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Perth Concert Hall, Building Design Partnership, Scotland, Photos, Location
Perth Concert Hall : Information + Images
Scottish Concert Venue by BDP Architects, UK
Address: Mill Street, Perth
Building Photos by Keith Hunter
Perth
Concert Hall : RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture 2006
shortlist
The only new-build full scale concert hall built in Scotland since
1990. The 1200 seat Perth Concert Hall is now complete

Perth Concert Hall: interior image
It is the result of the Perth 2000 international architectural competition,
the jury of which was chaired by Eva Jiricna, and won by BDP
Glasgow in 1998.
The main auditorium was designed principally as a concert hall for
orchestral music, but it is fully flexible to accommodate a wide range
of events. A unique floor lift configuration allows the raked seating
to be stowed and the floor level raised to provide a full flat floor.
The strong and memorable architectural form, combined with the provision
of a new international standard venue for the performing arts, are
set to make Perth Concert Hall one of the most significant Scottish
public buildings of recent years.
Following a short design presentation by BDP, there will be a tour
of the building and recorded music played in the main auditorium.
Perth Concert Hall - information from GIA

Perth Concert Hall: atrium image
Perth Concert Hall Building - Sep 2005 Update
GALA OPENING FOR PERTHS NEW CONCERT HALL
Perth Concert Hall is host to a Gala Concert, given by the Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, on 16 Sep 2005
The event marks the public opening of the first full-scale purpose-built
concert hall in Scotland since 1990. The £17M Perth Concert
Hall building is the result of an international architectural competition,
chaired by Eva Jiricna, and won by BDPs Glasgow office in 1998.
Located in Perths historic Horsecross, once a thriving market
area but more recently marginalised, Perth Concert Hall is viewed
in the round and BDPs free form plan is a unifying response
to the irregular edges of the urban fabric bounding the site. The
Horsecross area has already witnessed significant urban regeneration,
as a result of the impending opening of this new facility, which includes
a streetscaping project by the local authority following completion
of the Concert Hall.
Bruce Kennedy, BDP Project Architect for the Concert Hall said The
distinctive form of the main auditorium is strongly expressed, both
externally and within the foyer, to celebrate the buildings
function and create a contemporary architectural icon for Perth. The
curved plan form minimizes the scale of what is a large civic building,
allowing it to integrate successfully into the sensitive historic
townscape.
At the heart of the Perth Concert Hall building BDP has designed a
fully flexible 1,200 seat concert hall, the Gannochy Auditorium, which
features uniquely configured floor lifts and movable seating wagons
to provide both raked seating and a large-scale flat floor. The flexible
format of the hall can also accommodate events such as conference,
sports, fashion shows, dinner dances and even a motor show.
BDP Acoustics modelled the main auditoriums natural acoustic
for orchestral music, with flexibility for a range of acoustic environments
provided by retractable acoustic banners and powerful electro-acoustic
systems. Commissioning results confirm that the auditorium will be
an excellent venue for music events or speech.
Perth Concert Hall: exterior image; photo on right from artist Shaeron Averbuch
In addition to the Gannochy Auditorium, BDPs design provides
a smaller, day-lit 150 seat multi-purpose hall, the Norrie Miller
Studio, which has been acoustically modelled and is able to be fully
blacked-out and can be sub-divided by means of a movable partition
to form two smaller rooms.
A large-scale glazed open foyer, with café, bar and box office,
forms a new civic space in Perth conceived as an extension of the
new external public square which surrounds it. Green patinated copper
was selected by BDP to clad auditorium, partly as a reference to the
copper dome of the adjacent Perth Museum, but principally as a foil
to the zinc, white precast concrete, white render and silver curtain
walling of the envelope.
The client for the Concert Hall was Perth and Kinross Leisure, and
the venue is now managed by Horsecross. The project started on site
in 2003 and completed in Summer 2005 at a construction cost of £12.5m.
BDP was Architect, Interior Designer and Acoustic Consultant.
Other members of the team were: C&S, M&E Consultant and Fire
Engineer - Buro Happold; Theatre Consultant - Carr and Angier; QS
- Gardiner and Theobald; Project Manager GTMS; Design and Build
Contractor; Sir Robert McAlpine.
Perth Concert Hall - Building Information from BDP Scotland 080905
Perth 2000 international architectural competition : chaired by Eva
Jiricna Architect
Perth
Concert Hall : Scottish Design Awards 2006 - Best Building for
Public Use
nominee
Glasgow buildings by the Building Design Partnership:-
Cardonald College
Glasgow Tower with Richard Horden
Architects
Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow Imax
Edinburgh buildings by the Building Design Partnership:-
Scottish
Widows
Edinburgh
Council HQ
Perth
Concert Hall Architects : BDP
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Perth Concert Hall images © Keith Hunter
Perth
Concert Hall Award : Dynamic Place - Built Environment Commended 2005
Scottish Concert Hall - Glasgow
Glasgow School of Art Competition


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