The Studio Theatre and Sixth Form Centre was designed by Paul Vick Architects is located in Brentford, United Kingdom. Brentford School for Girls (BSfG) is a state school with approximately 900 girls, 50 different ethnic groups many of whom are first generation from abroad and has 50 languages spoken. The experience of a first generation pupil to schooling in the UK is not to be underestimated. This is clearly a school transforming lives and one that is itself transforming. The school recently managed to have its first students go to Oxbridge and for the first time, in 2009, had a waiting list for places. Not surprisingly perhaps for this change to happen it has developed two curricular Specialisms both related to communication and engagement: one in Arts & Media and the other in ICT. The Head’s brief was clear: requiring a building that would inspire students to want to learn and allow them to engage with the content provided by the teaching. From a content point of view, the building was to support its curricular Specialisms outlined above. A studio theatre and sixth form centre with ICT room were to be provided. Read more »

The Theater Podium Grotekerkplein was designed by architects Atelier Kempe Thill. Situated between the gothic Sint Laurenskerk (Saint Laurens cathedral) and the Delftsevaart canal, the Grotekerkplein was formed only during the course of the modernist reconstruction of the city centre of Rotterdam, which was almost entirely destroyed during WW2. Despite its central location the square hardly plays a role in the city’s life, as no shopping streets connect it to the rest of the city’s public spaces, and only a few facilities are oriented towards the square itself. Instead, a number of building backs define the square’s appearance and atmosphere, leaving it spatially unappealing and dull. Therefore the idea emerged to activate the square programmatically as well as spatially through the construction of a small theater pavilion, in order to fill the displeasing vacuum within the city fabric. Read more »

Horizon Centre for education, innovation and research in healthcare was designed by Devereux Architects is located in Devon, United Kingdom. The brief for this recently completed project in Torbay called for a new, exciting and innovative centre of education, learning & research for NHS professionals. The aim was to replace the existing medical centre, which contains limited facilities, with a new state of the art Centre of Learning, incorporating a range of flexible learning spaces, seminar and teaching rooms, offices and a café area, as well as high tech clinical skills areas and a simulated operating theatre. Read more »