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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's Powell Hall / Snøhetta

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Beginning in 2019, Snøhetta, in collaboration with Christener Architects, Schuler Shook, BSI Constructors, and Kirkegaard, led the expansion and modernization of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's historic performance space, Powell Hall. To ring in the hall's centennial in 2025, the organization embarked on an ambitious 64,000-square-foot expansion with Snøhetta as design architect and landscape architect. The project will allow the concert hall to be more fully accessible and open to the community, creating a facility that supports and nurtures the creative process from idea to performance.

Concert Hall in Karlovy Vary / Petr Hájek Architekti

Valeria Silva — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The historic building of the Imperial Spa, completed in 1895, was remarkable in its time for both its architecture and spa technologies. In the second half of the 19th century, groundbreaking inventions were created. Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, Nikola Tesla developed the induction motor, Alexander Bell built the telephone, Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler introduced the first internal combustion engine car, and Henri Giffard designed a steerable airship. During the same era, Jules Verne wrote the novel From the Earth to the Moon, and Claude Monet painted the iconic Impression, Sunrise.

Kuppel Basel Concert Venue / Vécsey Schmidt Architekt:innen

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

From provisional tent to permanent concert club: the new Kuppel Basel is an impressive venue for the music scene. Basel-based Vécsey Schmidt Architekt:innen built a permanent concert venue for the city's pop music scene – right in the middle of an idyllic park on the edge of the city center. The shape of the Kuppel Basel refers to a temporary dome tent from 1988 that stood on the same location, and which was known far and wide for the concerts that were held there. The new, permanent institution will help to promote upcoming bands and provide a venue for concerts and parties. An unconventional piece of architecture, that is focussed entirely on its interior and at the same time – together with a neighboring extension building – solves urban planning questions. Club scene concerts are often held in dark basements or abandoned industrial estates, where they don't bother anybody. Not so in Basel: here pop culture has now acquired a jewel, located right in the middle of a park between the zoo and the city center. Any passer-by who does not know about the function of the solitary octagonal building with its unusual vaulted structure might mistake it for some sort of pavilion – if it weren't so hermetically sealed. Thanks to sophisticated soundproofing measures, the beats inside can be cranked up, while on the outside people going for a stroll or neighbors sleeping with open windows remain undisturbed.

The Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall and Choir Buildings / Uygur Architects

Hana Abdel — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Ankara has a new landmark with an international appeal; The Presidential Symphony Concert Hall building with its focus on culture aims to prove an asset to both the local and global music scene while being the instigator of interaction and exchange among citizens.

Dengxiangu Art Granary Concert Hall / VDA

Yu Xin Li — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Construction reasons. The Granary Concert Hall project is located in Jining City, Shandong Province, Sushui Dengxiangu art town, close to Dengxiangu Art Granary. The granary is a rectangular courtyard surrounded by several red tile stone houses, the previous function is used to preserve grain. Grain silo function after the abandonment of the cultural industry upgraded to become such as Art Granary. After nearly a decade of careful grinding, art granary has developed into a national village revitalization demonstration base. With the implementation and promotion of the national rural revitalization strategy, the internal space of the original granary transformation can no longer meet the increasing functional needs, so it is ready to build a new multi-functional building in the west side of the granary combined with the village, to meet the large-span space of 300-400 people.

Villa Marteau Concert Hall / peter haimerl.architektur

Paula Pintos — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000

An underground concert and practice hall has been added to the historic villa of the Haus Marteau music centre in Lichtenberg, Upper Franconia. The shape of the hall was inspired by the area’s former mining tradition. Alexander von Humboldt, the famous German naturalist and explorer, even worked here as a master miner before he later became famous for his global expeditions. The room is shaped by 33 large granite “splinters” which direct the sound and ensure perfect acoustics.

Alloway Hall Expansion & Renewal / Stantec Architecture

Alexandria Bramley — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Needing to expand space and offer greater flexibility for world-class traveling exhibits, The Manitoba Museum elected to expand and renew its temporary exhibition space, Alloway Hall. The Manitoba Museum, located at Main Street and Rupert Avenue in Winnipeg, opened in 1970 as a component of the Manitoba Centennial Centre (MCC). Its mandate is to collect, research, and share Manitoba’s rich history, culture, and varied geography.

Conservatory for Music & Ballet / OFIS Architects

Valeria Silva — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Ljubljana's Conservatory of Music and Ballet is one of the oldest music schools in Slovenia, dating back to 1919. Located in the immediate proximity of many historical buildings and other important monuments, the overall renovation aimed to improve the existing program and some technical features of the school's facilities, while preserving the original volume and structure.

Can Lliro Coffee-Concert Refurbishment / Aulets Arquitectes + Carles Oliver

Clara Ott — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Program and context
In Manacor, on the east side of Mallorca island, there is a great effervescence of music groups, songwriters and emerging artists who did not have a space to play. The Lliro family wanted to respond to this social need, and to transform the coffee they have run for more than 30 years, a local institution, into a concert hall.

Concert Hall Blaibach / peter haimerl.architektur

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000

The concert hall represents the heart of the urban development to revitalize the new centre of Blaibach. It is located next to the new community centre and complements the space of a new village square that was realized with funds of the state urban development support. The concert hall is a solitaire of concrete with an inclination above the slope in the village centre following the topography and linking with its granite facade to the stone carver tradition of Bailbach. The monolithic tilted building opens itself to the visitors at the new village square and guides them by a staircase to the foyer below the surface. The foyer provides not only the functional areas like wardrobe, sanitary rooms and bar, but also leads the visitor excitingly around the auditorium into the inner concert hall.

