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Atriums + Sections

Offices and cultural buildings both offer the perfect opportunity to design the atrium of your dreams. These central spaces, designed to allow serendipitous meetings of users or to help with orientation in the building, are spacious and offer a lot of design freedom. Imposing scales, sculptural stairs, eccentric materials, and indoor vegetation are just some of the resources used to give life to these spaces.

Identified from the top:

Macquarie Bank Clive Wilkinson Architects

Polak Building Paul de Ruiter Architects

UN City 3XN

Rijksmuseum Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

Day to Night 

With his Couleurs Separées project, the Canadian photographer Carl-Antonyn Dufault, based in Montreal, is assembling together in the same photograph day and night, but also summer and winter, creating amazing and contrasting temporal windows.

Special mention to the image below, and urban park in Montreal in front of the CHUM construction site that I walked by everyday on the walk to the office.

Daniel Buren’s ‘Observatory of Light’ at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

French conceptual artist Daniel Buren has created a temporary, site-specific work for the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton building, in the Bois de Boulogne park in western Paris. For “Observatory of Light,” Buren installed 3,600 pieces of glass in a 13-color checkerboard pattern on the building’s translucent, curved glass sails.

Opera David Leventi

“Opera” records the interiors of world-famous opera houses, all photographed with 4x5” and 8x10” Arca-Swiss cameras to maximize detail. Architecturally meticulous, this body of work serves to historically document these national and cultural landmarks. 

Moon Domicile Chris Cornelius

Check out this tumblr!

From the artist: 

The Moon Domicile series are based upon the moon calendar of my culture, the Oneida Nation. Each new moon in the cycle signifies a new ceremony/ritual which is guided by an observation within nature. Some are about cultivating, harvesting, or restoring. This series of dwellings take on each of these moons and utilizes the associated month’s wind data – It is to suppose that the builder/architect of these has such a tacit understanding of this data it naturally manifests itself in the design. We are not sure whether that builder/architect is human, animal or other.

Each dwelling utilizes the data via form in unique ways. The context for each dwelling is not fully resolved, other than how it meets the Earth.