Beethoven Festspielhaus Bonn, Germany
Beethoven Festspielhaus
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The birthplace of Beethoven, Bonn stages a festival every summer to celebrate the composer.
In collaboration with Valentiny Architects of Luxembourg, AMPC and SSD’s design incorporated cascading tiers of audience flowing down to the stage – the orchestra is at the heart of the auditorium and connected to its audience on all sides.
The room is exceptionally flexible: the ceiling moves to reduce the room volume for an intimate chamber music acoustic when only the lower 800 seats of 1500 are used. The ceiling also integrates loudspeaker and lighting systems while acoustic curtains can control the sound for amplified and speech events. Acoustically, the volume above the ceiling acts like a reverberation chamber to enhance resonance and the lower walls are carefully tilted to provide immersive sound reflections.
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New Holland Island Saint Petersburg, Russia
New Holland Island
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© Rendering: Kengo Kuma & Associates & Mir rendering, Norway Centre des Congres Angers, France
Centre des Congres
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Bristol Beacon / Colston Hall Bristol, UK
Bristol Beacon / Colston Hall
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Massey Hall Toronto, ON, Canada
Massey Hall
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The theatre, a reworked stable block in a country estate, is beautiful, contextual, environmentally and acoustically brilliant and community minded
“The theatre’s acoustics have been designed to support young voices particularly. Working closely with Bob Essert, founding director of theatre acoustic specialist Sound Space Vision, Witherford Watson Mann applied a number of techniques to the space.” Read the article and watch the video here:
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Nevill Holt Opera 2019 RIBA Judges’ Citation
Nevill Holt Opera by Witherford Watson Mann Architects Client Nevill Holt Opera Awards RIBA East Midlands Award 2019, RIBA East Midlands Conservation Award 2019, RIBA East Midlands Building of the Year 2019, RIBA National Award 2019 and Shortlisted for the 2019 Stirling Prize Nevill Holt Opera Building is, at first interaction, a non-building, wholly hidden within the … Continued
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Behind the Curtain – Xiqu Centre
“Vocal intelligibility is therefore important, and amplification is sometimes used. Revery Architecture engaged London-based Sound Space Vision to design a theatre for both loud percussion and the softer voices of performers. The walls of the theatre are clad with concave wood panels of varying radii to distribute sounds of different frequencies. Parts of the walls are … Continued
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Pitch Perfect
It is the desire of Massey Hall’s parent corporation to preserve the building’s acoustic heritage. And that bold undertaking goes to Bob Essert, cofounder of Sound Space Vision, who is designing the hall’s acoustics in this context. Read the rest of the article here.