Harbour master - design and construction of a concert hall in Bristol, England

Architectural Review, The, Dec, 1998 by Peter Blundell Jones

4 No space here for the background theory. see Chapter 10 of my Hans Scharoun. Phaidon 1995.

5 Dead because a concert hall is necessarily an isolated container allowing no visual or aural connection between inside and out. Only the life in the foyer can be shown off.

6 Statement provided by Richard Burton. see note 1.

7 Arts Council statement dated 30 July 1998, supplied by Arts Council Press Office.

Architect Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, Stuttgart, Germany

Project team Gunter Behnisch, Stefan Behnisch, Gunther Schaller, David Cook, Martin Arvidsson, Volker Biermann, Andreas Ditschuneit, Martin Gremmel, Jill Hauck-Spaeh, Malte Hofmeister, Diana Michael. Frank Ockert, Klaus Schwagerl, Ian Waters

Structural engineer Buro Happold

Environmental engineer Max Fordham & Partners

Acoustic consultants Muller BBM

Theatre consultant Theatre Project Consultants

Model photographs Christian Kandzia

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