Concert Hall Design
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.