Construction reasons. The Granary Concert Hall project is located in Jining City, Shandong Province, Sushui Dengxiangu art town, close to Dengxiangu Art Granary. The granary is a rectangular courtyard surrounded by several red tile stone houses, the previous function is used to preserve grain. Grain silo function after the abandonment of the cultural industry upgraded to become such as Art Granary. After nearly a decade of careful grinding, art granary has developed into a national village revitalization demonstration base. With the implementation and promotion of the national rural revitalization strategy, the internal space of the original granary transformation can no longer meet the increasing functional needs, so it is ready to build a new multi-functional building in the west side of the granary combined with the village, to meet the large-span space of 300-400 people.
After early research and discussion with the owners, according to the artistic characteristics of the granary, we finally decided to build a building full of human idealism in the mountains – granary concert hall. Since the project land is located between the art barn and the village, at the intersection of several main roads, the north-west side road connects the village, and the south-east side is adjacent to the public space of the granary art district, the geographical location determines that the concert hall will be the link between the art granary and the village. We hope that the concert hall will be open, inclusive, and diverse and that when completed, it will not only complement the functional needs of the art barn but also become a public open space for villagers to organize various activities. So how do we explain the connection between concert halls and art barns? How to respond to the harmonious relationship between building mass and the natural environment? What building materials are selected? With these questions, we design in the countryside, draw nutrients from the countryside, and try to find answers.
The Answers. Round granary: the overall and powerful building mass. The idea of the concert hall stems from the original function of the art barn: the granary. In combination with the land-use situation, the site is responded to with a circular building mass. The concert hall is like a big paddy pile, like growing out of the ground, full and full of shape, just filled the whole low-lying site; The change of architectural reality is unified under the big eaves of continuous turning, from any angle around can feel the sense of order and strength of the concert hall; Windows large and small on a pure stone façade are like a frame of view, which forms a beating wall of notes that solidify music in the building.
Emphasize the internal and external integration of architectural functions, both public activity space and communication space, convenient for the use of local residents. Geographical location and functional requirements have given the concert hall space layout of the cohesion, functional services of the outward radiation characteristics. In the architectural function layout, we have created a stage-centric circular building space, creating two performance spaces in indoor and outdoor, which can meet the needs of large indoor performance and meeting activities, while the large eaves of the outdoor continuous ups and downs combine the gray space, providing the villagers with summer cool and children playing space.
Emphasize the locality of the building, reflecting the building materials and the real state of the village. In the village to build a new house, we do not want her to be from abroad but hope that she can be a local building. So we emphasize the nature of the building, reflecting the real state of the village at present: the structure of the village to choose the common steel structure to present a large span of special space, building materials to choose local easy-to-use materials, the local have much stone, the village for decades of old houses are built of stone, so we use stone, green tile these very easy to find in the surrounding village building materials as a new building material, through the village stonemason original masonry, so that the new building presents a kind of local state: although not perfect. But relaxed enough to have an affinity.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
