Why are concert halls so expensive? Of all buildings it is concert halls that consistently seem to run so wildly beyond budget, are delivered so late and almost inevitably become so controversial. From the saga of the Sydney Opera House (10 years late, 15 times over budget) to Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall (16 years in the making, two-and-a-half times over budget) and Copenhagen’s Koncerthuset (in 2007 the most expensive concert hall ever built, almost destroying its client, DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation), today’s classical music venues have become a potential architectural nightmare. They are a cocktail of visionary ambition and urban boosterism, the quest for sonic perfection and the pain of a protracted, searingly expensive construction process......Continue Reading

Top image: Jean Nouvel's La Philharmonie de Paris, 2015, via Wikipedia.

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