Odense Music and Theatre hall is nearing construction - C.F. Møller. Photo: C.F. Møller
5.6.2013

Odense Music and Theatre hall is nearing construction

The Odense Music and Theatre hall is an important step closer to becoming a reality, after a large majority of the Odense City Council and the development and construction company KPC have agreed on the terms of the construction phase. The building complex can thus be tendered, and start on site from the beginning of 2014.
Odense Music and Theatre hall is nearing construction - C.F. Møller. Photo: C.F. Møller
The Odense Music and Theatre hall offers the city a recreational and experimental arts center, which among other things provides new and improved facilities for two of the city's major cultural institutions: The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Odense Theatre. Odense Music and Theatre hall is also designed to include a modern conference center, shops and 42 student housing units as part of the complex. "What makes the project unique is that it is intended as a" city of culture "- it becomes like a city in itself, an extension of the urban fabric that surrounds it. In the middle lies the holy of holies, the great hall, and it can be experienced as a square, a place you suddenly reach while walking on a street. In this way, the house reflects the new dense urbanity, which is being built around Thomas B. Thriges street, and, like the city, it is in short more about what the complex can contain and what it can offer rather than the building itself" explains Klaus Toustrup, architect and partner in C.F. Møller. The project has a total area of approx. 32,000 m2, and the main hall contains 1,740 seats. C.F. Møller, along with a team of sub-consultants from COWI, Gade Mortensen Acoustics and AIX theater planning has design the project in cooperation with KPC. The project has been developed in close collaboration with the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and Odense Theatre, both of which can move into new surroundings when the complex is finished in 2016.

 

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