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Armchair or Being There

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Robert Kronenburg

I’m just recovering from an extended period of slouching around watching TV and streams via BBC’s extended broadcast of the Glastonbury Festival. It was for the most part an easy listening experience, sitting there with a drink (and toilets) close … Continue reading →

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Shows, People and Architecture in Las Vegas

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Robert Kronenburg

A couple of years ago when I was working on my book Live Architecture, I spent a week in Las Vegas looking at new performance buildings designed by the Canadian company Scéno Plus. Vegas (why is the ‘Las’ left off … Continue reading →

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Staging the Spectacular – music and festival scenography at the V&A

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Robert Kronenburg

‘Good design happens when you are happy’ – with this simple but uplifting message Es Devlin, designer of the Olympic Closing Ceremony and creative director for numerous high profile pop music artists such as Kanye West and the Pet Shop … Continue reading →

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Three gigs in six days (episode 1: The Kazimier)

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Robert Kronenburg

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to experience three great gigs a few days apart, each in a completely different type of venue, in a very different type of architecture. The venue size increased as the days passed … Continue reading →

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How many planets? Sustainability and flexible design

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Robert Kronenburg

Over the past few months I have been updating some writing on mobile and flexible architecture that I first prepared nearly twenty years ago, and as you might expect, much has changed in the intervening period. One of the things … Continue reading →

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A Great Adventure – starting a new project

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Robert Kronenburg

Everyone remembers going to their first big gig. For me that memory is from 1973 when I saw Led Zeppelin at the Liverpool Empire, a £1 ticket earned by queuing up most of the night to be one of the … Continue reading →

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What can temporary architecture do? The BMW Guggenheim LAB symposium

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Robert Kronenburg

What can temporary architecture do? What can it achieve in comparison with static architecture? These were two of the key questions explored in a brief ‘temporary’ symposium held at the Atelier Bow Wow designed pavilion on its penultimate day in … Continue reading →

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it will be just like starting over…

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Robert Kronenburg

A little under twenty years ago I sent my first book on portable architecture to the publisher. Yes there were computers, and I did send it on disk (floppy ones which were actually protected in hard plastic covers) but all … Continue reading →

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