Performing Arts Centers: Dallas Arts District Winspear Opera House Wyly Theatre Copenhagen Concert Hall Copenhagen, Denmark Ateliers Jean Nouvel Model behavior: A not-so-miniature version of the real thing helps tune a design From the earliest stages of the project, the client for Jean Nouvel’s Copenhagen Concert Hall, the Danish Radio, had decided that the building’s main auditorium should have a so-called “vineyard configuration,” or one in which stepped blocks of seating surround the stage. Even though there are many shoebox-shaped halls with excellent acoustics, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (Adolf Leonard van Gendt, 1888) and Boston Symphony Hall (McKim, Mead & White,

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Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Milwaukee, Wisconsin Donald Grieb << Return to article the People Owner: Milwaukee County Parks Architect: Original Architect: Donald Grieb (retired) Lobby Architects * Lobby renovations not included in the overall 550,000 budget; Lobby renovation began after CLD-E won design award.  Quorum Architects, Inc – Allyson Nemec, AIA 414-265-9265 Zimmerman Design Group - Michael Kramer 414.918.1478 Consultant(s) Lighting: Creative Lighting Design and Engineering, LLC. (CLD-E) Marty Peck, Principal, LC, IALD, IESNA Teresa Haas, project manager Garrett Maas, designer General contractor: ELECTRICAL: Good Electric, Dave Drumel, PE

Project Specs Armani/5th Avenue New York, USA Studio Fuksas Architects << Return to article the People Architect Studio Fuksas Architects Piazza del Monte de Pieta, 30 00186 Roma T: +39 06 6880 7871 F: +39 06 6880 7872 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Interior designer: Studio Fuksas Engineer(s): Rosini Engineers Consultant(s) Lighting: Speirs and Major Associates General contractor: Americon Photographer: Ramon Prat, Alan Toft Renderer(s): SaMA CAD system, project management, or other software used: Autocad, Photoshop, Excel   the Products

Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect Total Lighting Solutions lights the way for Vancouver's new transit system Soft, tranquil, diffuse — not words you would expect to describe the light in a subway. Vancouver’s new Canada Line, an extension of the city’s rapid-rail transit, opened in August 2009, ahead of schedule for the 2010 Olympics, and is already carrying more than 100,000 passengers a day — well above anticipated ridership. Worth about 10

Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Canada Line British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect << Return to article the People Owner: Public Private Partnership Project. Funded by the Government of Canada, Province of British Columbia, Vancouver Airport Authority, the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (Translink – formerly named Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority) and City of Vancouver. Participating Agency:  City of Richmond “Design, Build, partially Finance, Operate and Maintain” project. – The Concessionaire for the Project is

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Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Milwaukee, Wisconsin Donald Grieb CLD-E illuminates a Milwaukee landmark Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a complex of three connected structures commonly and affectionately known as “the Domes,” needed a significant revitalization. Photo courtesy CLD-E/Marty peck Designed in the late 1950s by local architect Donald Grieb and dedicated at its opening in the mid-1960s by Lady Bird Johnson, then first lady, the conservatory comprises three 15,000-square-foot conoidal domes composed of a precast concrete substructure and aluminum-framed glass. One hundred and forty feet in diameter at the base and 85 feet high, each