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Large-scale outdoor event installation featuring orchestra seating facing the U.S. Capitol building with dramatic curved screen overhead and professional stage lighting by FTL DESIGN ENGINEERING STUDIO.
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FTL DESIGN ENGINEERING STUDIO

Architecture FirmEst. 1978

The history of building is a slow evolution from mass to membrane, from heavy stone structures to luminous, lightweight, flexible and environmentally responsible structures. The investigation of these new light and flexible technologies is at the core of FTL.We explore lightness as a visual, physical and sustainable approach, using a minimum of materials to impact our planet, using a physical lightness of form and its visual effect of light on structure. We seek to build responsive structures that contain spaces which inspire, a place where building, nature and people can meet.

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Projects

  1. Pier 6 Performance Pavilion

    1981

    Exhibition-Design · Baltimore, MD

    2,000 seat covered permanent pavilion for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

  2. DKNY Headquarters

    1989

    Workplace · West 40th Street, New York

    Twelve-story gut rehabilitation; received AIA Award

  3. Carlos Moseley Pavilion

    1992

    Exhibition-Design · New York

    Metropolitan Opera and NY Philharmonic; received NYC Bard Award

  4. 1996 Atlanta Olympics Projects

    1995

    Exhibition-Design · Atlanta, GA

    AT&T Pavilion, Look of the Games, Centennial Park urban planning, Athlete's Village Icon

  5. Rosa Parks Transit Center

    2012

    Workplace · Detroit, MI

    Intermodal transit hub connecting to the People Mover

  6. SkySong at ASU Campus

    2008

    Workplace · Scottsdale, AZ

    Shaded plaza designed with Pei Cobb Freed Architects

  7. Empire City Casino Porte-Cochere

    2014

    Hospitality · Yonkers, NY

    ETFE foil pillow porte-cochere with steel grid shell structure

  8. NYC Ferry Terminal Canopies

    2017

    Workplace · New York

    24 tensile structure canopies across five boroughs

Awards & press

  • AIA Award

    American Institute of Architects · 1989 · DKNY Headquarters

  • NYC Bard Award

    1992 · Carlos Moseley Pavilion

Selected work

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