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Petra Blaisse
Petra Blaisse is a Dutch designer.In 1987 she started her career as a freelance designer for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam...
in 1991. Unique in its genre, the firm combine expertise in various fields including landscape architecture
Landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
, textile design
Textile design
Textile design is the process of creating designs and structures for knitted, woven, non-woven or embellishments of fabrics.Textile designing involves producing patterns for cloth used in clothing, household textiles and decorative textiles such as carpets. The field encompasses the actual pattern...
and interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
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Petra Blaisse
Petra Blaisse
Petra Blaisse is a Dutch designer.In 1987 she started her career as a freelance designer for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam...
worked in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...
and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
OMA , is a Rotterdam based architecture firm of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.The firm was founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.-History:...
on numerous projects including Seattle Central Library
Seattle Central Library
The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004...
(Seattle, 2004), Casa da Música
Casa da Música
Casa da Música is a major concert hall space in Porto, Portugal which houses the cultural institution of the same name with its three orchestras Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orquestra Barroca and Remix Ensemble...
(Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
, 2001–2005), CCTV HQ
CCTV Headquarters
The CCTV Headquarters is a , 44-storey skyscraper in the Beijing Central Business District and serves as headquarters for China Central Television . Groundbreaking took place on 1 June 2004 and the building's facade was completed in 1 January 2008...
(Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, 2004–2009).The firm also collaborated with architectural firm SANAA for the glass pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its present location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B....
(Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...
, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, 2006).
Selected projects
- Swarovski Office Building in Männedorf, 2009 (Landscape design)
- Muziekgebouw , Enschede, NL, 2008 (Stage curtain for the main auditorium)
- ‘Swamp Garden’, Almere, NL, 2007 (Execution of subterranean garden between parking lots)
- Plussenburgh Housing Complex, Rotterdam, NL, 2006 (Garden design, interior advisory, carpet design)
- Mercedes-Benz MuseumMercedes-Benz MuseumThe Mercedes-Benz Museum is an automotive museum housed in Stuttgart, Germany. Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes-Benz brand and the international headquarters of Daimler AG. The current building, which stands directly outside the main gate of the Daimler factory in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, was...
, Stuttgart, Germany, 2006 (Darkening, sun and view filtering curtains, brush wall) - Seoul National University Museum of Art, South Korea, 2005 (Garden and curtains for lecture hall)
- Toledo Pavilion of Glass, USA, 2005 (Space deifning, acoustic and darkening curtains, sun & UV screening voiles)
- Casa da MúsicaCasa da MúsicaCasa da Música is a major concert hall space in Porto, Portugal which houses the cultural institution of the same name with its three orchestras Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orquestra Barroca and Remix Ensemble...
, Porto, Portugal, 2005 (Acoustic, blackout and view filtering curtains, sun-screens; Advisory for interior and exterior finishes) - Hackney Empire Theatre, London, UK, 2005 (Stage curtain, blackout, space-dei ning and acoustic curtains)
- Seattle Central LibrarySeattle Central LibraryThe Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story glass and steel building in downtown Seattle, Washington was opened to the public on Sunday, May 23, 2004...
, USA, 2004 (Landscape design for entrance plaza’s, street borders and transitional; Advisory on interior materials & finishes) - Dutch Embassy, Berlin, Germany, 2004 (Darkening curtains, Advisory on interior finishes, public parkand glare control curtains)
- Prada Store Los Angeles , USA, 2004 (textile VIP-dressing room, advisory on interior finishes)
- The Mick Jagger CentreThe Mick Jagger CentreThe Mick Jagger Centre is performing arts venue in Dartford, England. It is on the site of Dartford Grammar School; however, it is also open to the local community. The Centre is named after the Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, who was a pupil at the school...
, Dartford (London), UK, 2000 (Two double curtain walls for acoustic, lighting and atmospheric program in concert hall, upholstery auditorium chairs) - Downsview Park Competition, Toronto, Canada (Winner first prize), 2000
- State Penitentiary, Nieuwegein, NL, 1999 (Six prison gardens and parking area)
- Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL, 1993 (Spiralling sound curtain wall with poured-in-place tracks in the concrete ceiling, furniture advisory. Design and execurion of sloping garden with 6500 bulbs and 7 pear trees)