The Dichroic Light Field responds to the planar nature of the setting and appears to trap ambient light on the surface while creating an illusion of depth. It is the winning competition entry for the blank exterior wall of a health club on Columbus Avenue…
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…
The Fluid Glass installation was to be the first architectural-scale structure ever constructed from this type of ultra-thin glass. The form celebrates the material and reflects the serpentine convolutions of the River Thames. The Fluid Glass sculpture was proposed for the London Design Festival and…
The Lens Ceiling is a unique public artwork that is the focal point of the Special Proceedings Courtroom of the new Federal Building and US Courthouse in Phoenix, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. This delicate, suspended cable structure is a spherical form intersecting a…
The design of the Lichthof Façade in the German Foreign Office in Berlin creates a physical and symbolic threshold. Transparent but at the same time a boundary, the ambiguity inherent in using glass as a metaphor for openness is made explicit. Conceived by the architects…
A close collaboration with architect, contractor and client has produced a successfully integrated and subtle work, which uses the fins on the façade to maximise the effect of the light conditions on the inside and outside of the building. The artwork is integrated within the…
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…
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…
The Schubert Club Band Shell is a delicate anticlastic shell designed as a visual landmark for Raspberry Island in the Mississippi River running through the city of St Paul. This delicate roof structure is a double- curvature geometric form composed of glass and stainless steel…
A series of curved glass screens were proposed for this public space to mitigate the effects of wind between three buildings at this prominent retail and office development in Victoria, London. The interstitial pedestrian space between the buildings has a long-standing problem with high wind…
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…
The design incorporates medical MRI technology image of hands into glass fins which highlight the entrance lobby to the new clinic. The façade of this outpatient facility for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, at their historic base in central London, incorporates medical imagery using the…