Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Founded in 1861 by Henry Wilde within St James’s Hall as a school of music and oratory, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) integrated institutions of different arts during the 20th century, becoming one of the most prestigious drama

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Hungary   A sinuous roof that merges with the lush vegetation of the historic Városliget crowns an exhibition center devoted to the rich musical tradition – cultivated and popular – of the Magyar country. The undulating disk of the roof, perforated in an irreg

Arias Garrido Arquitectos   Spain   Addressing two different programs, the complex breaks up into interconnected separate volumes on the banks of the Pisuerga River. The largest, at the site’s north end, harbors the auditorium seating 608. The smaller ones contain the music school’s cl

Mailitis Architects J. Pogas Birojs   Latvia   Every five years the city of Riga is the venue of one of the largest song festivals in the world, held since 1873 and able to bring in a colossal choir of 20,000 members. Such congregations were a delight for Soviet leaders, who in 1955 transferred

Os 3 arkitektura   Spain   The extension is a volume with a frame of cross-laminated timber panels, clad in larchwood louvers and held up by the loadbearing walls of a 19th-century villa beside it, in the Basque town of Usurbil, Gipuzkoa province. The intervention stretches on

Manuel Álvarez-Monteserín Beatriz Pachón Javier Simó Mark Ongg EDDEA   Taiwan   In the southern Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, close to the mouth of the Love River, lies this 88,000-square-meter complex devoted to pop music, a work of the team led by Manuel Álvarez-Monteserin with Beatriz Pachón, Javier Simó, Mark Ongg (local

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli   Italy   The Treviso-based practice of Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, and Curzio Pentimalli built the new Music School of Bressanone, which was founded in 1961 and is among the most important cultural institutions in the Alpine region of South Tyrol. The ti

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Hungary   Inspired in the worlds of nature and of music, the Japanese studio won in 2014 the competition to build the House of Hungarian Music, to be built in Budapest’s largest park. An undulated disc, pierced by random openings, is elevated on slender suppor

Javier de las Heras Solé   Spain   The project approaches the Zeleieta Zentroa building as an autonomous element. With this idea as starting point, the following objectives are set: in the first place, to turn its party wall into an extra facade to complete and wrap up the entire peri

Snøhetta   China   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.

Jean Nouvel   France   An envelope of aluminum scales with patterns inspired in Escherian motifs protects a large balconied concert hall designed in the manner of Scharoun¹s Berliner Philaharmonie. 

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is

Fernando Menis   Poland   Located in the small Polish city of Torun – whose old quarter is on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1997 – the Jordanki Cultural and Congress Center goes up in a green ring around the historic center and looks out onto the river. This strategic

Snøhetta   Norway   The temporary character of the structure combined with its musical performance function largely determined the construction system and form of a pavilion that rises over the roofs of the historical quarter of Kongsberg. The structure is the main venu

Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos   Belgium   The building addresses its surroundings with a volume contour evoking the pitched roofs of traditional houses and a colorful envelope conceived like a work of ‘op-art’.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The volume proposed expresses an urban scale towards Schützenstrasse. In contrast, the side entrance towards Werastrasse has one level and reflects a more domestic scale…

gmp Architekten   Germany   The school building echoes the prominent sloping location with a tiered design, moreover defining three distinct program areas – living, learning, performing – that meet the center’s requirements…

Burger Rudacs Architekten   Germany   Placed over the auditorium, the four modules of 18m in depth adapt to the slope. The building stretches the alignment of Werastrasse, where the main access is located…

UNStudio   Austria   La Kunstuniversität Graz (Escuela Superior de Música y Artes Escénicas), conocida como KUG, estrena su Haus für Musik und Musiktheater (Casa y Teatro de la Música) con un nombre de extrañas resonancias, MUMUTH. Como parte del centro de formación de j

marte.marte architects   Austria   In a bucolic landscape, with traditional double-pitched roof houses and thick greenery carpeting the hillside, the association of musicians of Zwisschenwasser decided to build a wood box in which to gather for rehearsal. The commission focussed on th

Rudy Ricciotti   Germany   En una manzana residencial del centro histórico de Potsdam, antigua residencia de la corte de Federico II, se encuentra la Nikolaikirche de Schinkel, que fue seriamente dañada durante la II Guerra Mundial. Parte de sus funciones parroquiales las asum

Coll-Leclerc   Spain   Located next  to one of the roads that leaves from Palma, the area which houses the School of Music and the Professional School of Dance of Baleares is surrounded by development sites. This commission was considered an opportunity to consolidate

Steven Holl   Netherlands   Junto a la Academia Nacional de Artes Visuales renovada por Koen van Velzen y en lo que fue sede de una compañía de suministros médicos, se encuentran hoy las oficinas de la compañía inmobiliaria Het Oosten, dedicada a la construcción de viviendas de

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid in March has staged the malaise of memory. The city’s Teatro Real has presented The Passenger, an opera whose characters travel on a ship that carries the remembrance of the horror of the Holocaust; the Royal Academy has inaugurated an exhibit

Carlos Jiménez   As good fortune and the grace of friends would have it, I found myself amid a festive crowd of Joan Manuel Serrat enthusiasts during a recent visit to Madrid. Unexpectedly, there I was on a wonderful seat, a longtime admirer of the poet and musician

Tapping his versatility, Ai Weiwei has created a new production of Turandot with himself as director, designer of stage sets and costumes, and video artist. The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma will be presenting this modern reinterpretation of Giacomo Pucc

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Delicate, beguiling and studded with trees, the museum has landed in a Budapest park – but behind it is a controversial €1bn vision by rightwing populist leader Viktor Orbán. A great big crumpet appears to have landed in the middle of Budapest’s City

The firm of the Madrid architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano – one of Spain’s most international practices, with a branch in Berlin – recently opened the Arvo Pärt Center in Laulasmaa, 35 kilometers from Tallin. Named after the composer it

Among Spain’s young practices right now, Barozzi Veiga is one of those most present in the international spotlight, and it has just wrapped up a music school in Brunico, a town in Italy’s South Tyrol region. Respect for the urban fabric, with its con

Ignacio García Pedrosa   The philharmonic typology designed by Hans Scharoun has been the model for the grand auditoriums built in the last decades, all conceived as landmarks in their respective cities. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Buildings made for sound are also made for sight. My generation learned the rule that auditoria are constructions to be judged with one’s eyes closed, but in truth few buildings are enjoyed with such wide open eyes as those raised for music. Be they

En 2002 cayó, víctima de aluminosis, el teatro Atlántida de Vic; ocho años después, Josep Llinás, Josep Llobet, Pedro Ayesta y Laia Vives han terminado el nuevo conjunto que lo sustituye, bautizado como Centro de Artes Escénicas de Osona, la comarca