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SECOND PLACE: HOUSE OF VANS, UK Location: London, UK Lighting Design: Tim Greatrex & Panos Andrikopoulos, UK Client: Vans Architect: Tim Greatrex Architect, UK Interior Design: Hellicar & Lewis, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: Projection Lighting, Sylvania
The House of Vans London is a new mixed use creative venue for Vans enthusiasts and those interested in skateboarding culture. It has been established as a place to participate in the cultural lineage of skateboarding that has defined the Vans brand since 1966, combining skateboarding, art, film and music. The new venue includes an art gallery, ‘Vans labs’ creative spaces, screening room, live music for 850 people, a premium café, numerous bars and a three tier indoor concrete skate park. It is the largest permanent venture by Vans globally and the first European edition of the House of Vans, following the first in Brooklyn NY back in 2010.
THIRD PLACE: PINGTIAN FARMING MUSEUM & MANUAL WORKSHOP, CHINA Location: Pingtian Village, Songyang County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, China Lighting Design: X Studio in School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China Architect: DnA_Design & Architecture / Xu Tiantian, China Client: The government of Songyang County Interior Design: DnA_Design & Architecture / Xu Tiantian, China Main Lighting Suppliers: Sidon
Lighting design highlights the aesthetics of original space, wood structure and materials, and creates the interests of visual montage. The Farming Museum has two floors. The first floor is the display district for folk custom. Reducing ambient luminance and linking with the dark environment of outside the village at night naturally. Keeping traditional atmosphere and doing accent lighting only for these farming tools and a model of the village. 1W LED spotlights illuminate the model of the village so as to simulate the effects of sunlight and leave dramatic shadows on the ground.
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