Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau via boston.com
Pandora design awarded
Our office interior project for Pandora Media with ABAstudio continues to earn recognition from the architecture community, recently winning an Award of Merit from AIA New York State to add to its prior accolades. We are glad to have been able to contribute to the project and grateful for the recognition!
acoustics puzzler….
what is 70 dB on the outside but totally silent inside?
Hudson views
Architectural Digest recently featured one of our residential projects, a home overlooking the Hudson River in upstate New York. Designed by architecture & design firm BWArchitects for a private client, the house occupies property farmed by architect Basil Walters’ own grandparents for over 50 years, which he recounts visiting as a young man. The design is informed both by the landscape and by the architect’s experiences there, and includes a dedicated listening room with carefully controlled acoustics.
The sound heard round and round the world
It doesn’t get much louder than an erupting volcano: the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 registered a recorded sound pressure level of 172 decibels at a distance of 100 miles, not so much loud as completely debilitating. Nautilus Magazine examines the unique acoustics of the Krakatoa eruption, which spawned the most distantly audible sound in recorded history. Not only was the eruption audible over 3,000 miles away, the resulting pressure pulse was detectable for days as it circled and recircled the globe.
To get a sense of what that sort of pressure disturbance really means, try this recent video of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea:
Pandora’s media
We recently completed a fun and “musical” office interior for Pandora Media in Midtown Manhattan in conjunction with ABA Studio. The project was recently featured on both ArchDaily and Architizer, as their Project of the Day. Congratulations to the project team and we wish Pandora Media sweet sounds in their new space!
