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Sana Al-Nour was commissioned by the Abu Dhabi state airport authority (ADAC) as an integrated artwork to direct light and air between the departures and arrivals levels of the new Midfield Terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport, currently scheduled to be opened in 2019. It is…
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The ‘Glass Stair + Skylight’ is for a private apartment and provides the vertical axis which the apartment revolves around. It is a unifying element within the design, guiding daylight into the central spaces. The large, openable Skylight and apparent weightlessness of the Glass Stair…
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The Sky Reflector Net – an integrated artwork for the Fulton Center, is an artist, architect and engineer collaboration between JCDA, Grimshaw Architects and Arup, commissioned by MTA Downtown Transit Center. The Sky Reflector Net builds upon Grimshaw Architects’ fundamental intent for the central atrium…
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The Transition Screens are used at the two boundaries between the landsideand airside areas in Terminal 5 at Heathrow International Airport. On either side of the landside boundary passage and waiting area these screens mask concealed security staff who can monitor passengers without being seen…
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This competition entry was initiated to stimulate debate about the design of renewable energy installations by connecting them to the idea of landart on a series of sites in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The proposal connects the individual to the immense scale of the landscape…
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JCDA led the design for the renovation and expansion of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem deploying light to articulate the visitors’ passage through the campus. The scheme is new construction totalling 95,000 sq ft. It includes the reorganization of visitor circulation and new entrance pavilions. These…
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The Ice Falls transforms the new Hearst HQ public entrance lobby into an extraordinary threshold by a custom-designed installation of raked cast prisms. The original building’s six-storey façade is retained adding a one-storey high clerestory and glass roof, from which the Foster + Partner’s Hearst…
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The Plantation Place Galleria is a covered semi-public passageway between two phases of a new office development in the heart of the City of London. The design is a transparent glass roof with a minimal number of structural elements. To achieve this, the glass is…
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A new coloured and mirrored curved passage cuts through the ground floor of an office building on Leipziger Platz, Berlin creating an unexpected spatial experience. A bright wall with a different colour at either end lines one side of the space. Because of the curved…
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The Light Portal is a fully-integrated public artwork within a huge infrastructure project using available daylight and light captured from car headlights to connect the pedestrian routes around the site. The new tunnel entrance for the main highway up the Eastern Seaboard creates a void…
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The conventional views of the surrounding landscape are layered with their own reflections as well as the optical pixelating effect created by the grid patterns on the glass of the Moiré Stair Tower. The new Deutsche Post headquarters was designed by Murphy Jahn Architects as…
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JCDA developed a competition-winning design entry for the redevelopment of the James A. Farley Post Office proposing a series of strategic, lightweight roofing structures to create a visually powerful urban presence for the building. The ambition was to re-vitalise the Post Office into a significant…
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