Home Theater in Montauk New York by Pentagram Architects
Pentagram Architects partner James Biber has designed this home theater in Montauk New York, taking inspiration from Radio City Music Hall and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The home theater, which takes up 350 square feet in a 1,500-square-foot basement, had to have soundproofing and dimmable lights, and the client wanted seating on the floor.
The theater has a series of round arches, which house 600 five-watt dimmer-controlled light bulbs that provide a soft ambient light for when you need to find that elusive remote control. And as in the Music Hall, the lights are positioned to glow away from the viewers – because we all hate to have lights in our eyes when watching the big screen.
When James Biber, an architect and partner at Pentagram, the international design firm, was asked to design a home theater in a house in Montauk, N.Y., his first thought was anything but typical home lighting. “Because the theater is in the basement, it shouldn’t imitate an ordinary, windowed room in the house, and so I looked for inspiration elsewhere,” he said. That elsewhere turned out to be Radio City Music Hall, where the lighting is hidden in the arches facing the stage.
Link Via [The New York Times]
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