Nevill Holt Opera Theatre / Witherford Watson Mann Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000

The long ironstone building is quite grand for a stable; for a theatre, on the other hand, it is compact and intimate. Designing a festival theatre required a distilled response, focused on the unity of stage and auditorium: there was no scope for a fly-tower, nor for a foyer with a grand stair. Every addition or adjustment within the auditorium had to be judged on its merits, to work in relation to the ironstone walls, and the doors and windows that pepper them.

Uppsala Concert & Congress Hall / Henning Larsen

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Uppsala Concert and Congress Hall unite the historic city center with the new city district of Vaksala. Standing out as a distinctive split crystal, the building draws in the city and invites everyone inside.

Andermatt Concert Hall / Studio Seilern Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

BESIX and the Andermatt Swiss Alps development is transforming the traditional Swiss Alpine village of Andermatt into one of the world’s finest year-round destinations; boasting some of the best alpine and off-piste skiing facilities in Europe and fast becoming one of Switzerland’s largest resorts. Andermatt is a mountain village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. At an altitude of 1437 meters above sea level, Andermatt is located at the centre of the Saint-Gotthard Massif and the historical centre cross of north-south and east-west traverses of Switzerland. In the early 2000s, after a period of decline, Andermatt started growing again as a valid alternative to the famous ski resort destinations such as St Moritz and Gstaad. This new beginning brought in the area the need for new facilities to remark its role of new attraction pole in Swiss tourism.

Maraya / Giò Forma Studio Associato S.r.l

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Mada'in Salih, not far from al-Ula (22 km), was known as al-Hijr, or Hegra, by the Nabataean people who carved its magnificent tombs into the golden Quweira sandstone outcrops.

AD Classics: Radio City Music Hall / Edward Durell Stone & Donald Deskey

Luke Fiederer — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on July 29, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Upon opening its doors for the first time on a rainy winter’s night in 1932, the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan was proclaimed so extraordinarily beautiful as to need no performers at all. The first built component of the massive Rockefeller Center, the Music Hall has been the world’s largest indoor theater for over eighty years. With its elegant Art Deco interiors and complex stage machinery, the theater defied tradition to set a new standard for modern entertainment venues that remains to this day.

Palace for Mexican Music / Alejandro Medina Arquitectura + Reyes Ríos + Larraín arquitectos + Muñoz arquitectos + Quesnel arquitectos

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:00:00 +0000

The architectural design for the palace for Mexican music can be defined as a modern building sensible to its physical context of great historical value. Due not only because its location within the city but mainly because the nature of its program is public, it was conceived with the potential to revitalize and regenerate the part of the historical downtown where it is located.

Royal Arena / 3XN + HKS

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:00:00 +0000

One of the most anticipated cultural venues in Copenhagen, the 35,000 m2 Royal Arena, opened with four sold out concerts by Metallica. Specially designed for concerts and international level sporting events, this new venue combines two key ambitions: to create an attractive and highly flexible multi-purpose arena that can attract spectators locally as well as internationally, while ensuring that the building’s presence will be a catalyzer for growth for the entire district as well as Copenhagen. With a podium that offers different public areas for social meetings and daily activities with a warm timber façade allowing spectators to look out and the curious to look in, the arena is designed to catalyse urban life, thereby adding value and fitting into the surrounding neighbourhood.

Anneliese Brost Music Forum / Bez+Kock Architekten

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 03:00:00 +0000

The concert hall is an ensemble, created by two new concert halls which surround an existing church building and transform it into a foyer, together forming the Anneliese Brost Musicforum. Both the existing and the new facades consist of the same facing brick. The facade concept calls for the new brick to be refined with white plaster, enriching the dialog between the two elements.

La Seine Musicale / Shigeru Ban Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:00:00 +0000

The site was not selected by chance.

William M. Lowman Concert Hall / Sander Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000

The design for the William M. Lowman Concert Hall grew from the desire of the client to create a concert hall worthy of the talents of the students at the school, Idyllwild Arts—one of the country’s top three High Schools for the Arts. The student body draws from dozens of countries and students go on to every major orchestra, school and program in the world. Sander Architects proposed a site at the heart of campus to repurpose an unsightly parking lot, thereby creating a central campus quad and gathering space for the school community.

Adagio Valley for Department of Music at University of Seoul / Wooridongin Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:00:00 +0000

The project is located at the edge of the campus where the Baebong Mountain starts in Seoul, Korea. The project is enclosed by small pond and outdoor stage, in the front, and Baebong Mountain, in the back, which make the location a great spot to overlook the whole campus of University of Seoul. Before the project, the location was used for recycling disposal plant. The project was initiated with the mindset of minimizing the damage to the mountain and green space of the city so that the planning was limited within the boundary of existing facility.

Rokkatei Makomanai Hall / Furuichi and Associates

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 29 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000

This architecture possesses two functions: a confectionary shop and a concert hall. Both exterior and interior can change their atmosphere according to the two different functions as well as acoustics. In other words, this architecture has a “double face”. Also the client wanted use wood for the interior design to enhance the image of the shop, since Hokkaido is a leading forestry area.

AD Classics: House of Culture / Alvar Aalto

Luke Fiederer — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 05:00:00 +0000

Originally built as the headquarters for the Finnish Communist Party, the House of Culture (Kultuuritalo in Finnish) has since established itself as one of Helsinki’s most popular concert venues.[1] Comprising a rectilinear copper office block, a curved brick auditorium, and a long canopy that binds them together, the House of Culture represents the pinnacle of Alvar Aalto’s work with red brick architecture in the 1950s.

Palanga Concert Hall / Uostamiescio projektas

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:00:00 +0000

New concert hall erected in the autumn of 2015 at the most popular resort town of Lithuania- Palanga.