New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida by Gehry Partners, LLP

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An esteemed conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas founded the New World Symphony (NWS) in 1987 as an orchestral academy for gifted graduates of major music conservatories. Having $75 million endowment from the late Ted Arison, Thomas have chosen Frank Gehry to build the magnificent new NWC building, with 557-car garage, and the 2.5-acre Miami Beach Soundscape Park from which the public can view free simulcasts of concerts projected on part of the center’s facade.

Concerts feature theatrical, immersive lighting; specially commissioned videos; and contextual information projected onto the five huge, curved, acoustic, saillike wall panels, suspended below the ceiling. In the interior ample daylight is admitted through a window behind the stage and a skylight, both constructed of multilayered laminated glass to mitigate outside noise. The concert hall is also protected from intrusive sound by massive concrete walls isolated from the interior ones.

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