Hall One
Hall One, the main concert hall, is a building within a building – a box that sits on rubber springs to give it complete acoustic separation from the rest of the building.
It is built to the regular shoebox geometry – a double cube – that is considered most successful for small concert halls. Structural columns around the hall are set away from the walls to allow curtains to be drawn between the columns and the walls to modify the acoustic for speech or amplified music.
It won the "Commercial and Public Access" award and the overall "Gold Award" in the 2009 Wood Awards.
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