Louis Kahn's floating concert hall may go to scrap
A stainless steel barge that American architect Louis Kahn designed to host orchestral concerts will be scrapped at a Louisiana shipyard, unless it finds a new owner by the end of the month. More
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Caruso St John's Liverpool Philharmonic Hall refurbishment revives an art deco masterpiece
Architecture firm Caruso St John has been named among the winners of the 2017 RIBA Regional Awards for its renovation and extension of Herbert Rowse's art deco Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. More
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Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More
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Conjoined glass and steel tubes form Studio Fuksas' concert and exhibition venue in Georgia
These images show the tubular forms of a music theatre and exhibition hall by Studio Fuksas, which is nearing completion in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. More
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Allied Works Architecture creates massive music centre for downtown Calgary
Covering two city blocks, Canada's National Music Centre comprises towering volumes clad in bronze-hued tiles and a refurbished historic brick building. More
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Drones offer fly-through preview of Herzog de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
For those who can't wait for the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to open next month, creative agency Jung von Matt has released an interactive movie tour of the building filmed by drones. More
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Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie concert hall finished with monochrome furniture
For Herzog & de Meuron's £163-million Elbphilharmonie concert hall, the designers furnishing the space opted for a monochrome colour palette to keep the focus on the surrounding architecture. More
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Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg announces completion in lights
Herzog & de Meuron's long-delayed Hamburg concert hall has announced its completion to the city in huge illuminated letters. More
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MAD reveals plans for translucent China Philharmonic Hall in Beijing
Chinese studio MAD has released visuals for its new concert hall in Beijing, which will be draped in a translucent fluted facade. More
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Zaha Hadid's Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre nears completion
These new photographs reveal a vast cultural complex by Zaha Hadid Architects, which is reaching its final stages of construction in the Chinese city Nanjing (+ slideshow). More
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Rex releases images of performing arts centre for New York's World Trade Center
A translucent marble cube by Rex Architecture that will contain the Perelman Performing Arts Center has been unveiled as the "keystone" for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan (+ slideshow). More
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Diamond Schmitt Architects reveals Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts for Texas
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects has announced the construction of a concert hall dedicated to American musician Buddy Holly on what would have been his 80th birthday (+ slideshow). More
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Concert halls take centre stage on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
A concert hall in Poland featuring concrete and crushed brickwork impressed readers this week, so we've visited the Dezeen archives to create a Pinterest board full of awe-inspiring performance venues. Others include a spiky building shortlisted for last year's Mies van der Rohe Award and Herzog & de Meuron's part-completed Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
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Fernando Menis combines crushed brickwork and concrete for cavernous concert hall in Poland
Tenerife architect Fernando Menis claims to have developed a new construction technique, demonstrated by this concert hall in Poland featuring faceted surfaces of crushed brick and concrete (+ slideshow). More
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Chipperfield unveils design for partially buried concert hall in Germany
David Chipperfield Architects has released images of its design for a half-submerged concert hall bracketed by textured concrete walls in southern Germany (+ slideshow). More
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New photos offer a closer look around Jean Nouvel's Philharmonie de Paris
These new images by photographer Danica O Kus provide a tour around the exterior of Philharmonie de Paris, the concert hall designed and disowned by French architect Jean Nouvel (+ slideshow). More
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Bureau V converts an old Brooklyn sawdust factory into a concert hall
New York studio Bureau V has transformed a brick industrial building into a musical venue, with an auditorium featuring white walls criss-crossed by black stripes (+ slideshow). More
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Concrete concert hall by Rojkind Arquitectos will overlook the Gulf of Mexico
Construction work has started on a new concert hall by Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos in Boca del Rio, Mexico, featuring a bold geometric form that references the jagged outline of an adjacent jetty. More
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House of Music represents a "very simple but powerful typology" says Wolf D Prix
Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix explains how the design of his House of Music concert hall in Denmark was influenced by a monastery by Le Corbusier in this movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. More
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen's Malmö Live is a cultural complex designed as "a small city"
Scandinavian firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a canal-side cultural complex in Malmö, Sweden, featuring a 1,600-seat concert hall, a conference centre and a trio of hotel towers (+ slideshow). More