Liquid light for Jiaxing Train Station
Jiaxing Railway Station, officially named “The Train Station in the Forest”, is located in the center of Jiaxing, a city south of Shanghai on the railroad line to Kunming.
MAD Architects installed three platforms with six tracks on a 35.4-acre site with a frequency of approximately 2,300 travellers per hour in the basement.
Dongning Wang and his team planned two different lighting concepts for the reconstructed building made of stone with bricks and for the modern one made of glass with concrete, which relate to each other in terms of architecture.
Author: Helena Horn
THE STATE OF AFFAIRS?
An event project on sustainability
Questions about (im)possibilities
The programme offers a forum to ask open questions, to discuss possibilities and impossibilities, to let opposites stand side by side if necessary. Thematically, the spectrum ranges from questions about the aware use of resources to openness to diversity. How are our individual behaviour patterns connected to what is happening on a regional and global level? What role does our consumer behaviour play? → Read more
KIMSOOJA
Weaving the Light
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museums commission an artist to create a site-specific work for the Cistern in Copenhagen. The 4,400 m² water reservoir offers a cave-like ambience: The humidity is almost 100%, daylight never invades, echoes only fade after 17 seconds and the temperature varies between 4 and 16 degrees. → Read more
Ann Veronica Janssens
Grand Bal
Retrospective >> Ann Veronica Janssens. In her 40-year career, Janssens has worked primarily with light, but has also explored the sensory and performative nature of space and architecture. She examines the limits of human perception and psyche, as well as the aleatory associations of natural phenomena down to their minimal scale. → Read more
CAUTION GLASS!
Stained Glass > Joep Nicolas + Liberna Collection
The Draiflessen Collection presents a joint exhibition on the art of stained glass, spanning the Middle Ages, the Baroque period and the 20th century. The exhibition shows that stained glass has a long tradition. It highlights the iconographic and technical features of this genre of art and offers insights into the background of the history of its development. → Read more
25th European Lighting Congress in Salzburg
FILD is official partner of LICHT2023
FILD, the federation of the International Association of Lighting Designers, is a partner of the 25th joint conference of the lighting technology societies of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as is LUXLUMINA. The future of lighting design will be discussed and awareness raised of the fact that new technologies do not simply replace devices, but create beneficial lighting spaces. → Read more
Inge Dick
LICHT:ZEIT:FARBE
Inge Dick takes us into a world of colours of light never seen before. With experimental and at the same time poetic photography, she traces the essence of light. Through years of artistic research, Inge Dick has succeeded in capturing the incredible richness of colour in natural light. She makes the changing colour temperatures of the day and the seasons visible – in small formats as well as large-scale installations. → Read more
LIT Lighting Design Awards 2021
The Winners 2021
The LIT Lighting Design Awards (Los Angeles, CA/USA) was created five years ago to recognize the efforts of talented international lighting product designers and lighting implementers. “We have received a collection of incredible works with over 500 applications from 33 countries, making this program a global reference in the lighting industry” said Astrid Hébert, Program Director. “At the LIT Design Awards, we strive to support and promote not only inspired projects and innovation by professional designers but also fresh and stimulating work by emerging designers and students. This program will continue to define the future of excellence in the lighting industry.” → Read more
Light art is falling into disrepute
Dan Flavin’s light installation to be switched off
A visionary apparition in the cityscape
Dan Flavin’s iconic light installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is to be switched off. – In 1996, Dan Flavin succeeded in using light to give the magnificent railway station building of the late classicism of the 1840s a futuristic appearance. Even though railway stations in the 19th century were celebrated as cathedrals of the industrial age, Dan Flavin’s light installation has turned the historic station into a visual myth to this day. → Read more
Michael Pinsky – THE FINAL BID
An ecologic simulation and a resource-saving auction
Michael Pinsky makes the air and climate change the content of his work and especially in the exhibition at the Draiflessen Collection he focuses on sustainability as an action principle for the use of resources. With the processual installation THE FINAL BID – which Pinsky will realise for the first time in the Draiflessen Collection – he transforms the museum into an auction hall for chairs. The largest part of our personal Co2 footprint is caused by the consumption of clothing and household goods.
Read the full article including the interview with Michael Pinsky in the August issue > 2022_o3 .. → Read more