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David Rockwell displays the seven deadly sins in shop windows
American architect David Rockwell has designed the sets for an outdoor theatre series in New York composed of short plays based on the seven deadly sins and performed in empty shop windows.
Called Seven Deadly Sins, the seven 10-minute-long plays are each by a different playwright. All but one of the plays takes place in a series of empty shopfront windows in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
Rockwell's seven sets represent the seven deadly sins
"As an architect and New Yorker, the pandemic has made it clear that the city without people feels like an empty theater," Rockwell told Dezeen.
"A production such as The Seven Deadly Sins that takes place right on the street creates that kind of interactive frisson that makes New York one of the greatest cities in the world," he added.
"It celebrates that spirit of gathering outside and transforms the streets into a playhouse."
The play entitled Envy takes place in a shipping container
Envy is the only production performed in a shipping container, while the rest of the plays take place in shopfronts close together between West 13th Street and Gansevoort Street. Rockwell did not design the set for Greed.
Designed in individual distinctive colours, each play's set features a bright graphic sign spelling out the word of the sin it represents.
The seven deadly sins, also known as cardinal sins, refer to seven universal sins that are traditionally considered to be immoral in Christian teaching. They are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth – the names of each of the plays.
Audiences begin the experience at a set representing the concept of purgatory
Audiences begin their experience at a loading dock near the Whitney Museum which acts as Purgatory, a biblical concept for the place that sinners go to when awaiting their fate after death. Neon lights and a red Mylar curtain that doubles as a ticket window decorate the space.
The sets and storylines of each short play vary dramatically. Lust presents its audience with a vivid neon purple scene with a pole placed in the middle of the set, on which a pole dancer performs a monologue.
Sloth, meaning laziness, includes a contrastingly mundane living room and reveals a young couple arguing while the husband idly plays video games. Gluttony takes place in a reimagined Garden of Eden.
"The experience is highly choreographed," explained Rockwell. "Audiences move from storefront to storefront in groups, seeing all seven plays in an hour and 45 minutes."
Lust presents the set for a pole dancer
Pride delves into the story of a trans blogger who is wrestling with a large corporation having begun to craft the content he publishes, leading to his readers feeling betrayed by him.
The play takes place against a backdrop of trans flags, a rainbow curtain made of Mylar and Pride-themed bunting.
"Each play has its own unique story to tell," said Rockwell.
"We developed a concept for each show then explored the design in renderings before laying out ground plans that accounted for the various audience sightlines, one of our main challenges."
Sloth features an ordinary-looking living room
The architect walked through various New York neighbourhoods with Seven Deadly Sins director Moisés Kaufman before settling on the Meatpacking District.
New York City Department of Transportation worked with the pair to make the productions possible.
Pride features brightly-lit Pride bunting
Rockwell reflected on what he hopes audiences will take away from the plays, which are showing in Manhattan until 25 July.
"The playwrights have tackled the subject matter in incredibly compelling and divergent ways, so I expect audiences will be hugely entertained and provoked, in the best possible sense, by the work," he said.
"Sin is a topic about which everyone can relate, and this is a very full theatrical meal with something for everyone."
"On a deeper level, I hope that this gives audiences a chance to flex our collective empathy muscles, which may have atrophied a bit during a year of isolation," concluded the architect.
The plays take place in Manhattan shop front windows
David Rockwell is an American architect and designer who founded the Rockwell Group in 1984. He recently designed the set for this year's Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.
The photography is courtesy of David Rockwell.
Seven Deadly Sins is on show in the Meatpacking District in New York until 25 July 2021. SeeDezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
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David Rockwell's "intimate and grand" Oscars set recalls glamour of early ceremonies
Architect David Rockwell designed the sets for last night's Oscars ceremony within LA's art deco Union Station to reflect the feeling of past Academy Awards nights.
Rockwell transformed Union Station's main ticket hall into the venue for the 91st Academy Awards main ceremony, which was delayed by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Union Station's ticket hall served as the main auditorium
The architect, who also created the sets for the Oscars' 81st and 82nd events, based his design on the idea of creating an intimate supper club for nominees and their guests.
Referencing old Hollywood glamour, the set was informed by early Oscars ceremonies including the first event which was a private dinner held at Los Angeles' Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.
"The Oscars ceremony is always intimate and grand at the same time, more so this year with Union Station's soaring and historic details," said Rockwell.
Seating booths faced the stage
Custom tables and chairs were installed in the ticket hall to create a curved multi-layered seating area facing a circular wooden thrust stage.
The spaced-out seating was designed so that attendees could remain in small groups in order to minimise unnecessary mixing in line with social distancing measures. Many presenters also spoke from their respective tables.
On the lower tiers, intimate wooden banquettes and individual chairs were lined with plush blue velvet and finished with elegant silver rails. Each table featured a small lamp decorated with gold Oscars statuettes.
The ticket hall's grand ceiling. Photo is by Panic Studio LA
Oversized draped curtains matching the seating's upholstery defined the stage's backdrop, which was flanked by a pair of geometric screens that showed the event.
Around the space, a scattering of similar screens served as digital picture frames displaying retro black and white photographs from past Oscars nights, which switched to live footage of the stage during the ceremony.
"We conceived a room within a room that made circulation intuitive, enveloped the audience in an intimate embrace and created a space in which the action happens everywhere, not just on stage," explained Rockwell.
Alongside the main venue, Union Station's north patio was turned into an outdoor seating area with teak, multi-layered decking.
Lounge areas featuring light green and blue Roche Bobois outdoor furniture upholstered in Missoni fabric were laid out underneath trees laden with lanterns and clusters of flowers.
Open to attendees throughout the ceremony, monitors were placed at regular intervals across the patio in order to live stream the events happening inside.
The north patio
David Rockwell is an American architect and designer who founded architecture practice The Rockwell Group in 1984.
The firm recently unveiled a kit of parts designed to turn New York City's streets into socially distanced outdoor restaurants, as well as an elevated wooden walkway that connects various amenities within a residents-only leisure club in Manhattan.
Flowers and lanterns decorated the space
Other set design projects include an escapist TV set featuring real sand, designed for live interviews by Swedish studio ASKA, and a virtual Midsummer Night's Dream forest for a play called Dream, created by Marshmallow Laser Feast for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
Photography is by Spencer Lowell unless stated.
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