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Concert Halls · Theatres · Convention Centres · Cinemas · Arenas
Annual 2012
Stone rose
opera house blossoms in Guangzhou
Zaha Hadid's pebble-inspired
Inside:
Frank Gehry's brave New World
The Mariinsky, St Petersburg
Musical youth: attracting new audiences
A Canterbury tale: Marlowe Theatre
Simplicity in Motion
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Contents
Iwan Baan
contents
4 Auditoria loves…
…the Kauffman Center for the Performing
Arts in Kansas City, Missouri
6 Face value
The Ambassad
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Contents Iwan Baan contents 4 Auditoria love
CONTENTS Rui Dias-Aidos contents 84 Visual eff
150 Ringing the changes Kinetic architectural app
UPfront Author
UPFRONT Auditoria loves… …the Kauffman Center
InTervIeW Nick PoTTer Q&A The Ambassador Theatre
IntervIew Simon annand Alex Ferns (Billis) and
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new world Symphony Brave New W orld F
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new world symphony tomas loewy Emilio Collavino
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commission was initially set to be designed by Ge
new world syMphony Claudia Uribe the exterior o
Creating spaces to perform, study, and practice t
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE emma pomfret iwan Baan 16
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE The Guangzhou Opera Hous
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE Virgile Simon Bertrand 18
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Marlowe TheaTre mark shenton
Marlowe theatre the uncompromisingly mod
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NEW MARIINSKY THEATRE conservative design
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NEW mariiNsky THEaTrE
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royal welsh college of music & drama future
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architecture lmn architects
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design HGA ArCHIteCts And enGIneers T
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seATing A flAir for de Beyond the façades
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LigHting GLobAL DEsiGn soLUTions Light fantastic
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GDS Straight forward thinking The
LIGHTING ADB LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES Light ody
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Stage technology Prolyte Simplicity in motion De
Stage technology the Bolshoi performer fly syste
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STAGE TECHNOLOGY: riGGiNG Jr ClAnCy The wow facto
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Design, Manufacture & Installation of Theatrical
stage technology Tüchler Multiple choice Whethe
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Stage technology gala sysTems Transformative expe
stage technology Bexar County Performing arts Ce
sTAge TeChnology gala systems Photo: timothy Hur
The Best Venues in the world use Gala Systems
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stage technology auditoria annual 2012 113
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design Norway’s capital for many years an
AcouSticS Sound Space deSign Team effort
ACOUSTICS insight into the music-making a
ACOUSTICS VANGUARDIA CONSULTING Acoustic awaken
acoustics of the auditorium and detailed
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