The CKK Jordanki concert hall emerges like an outcrop of weathered rock from an urban park in Toruń, in northern Poland. Its Spanish architect, Fernando Menis, has yoked such imagery to local architectural references and technical ingenuity to establish a strong character for the building while deferring to its sensitive setting on the edge of the medieval Old Town. While the form is intended to suggest a “natural object” in the landscape, facades are accented with the red brick of the city’s celebrated gothic architecture, which finds more dramatic expression here as an innovative lining to two cavernous—and acoustically refined—auditoria.
Half buried to minimize intrusion on the skyline, the building comprises four visually separate concrete forms linked above ground by glazed enclosures and below grade by a shared basement. Approaching from the Old Town, the first volume contains offices and a café, while the second and third blocks house the chamber music and main concert halls. The fourth, containing technical equipment, is set into an embankment.
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