From the earliest stages of the project, the client for Jean Nouvel’s Copenhagen Concert Hall, the Danish Radio, had decided that the building’s main auditorium should have a so-called “vineyard configuration,” or one in which stepped blocks of seating surround the stage. Even though there are many shoebox-shaped halls with excellent acoustics, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (Adolf Leonard van Gendt, 1888) and Boston Symphony Hall (McKim, Mead & White, 1900), Danish Radio wanted a vineyard auditorium like the one in Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonie (1963), along with the more dynamic relationship between audience and performers that such a layout could provide.
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