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From the New York Times

There is a global boom in design and con­struc­tion of artis­tic spaces. Some peo­ple includ­ing myself are cyn­i­cal about this, liken­ing it to the cur­rent boom in sta­dium con­struc­tion here in the states: a way for cities to bring in more tourist dol­lars. How­ever, there is no deny­ing the archi­tec­tural inno­va­tion that has occured as a result in the imag­in­ing of new muse­ums and con­cert halls, and New York Times explores the lat­ter in a piece pub­lished this morn­ing look­ing at the Dis­ney Con­cert Hall in Los Ange­les and the newly ren­dered images of the upcom­ing Elble Con­cert Hall in Hamburg.

The Ham­burg con­struc­tion seems breath­tak­ing. It also strikes me as sim­i­lar to some of the inte­ri­ors imag­ined for the 1969 ver­sion of Planet of the Apes, but I mean that in the most endear­ing way pos­si­ble. The arti­cle is lengthy, but cer­tainly worth read­ing since it explores the area from which most of the cur­rent archi­tec­tural inno­va­tions come from.

Posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm