A field of glass tubes inventively support a curtain wall between two new buildings by Foster + Partners, pushing the boundaries of glass. The project was initiated as a concept design to help define the public space in between two new buildings adjacent to the…
This simple architectural and narrative device simultaneously defines and unites the old Reichsbank Building that has been renovated as the German Foreign Ministry and its new extension. The spaces are linked by the Light Tunnel that is a liminal space between past and present, old…
The Solar Light Pipe makes the rhythm of the day and seasons perceptible by reflecting the changing light conditions within the building itself. The Solar Light Pipe is a Carpenter / Norris project, which introduces daylight deep into the building through its tall and narrow…
This competition entry for a glass bridge creates an illusion of lightness and delight through a dialogue between materials, geometry and structure interacting with the phenomena of light. This bridge connects both buildings for the students to use back and forth on their way to…
The Wabasha Street Bridge is a proposal for a major vehicular and pedestrian crossing over the Mississippi River in downtown St Paul. The Wabasha Street Bridge’s significance for the city is not only its central location, but also its historic importance as the first river…
This design of an underground passage was part of a competition for a new office building complex. The Thuringia Passage links the three buildings and creates the illusion of shorter walkways across the connector. By introducing a continuous rooflight, the underground space is visually linked…
Light is information about our surroundings. The presence of the new park is reflected onto the screen, and shimmering shifts in light and colour are captured on its surfaces. The viewer is made more aware of his or her own presence in this particular place…
The proposed façade works with two specific perspectival views to draw the viewer into a visual dialogue with the orthogonal order of the architectural facades. The proposal uses the surfaces of the external glass fins across the facades. A two dimensional abstract pattern is overlaid…
Incorporating a heliostat to track the path of the sun, the Light Tube distributes and diffuses sunlight within this five storey office building in central London. The light-tube proposal builds on the earlier heliostatic light-tube project by Carpenter/Norris Consulting that was completed in 2001 in…
Columns of melting ice – the thaw of icicles in the spring: these are the images that are brought to mind by the twin fascinations of the sight of water moving through cylinders of glass, and the restful sound of dripping water. This is a…