With its operatic ending immortalized by Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav III of Sweden made an – indirect – contribution to universal music, though the truth is that this enlightened monarch also supported in life the art of Euterpe, promoting the foundation
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won the competition to build the Vltava Philharmonic Hall by the river in Prague’s Holešovice district. Barozzi Veiga and Bevk Perović arhitekti placed second and third. In BIG’s winning scheme, the building is accessibl
The geometry addresses the adjoining urban spaces and its curves redefine the different uses of the square. In the section, the concert hall and a meditation room are superposed, connected by tubes to send sound from one to the other. The round conce
The British firm AL-A, led by Amanda Levete, has won the competition to build a concert hall in Ušće Park, along the stretch of the Danube River that flows through the Serbian capital. Its entry carried the day over those of the five other teams that
Within the El Laurel industrial park of La Zubia, a municipality in the comarca La Vega de Granada, we find this scenic Copera Garden. The project to enlarge it led to occupying the old parking lot, combining industrial elements like prefabricated pi
The new concert venue reflects the post-industrial identity of the neighborhood. Evoking warehouse architecture, it is designed as a large meccano of prefabricated structures that can be assembled, taken apart, altered, and extended...
Located in the heart of Düsseldorf, this mixed-use development commissioned to the firm Snøhetta presents two towers containing offices, apartments, and a hotel, and includes a new opera house for the city. Named Duett Düsseldorf, the new cultural sp
The sinuous forms of the four auditoriums establish a connection with the sea, evoking the history of the city as a fishing village. Inside, the use of a pearlescent material generates reflections as a symbolic fusion of water, music, and light.
The only opera that Ludwig van Beethoven wrote, Fidelio, has not ceased to attract music connoisseurs since it premiered in Vienna in 1805. For the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, the Theater an der Wien has presented – with set designs by
The firm Herzog & de Meuron recently completed the renovation and new extension of the Stadtcasino Basel. Built in 1876, this concert hall is one of Europe’s oldest, world-renowned for its acoustics. What started as an urban study in 2012 has resulte
A semi-transparent glass facade wraps the new volume, which contains a concert hall seating 1,600 spectators covered with a ceiling of white reflecting petals that allows lighting and visualizations be projected for musical performances...
The new opera house of Shanghai, with its sculptural roof of spiraling steps leading down to a square beside the Huangpu River, will contain three auditoriums seating 2,000, 1,200, and 1,000.
The German firm gmp (Architekten Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner) finished refurbishing and enlarging te Kulturpalast of Dresde in 2017. A result of a 2009 competition, the intervention respects the style of the original building, raised in 1969, while
The project aims to place the remote location behind the Ostbahnhof on the map, within a larger master plan to renew the old industrial area with a Boulevard of Music, a broad promenade linking the new music quarter with the station and the city cent
In 1957, when he was 38 years old, Utzon won the competition to build the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, a small cape located at the center of the Bay, between the interior port and the coast. It was a moment of change in Australia, an optimi
Two years before his death, artist, filmmaker, and playwright Christoph Schlingensief managed to embark Kéré on his dream of building an opera house in the heart of Africa. While traveling through Burkina Faso in search of the adequate site, the coun
Despite the attempts to escape the shoebox-shaped auditorium, experience shows that this type of concert hall offers the best acoustics. In this case, the design chosen reinterprets the type, redefining the relationship of the concert hall with the e
Like a glacier splinter trapped in the heart of the city, the building gives character to an area that was much destroyed by bombings of the Allied air forces during World War II.
A facade built with aluminum strips placed horizontally folds to mark the accesses and wraps, in one single terraced volume, the three functions of the building: congress center, symphony concert hall, and 150-room hotel...
La Asamblea Nacional de Noruega decidió en 1999 que la nueva Ópera de Oslo se emplazara en Bjørvika, una zona de la capital situada en la orilla de su fiordo. El edificio, cuya construcción supone el primer paso de un plan de desarrollo para esta áre
Si Dubai aspira a ser un emblema urbano del siglo XXI, el proyecto para su ópera pretende convertirse en un icono a nivel planetario. Situado sobre el agua, en la desembocadura del río a lo largo del cual se extiende el casco histórico, el edificio s
Se conoce como la Venecia del Norte por sus canales, y también ha compartido con la ciudad italiana su aversión por la arquitectura moderna. Designada patrimonio de la humanidad en 2000, Brujas fue elegida dos años después Capital Europea de la Cultu
Tras el reconocimiento unánime que ha obtenido su último edificio inaugurado —la Biblioteca Central de Seattle—, Rem Koolhaas está a punto de concluir en Oporto las obras de la Casa da Música, un volumen de planos inclinados cuya forma irregular tien
If there is something we are still learning from Las Vegas, it is the fact that there are no limits to creativity in the search for publicity ploys and gimmicks. To its kitch imitation of Italy’s City of Canals, the casino and hotel The Venetian has
With works like the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet behind it, the firm Snøhetta, based mainly in Oslo, has triumphed in the international competition for the privilege of building the Shanghai Grand Opera House, in conjunction with the Chinese s
London has always been one of Europe’s foremost music capitals, so will not willingly fall behind other great cities – European and Asian alike – in the creation of grand auditoriums, theaters, and opera houses. This is the message conveyed by its de
Después de siete años de obras y retrasos, y de que el Estado francés se gastase 386 millones de euros en lugar de los 200 presupuestados, la Philharmonie de París era una obra tan esperada como mirada con lupa. Por eso no extraña que su inauguración
El estudio Snøhetta ha sido seleccionado para construir la Ópera de Busan —la segunda ciudad surcoreana más poblada tras la capital, Seúl—, imponiéndose a las propuestas de los otros nueve finalistas, entre los que se encontraban Norman Foster, Zaha
El estilo desinhibido y formalista del francés Rudy Ricciotti ha adoptado en su propuesta ganadora para la nueva Sala de Músicas Actuales (SMAC) que se construirá en Metz, la forma de una caja de música. Aceptando las condiciones urbanísticas del pl
Para celebrar el milenario de su fundación, la capital vietnamita ha puesto en marcha el proyecto del mayor espacio escénico del país, la Ópera Thang Long —el dragón rampante, nombre poético de Hanoi—, firmada por el despacho Renzo Piano Buiding Work
Un iceberg transitable a orillas del fiordo, así se podría describir la Ópera de Oslo, obra del estudio noruego Snøhetta, ganadora del último premio Mies van der Rohe. El marcado carácter público del edificio, que resuelve la conexión de la ciudad co
En octubre de 2003, Paulo Mendes da Rocha visitó entusiasmado la ‘osamenta’ en construcción de la Casa da Música, la nueva sala de conciertos que el holandés Rem Koolhaas ha proyectado para la densa y granítica ciudad de Oporto. Al final de un largo
