Though not unheard of, the melding of architecture and music is uncommon enough to pique our interest, especially when done on the scale of The Metaphone, by Herault Arnod Architects. The firm ...

The NSA, through means by which the average citizen cannot tread, has been collecting vast amounts of phone metadata that is intended to help locate and track terrorists and related activity. Though ...

The Metaphone consists of an open concert hall with capacity for 500 seats and 800 standing. The massive structure also boasts a bar, restaurant, a high-tech stage, and a facility for outdoor concerts ...

When the first NSA surveillance story broke in June, about the agency’s collection of phone metadata from Verizon, most people likely had never heard the word metadata before. Even some security and ...

Publicis Groupe Benelux has launched an innovative recruitment campaign, centred on The Metaphone – a giant red telephone in Decentraland that rings day and night, waiting for the right talent to pick ...

To create the sound-related and instrumental features of the building, the architects consulted musician and sound designer Louis Dandrel. The majority of the Metaphone building (the technical spaces ...

And like music, it evolves in time, a vector of fluid, ephemeral and constantly shifting harmonies of sound and light. The Metaphone is a living machine, both concert hall and “urban musical ...