Paper Symphony

[ad_1] Photography: Ernests Sveisbergs & Kaspars Balamovskis; courtesy the architect . The scenography for the Grand Music Awards 2013 held at the Latvian National Opera House puts the spotlight on origami for heightened aesthetics… Designed by architect Didzis Jaunzems, 12,000 elegantly folded black papers with varying apertures allow precise amounts of light to pass through. Aiding the light and video projections to filter through is the permeable white fabric onto which these papers are glued. . . This fabric is then attached to triangular metal frames suspended from ceiling trusses; while different sizes of metal sticks inserted into the folded […]