National Music Centre Calgary, King Eddy
Design: Allied Works Architecture. Studio Bell is nearing completion: 160,000 sqft (14,860 sqm) new home for the National Music Centre of Canada is scheduled to open on 1 October 2016.
Concert halls buildings
Concert halls buildings and architects
e-architect select major concert halls projects from around the world. Discover new music venue architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects office updates. Source music hall building news.
The website features a selection of the best new music venue building designs around the world, by respected designers.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
New Lucerne Theater Building, Switzerland
Innovative New Performing Arts Venue in European Cultural Hub
Arup help project stakeholders define a facility that supports exploration and experimentation in the future of dramatic performances with music.
Alice Tully Hall, New York: Lincoln Center Building
Design: Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXFOWLE, architects – the development’s intention is to modernize the concert halls and public spaces and renew the 16-acre urban campus to create a more open and vibrant environment.
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.
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.