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The local architecture office Marvel came up with an ingenious and yet easy to implement idea to allow art and culture to take place in times of the Corona crisis. In cooperation with the statics office McLaren and the theater company Charcoalblue the architects’ office designed an innovative concept that at least partially allows cultural activities to take place. The theater is kept alive as empty shipping containers become stages all over the streets of New York.
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Bid over the city streets Marvels pop-up stages both theater and music productions in the open air. The containers are suspended on a structure between two scaffolding towers 3.6 m above the road. The height allows vehicles and passers-by to be able to move comfortably below the stage when it is not being played on.
Marvel wants to make the mobile stages a reality throughout the city and to revive the streets that have become empty due to the pandemic. There is seating for around 100 people – who are of course at a safe distance from each other. Smaller containers also serve as sales and administration rooms.
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In this way, not only the cultural workers on the one hand and those interested in culture on the other hand get their money’s worth. Empty shipping containers are being revived that otherwise remain unused – just like the space on the streets that was freed up by the pandemic.
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