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Avery Associates Architects Looks East
Whilst the economy here remains unsettled we've been moving our interest Eastwards. We're currently involved in designing a large new villa outside Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and we've also been using the experience gained from building the British Film Institute's IMAX cinema in London for new IMAX cinemas in Dubai, Jerusalem and China.
We've also been out to India looking at projects in Kolkata and Ahmedebad too. To the North of India we're currently involved in a master planning and development initiative in Irkutsk (see images left).
Nearer home Bryan was recently a final-year external assessor at the Bucharest University School of Architecture where he also gave an open lecture on the practice's work.
Just slightly North and East of Bucharest is the city of Perm in Russia. Hard by the Ural Mountains it was until the collapse of the Soviet Union a closed city specialising in the aerospace and armaments industries. Now it needs a re-direction and the practice was shortlisted as one of six from Russia, Denmark, Holland and the UK to help regenerate the culture of the city.
Our design for the new Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre included an extremely versatile 1100 seat auditorium providing for opera, ballet, dance, orchestral works, and for civic use, conferences and fashion shows.
Its forms were developed in response to the deep Russian love of nature and the forest wildernesses of the region - a theme that echoes Bryan's own passion which will shortly be published in his new book 'Fragments of Wilderness City' . This will be on sale in the Spring, published by Black Dog.
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