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Well, it's better than Brampton's Rose Centre. Though maybe, from an Urban Shocker perspective at least, it's so "better", it's worse...
Gergiev wouldn't be hiring Diamond + Shmitt if they hadn't designed one of the great opera houses.
Well, it's better than Brampton's Rose Centre. Though maybe, from an Urban Shocker perspective at least, it's so "better", it's worse...
None of that will mean anything to the Diamond-bashers, whose idea of "going to the opera" consists of standing on the sidewalk and complaining that a delivery entrance looks like a delivery entrance and not a Greek temple, etc. etc. etc.
Well the architecture creates the way it sounds. That's why D+S worked with Essert to model the space using computer programs - with all those little balls that bounced back off surfaces etc. - tweaking the space so it worked ... and then building it.
Essert wasn't the architect, he was a consultant to one.
You don't keep a dog and bark yourself. Essert did the acoustical barking for Diamond because he has the specialist knowledge ( and the track record ) to do so. I doubt if Jack loomed the seat coverings or sawed the wood planking for the floors either, but they all contribute to the building he designed.