A New Concert Hall for Copenhagen

In 1993 the Copenhagen Municipality called for an open European Architectura l Competition for a Concert Hall on the waterfront in Copenhagen.The position is prime but small, see fig. 1.The winning prices were high £140.000,1:50.000 to the winner.The complex is to house first of all an acoustic excellent Concert Hall, one of the best in Europe.Further an experimental opera scene, a symphony orchestra rehearsal hall, a music library, an activity courtyard, restaurants, and all the necessary supporting area .In all a l3.000In: nett area on a block of land of 10.500 m , through which a major distributing road must pass.276 entries were judged of which nearly 25! were in English language.The highest placed english entry was by Chris Thurlbourne, E. Fasanya and s.Jensen, who got an honorable mention, (nearly the same team took second price in a cultur house competition in Greenland in 1992).The declared winner was Henning Larsen, a well known Danish architect, whom you may know from the Compton Verney Opera project. THE CONCERTHALL SITUATION I CPI-l.Two well known Concert Halls exist in CPR.The Danish Broadcast Studio 1. and the Tivoli Concert Hall.Both are described in ref. 1.A third hall "Odd Fellow" burned to the grown in 1991.And since CPH is to be the cultural city of Europe in 1996 it is felt, that now is the time to build.