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BIG reveals Nashville performing arts centre wrapped in aluminium pipes

Dezeen·Ben Dreith·about 1 month ago
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Danish architecture studio BIG has released designs for the riverside Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville , USA, which will be covered with a swooping curtain of metal pipes. A design team consisting of BIG , William Rawn Associates  and Hastings Architecture recently released renderings of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC). The design's main feature is a massive metal curtain that, according to BIG, is a reference to a theatre curtain. BIG is designing the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville Consisting of bundled aluminium, the curtain will narrow toward the middle of each of the building's facades, revealing expanses of glass that open up the interior to the city, river and the grounds. "The facade is composed of aluminum tubes bundled like organ pipes or steel chimes, undulating from vertical to horizontal to provide openings and canopies for the audience and performers passing through," said BIG founder Bjarke Ingels.…

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