{"id":1494,"date":"2017-01-10T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:28:25","slug":"oma-reveals-cancelled-design-ministry-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/oma-reveals-cancelled-design-ministry-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"OMA reveals cancelled design for Ministry Of Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Architecture firm OMA <\/strong><\/em>has revealed its previously unseen design for a shapeshifting new venue for London nightclub Ministry Of Sound. According to Rem Koolhaas\u2019 firm, it won a competition to design a new home for the world-famous\u00a0nightclub back in 2015, but the project was unexpectedly scrapped\u00a0shortly after.<\/p>\n

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In a post on his Facebook page, OMA<\/a> partner Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli wrote: \u201cApparently we won the competition (we were told so) but then mysteriously and surprisingly the project was cancelled.\u201d<\/p>\n

OMA was invited by Ministry of Sound<\/a> to enter the competition, which called for a new building next to the club\u2019s historic location in Elephant and Castle, south London. Based on research from the firm\u2019s research studio AMO, the architects proposed a building that changes its shape from night to day,\u00a0thanks to walls that mechanically lift up and down.<\/p>\n

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This would allow the nightclub to easily change from open to closed, and to offer spaces that respond to different climate conditions. For instance, the indoor atrium would change to create a VIP roof terrace. The design\u00a0also addressed the fact \u2013 claimed by OMA\u00a0\u2013 that nightclubs have lost their relevance, now that electronic devices are able to offer the same kind of immersive experience. The aim was to include as\u00a0diverse a variety of spatial experiences as possible, to\u00a0exaggerate the change from day to night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe result of our work was a combination of a dynamic design \u2013 an experiment on a double identity \u2013 and of applied research into the status of nightlife and its spatial implications,\u201d said\u00a0Pestellini Laparelli.\u00a0Ministry of Sound was first established in 1991 in a converted office building. As\u00a0\u201cthe first regulated 24-hour safe haven for partygoers to dance throughout the night\u201d, it offered an alternative to the illegal warehouse rave scene.<\/p>\n

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The club\u00a0went on to become a global brand, but over the years it\u00a0has had several\u00a0clashes with the\u00a0local council over the redevelopment of its\u00a0surrounding area, and has frequently claimed it was\u00a0being pushed out.\u00a0The company has not yet responded why its\u00a0competition for a new building was cancelled.<\/p>\n

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But it is the latest in\u00a0a series\u00a0of problems for London\u2019s nightlife scene, which has seen many famous clubs shut down over the last decade because of\u00a0licensing issues. Clerkenwell club Fabric almost closed down at the end of last year too, after two teenagers who took drugs at the venue tragically died, but the club\u00a0reopened this week with\u00a0stricter\u00a0security.<\/p>\n

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OMA and Rem Koolhaas are one\u00a0of the most newsworthy players in the design industry. This isn\u2019t the first time the Rotterdam-based firm\u00a0has designed a nightclub \u2013 the firm previously created\u00a0a 1990s-style club in Paris to host a one-off event for fashion brand Miu Miu.<\/p>\n

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Architecture firm OMA has revealed its previously unseen design for a shapeshifting new venue for London nightclub Ministry Of Sound. According to Rem Koolhaas\u2019 firm, it won a competition to design a new home for the world-famous\u00a0nightclub back in 2015, but the project was unexpectedly scrapped\u00a0shortly after. \u00a0 SEE ALSO:\u00a07 OUTSTANDING MIDCENTURY MODERN LIVING ROOMS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[156,24,257,99,256],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","tag-architecture","tag-design","tag-ministry-of-sound","tag-modern","tag-oma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}