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Silence drives music center鈥檚 design
Architect Brad Cloepfil sees the national music center in Calgary, Alberta, as an ensemble piece: The center鈥檚 collections and exhibitions will provide the notes and the building will provide the rest. In a musical sense, the term 鈥渞est鈥� refers to a pause, a break between notes. Cloepfil, a principal with Allied Works Architecture in Portland, is bringing the calm of the Alberta prairie to h[...]
Portland firm’s music center plan pitch perfect
Portland-based Allied Works Architecture beat out four major international firms to design Canada’s national music center in Calgary, Alberta. The 80,000-square-foot building will hold a research center, a museum, an […]
BREAKING NEWS: Allied Works wins Calgary music center project
Architect Brad Cloepfil has a new project to add to the portfolio of his firm Allied Works Architecture: a music center in Calgary, Alberta. The Portland architect’s firm beat out […]
Brad Cloepfil + Calgary = sweet music?
Portland architect Brad Cloepfil's hoping to strike the right note with his design for a new music center in Calgary.
Brad Cloepfil + Calgary = sweet music?
Portland architect Brad Cloepfil's hoping to strike the right note with his design for a new music center in Calgary.
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