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Herning Museum of Contemporary Art | Steven Holl architects

Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a first prize winning project designed by Steven Holl Architects to accommodate exhibition galleries, 150 seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, restaurant, media library and administrative offices. The museum will open to public on September 9 2009.

+ Project description courtesy of Steven Holl architects

The Herning Center of the Arts unites three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art , the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde. The new center is intended to be an innovative forum combining visual art and music.

The museum’s design fuses landscape and architecture in a one-level building that will include permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a 150-seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, a restaurant, a media library, and administrative offices.

Herning’s prominent relationship with textiles and the Museum’s large collection of original works by Piero Manzoni (in total 46 works) form the inspiration for the concept design. The museum is sited near Herning’s original Angli shirt factory, and the shirt collar-shaped plan of its 1960s building has inspired the shape of the new museum building.

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Low Voltage Landscape Lighting By Jeff Halper At Isnare.com Ezine ...

As low voltage landscape lighting technology has evolved over the years, it has come to enjoy a position of prominence in many aspects of outdoor lighting. Its decorative enhancement of certain types of landscape forms is unsurpassed. Its cost-savings potential is much higher as well because it is much cheaper to operate than high voltage equipment. Low voltage lighting is also much safer for homes with children and pets because there is insufficient charge in the wire to deliver a serious injury or lethal shock.

Traditionally, standard landscape lights were made from tungsten filament lamps. Although primitive, the color temperatures they emit are perfect for bringing out the rich tones in masonry, wood, stucco, and home architectural keynotes. In the world of landscape lighting, incandescent lamps are still prized because they can be dimmed to create different moods and lighting effects. The problem with these lights is they burn out very quickly. Even though they are the least expensive fixtures in terms of front end costs, they typically have to be switched out annually due to short lamp life. This makes them expensive both to operate and to replace.

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