Sydney Opera House: Jørn Utzon Australia Building
Le Corbusier’s tapestry Les Dés Sont Jetés (The Dice Are Cast), commissioned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, now hanging in the Sydney Opera House building, NSW, Australia.
Concert halls buildings
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Metropolitan Opera House New York Lobby
The Metropolitan Opera selects Ennead Architects to design the renovation and expansion of its lobby. The Met hopes to make its Lincoln Center building more welcoming by improving the cramped lobby.
Palanga Concert Hall in Lithuania, Vilnius
Design: UAB, architects. The Palanga concert hall’s round white facade not only gives sense of lightness to a relatively big volume, but also highlights a valuable historic building by forming a contrasting background to it.
Public Auditorium in Llinars del Vallès, Barcelona
The Llinars Auditorium building design by Álvaro Siza Vieira Arquitectos is part of a public investment in cultural facilities. It consists of two volumes, one for the auditorium and another for offices and technical area
Snape Maltings Campus Building
Derek Sugden Engineer, the structural engineer and acoustician who worked on the Snape Maltings concert hall and the new opera house at Glyndebourne, has died.
SNFCC Athens Building: Renzo Piano Greece
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center contains the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, both set within the Stavros Niarchos Park
New Concert Hall for London Symphony Orchestra: LSO
Proposals to build a new state-of-the-art Centre for Music for the LSO: Government to provide £5.5m in funding for a full business case for the project while the City of London Corporation has agreed its willingness to make land available for the site.
Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin, Poland
Design: Barozzi Veiga. The Philharmonic Hall, which accommodates a concert hall and a chamber music hall, is a very complex building that occupies the same space as the former music building
Beethoven Festspielhaus in Bonn, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects was shortlisted as one of three offices to refine the design scheme for the Beethoven Festspielhaus. The final winner of the competition will be announced in spring of 2015.
Pipe Organ at Maison Symphonique in Toronto
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra tonight inaugurates the pipe organ at Maison Symphonique. The 6,489-pipe colossus is a design collaboration between Jack Diamond, Principal, Diamond Schmitt Architects and Quebec-based organ manufacturer Casavant Frères.
Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf, am Steinberg
Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp)
The new ballet building will be created on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot “am Steinberg” in Düsseldorf.
The building will provide the Oper’s 50 professional dancers and the ballet school’s 55 students with two ballet rooms with full-size stage dimensions, three smaller practice rooms as well as rest rooms, showers, a physiotherapy room and an apartment for guest artists.
Abu Dhabi Building: Arts Centre
New images of proposed Abu Dhabi building design by Zaha Hadid Architects: a cultural institution for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation on behalf of the Tourism Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi, housing five theatres.
Busan Opera, BOH Korea Design Contest
Design: Peter Ruge Architekten. A thin skin, protecting from the sun and water connects the two buildings, leaving in between a pathway open for the public. This supports Busan’s natural flow from mountain to the ocean, creating a good harmony between urban space and architecture.
The new landmark of Busan’s Opera House reflects the natural and urban energies and connects it to the performing arts spaces of “Madangnoli”, at the Mountain Plaza and the Sunrise Plaza, an urban harmony with a folk performance played by ordinary people.
House of Music Opening, Aalborg
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
After four years of construction, the “House of Music” in Aalborg, Denmark was ceremoniously opened on March 29, 2014 by the Danish Queen Margrethe II.
This cultural centre was designed by the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au as a combined school and concert hall: its open structure promotes the exchange between the audience and artists, and the students and teachers. “The idea behind the building can already be read from the outer shape. The school embraces the concert hall,” explained Wolf D. Prix, design principal and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au.
Winspear Opera House Dallas Arts building
Architect: Foster + Partners – part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.
Responding to the Dallas climate, a generous solar canopy extends from the building, revealing below a fully glazed sixty foot high lobby. Beneath the canopy, a shaded pedestrian plaza creates a major new public space for the city.
City of Arts and Science Valencia Building
The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia design by Santiago Calatrava architect, inaugurated eight years ago, is falling apart and authorities have said they will sue the architect responsible. Chunks of the mosaic façade of the centerpiece opera house fell off in high winds and authorities were forced cancel Christmas performances and to close the building to the public until further notice.
Ptuj Performance Center, Slovenia Building
The Dominican monastery in Ptuj boasts more than 800 years of history, which is, in various degrees of apparentness, expressed in its building structure. The Dominicans came to Ptuj in the early 13th century, when they were given a plot within the city walls, at the very edge of the west corner.