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Ground was broken November 10, 1978. Acoustical design was by Bolt, Beranek and Newman and uses a series of convex curves to avoid flat surfaces or ninety-degree angles inside the hall. [1] The auditorium is oval, its cylindrical wall extends the entire height of the building with the roof sloping down over the stage area.
It features two auditoria, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2,500-seat performance venue, as well as the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, which seats 536. Opened in September 1998 at a cost of $120 million, Benaroya is noted for its technology-infused acoustics designed by Cyril Harris. Benaroya occupies an entire city block in ...
Auditorium. The auditorium has a maximum seating capacity of 3,017. It is wheelchair accessible and has an infrared system for 100 hearing-impaired people (in addition to signers). Stage. Type: proscenium; Playing space dimensions: 64'x33' or 64'x40' Proscenium opening: 64'x30' Height grid/ceiling: 78' Floor type: Canadian hard rock maple
The auditorium was designed by renowned Bay Area architects John Galen Howard, Frederick Herman Meyer and John W. Reid Jr. and built in 1915 as part of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. The auditorium hosted the 1920 Democratic National Convention , the San Francisco Opera from 1923 to 1932 and again for the 1996 season, [ 2 ] and ...
Its components are an auditorium with a maximum seating capacity of 2,500, [1] a multi-purpose arena with a maximum seating capacity of 6,500, [2] an exhibition hall and a reception hall. It was built in 1961. [3] Panorama of Coliseum in 2007
Construction of Cullen Performance Hall was part of a large expansion to the University of Houston's permanent buildings on campus that took place starting on May 10, 1948. The hall originally sat 1,680, and was intended to host similar events as the Houston Music Hall which was the main music venue for the city at the time. [ 2 ]
The hall contains a pipe organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, which is the largest mechanical action pipe organ in an American concert hall. The organ is Dobson's Opus 76 and is named for Fred J. Cooper. The hall has two consoles with four manuals, 97 ranks and 124 stops.
Indiana University Auditorium (IU Auditorium), is a 3,200-seat performing arts venue located at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. [1] It is situated in IU's Fine Arts Plaza alongside the Lilly Library and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Construction on IU Auditorium began in 1939 as a part of the Federal Works ...