One of this month’s earlier posts, ArkitecTrue announced French architect Jean Nouvel had won a competition to design the new Philharmonie de Paris building at Parc de La Villette in the French capital. The aluminum-clad building — which in a model, drawings and computer-generated images resembles a mound of loosely stacked plates topped by a 170-foot-high sail — will have a 2,400-seat auditorium designed in what experts call a “vineyardâ€? style, with the audience on all sides of the orchestra on multilevel “terraces.â€?
The 2,400 seat auditorium is due to open in 2012.
Balconies in the main auditorium.
Mr. Nouvel said that the novelty of his auditorium was to “suspend� balconies — they will be attached to the building by access passages — in a way that allows sound waves to circulate around and behind them. “The idea is that the audience will be in the middle of the music,� he said at the design’s unveiling at the Cité de la Musique.
The main auditorium.
Beneath the foyer.
View of the park from the foyer.
Photo source: dezeen
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