“I’ll build you a hall that rings like a violin,” said the great Auguste Perret to the pianist Alfred Cortot, an ambition that Italian architect Giorgio Palù of Arkpabi Architecture Studio no doubt had in mind when imagining his very first concert hall 15 or so years ago. Commissioned as part of the Museo del Violino he designed for his birthplace, Cremona—famed for its violin-making, the Lombard town counts both Andrea Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari among its illustrious tradition of luthiers—the intimate Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi (installed inside a 1941 building by Carlo Cocchia) caught the attention of many in the music world upon its 2013 inauguration. Among them were the directors of Stockholm’s Lilla Akademien, who approached Palù and his acoustician—Yasuhisa Toyota of famed Japanese firm Nagata Acoustics—to create something similar in the Swedish capital.