newatlas.com: People often dress up to go to the theater but with this project, the theater itself is looking rather dapper. Designed by high-profile firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the new National Theatre of Albania will resemble an oversized bow tie and offer a view of backstage with glazed facades.
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This theater sounds really amazing. I love the architecture both inside and outside and the efficient use of space. The amphitheater on the top looks really really cool, and fits in perfectly with the top shape of a bow tie. One side of the building is a glass wall, which is interesting and really beautiful for the spaces like the lounge and bar, and I think as long as there’s an opportunity to put on curtains to black out the light when necessary, the windows could be used in an interesting way. I once saw a production of Colossal at the Dallas Theater Center, and it’s a play that surrounds football and masculinity (but what play doesn’t involve masculinity to be honest?) and they left the windows open for when the audience came in to make it feel as though you were going to a football game. Doing something like that would work well in that space. I hope the Bow Tie can become a place for Albania art to be produced and/or created so we can all learn a little more.
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew it was Bjarke Ingels and his big group. This has me so excited to see them moving back into public spaces and creating places with a unique design and function. This space is so cool looking and I love how the design creates three unique and dynamic spaces for theatre makers in entirely different environments. Doing this all under one roof with an interesting and something that I think will fit perfectly in a National theater's repertoire. Using the height and taking just the space that the theatre needs and balancing it is so beautiful. Having Five different performance spaces in one building is huge and having each one in such a unique setting is so interesting. The two outside Theaters I think could have such interesting performances and incorporations of the buildings design into the performances themselves. I love what i see and how much use they would be able to get out this space without imposing to much on the natural footprint of the world I think that's so important. The windows I think epitomize this the most with the light and the world around it coming in and the "bowtie" shape allows the building to allow the natural flow of traffic flow through the building which is also beautiful for a theatre space trying to be apart of the world moving forward.
I love the architecture of arts buildings. I think arts buildings have some of the coolest architecture. For example, the Guggenheim Museum in New Your City, The Broad Museum and Disney Concert Hall both in Los Angeles. All three of those buildings have very eclectic and unique facades that I believe act like the physical representation of the creativity that happens on the inside so that it can be experienced at any time of day by passersby on the street. This new theater in Albania goes even further with this concept of the physical manifestation of creativity through architecture by actually showing the creativity happening on the inside, to the outside world in real time in the form of windows. The architecture for creative buildings, in my opinion, follows closely to the common saying “form follows function” in that the form of the building being sometimes wild and fun and out of the box follows the function of creativity that that building provides.
This design for this up and coming theatre looks very interesting. It looks like to me, they have tried to find a single show that could be used in different ways to house multiple venues . The idea that the space above and below the main theatre is truly intriguing. Its a willed concept for me, because it looks so natural and obvious. I think this spaces will be elegant like all not theatre, I just hope it is also able to create some character. I was also interested in the interior rendering of the main auditorium. Im not one hundred percent sold on the red pillow case style walled surfaces but it defiantly caught my eye. I think like some overly architected prosceniums, that too much ‘art deco’ for example can be very distracting and in direct contrast to the production at hand, that its better to not have too much wow factor before the designer for the next show even enters the building.
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