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Lang Music Building, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA, 1973 designed by Mitchell/Giurgola Associates

The most remarkable characteristic of the auditorium space, however, is the large glass wall behind the stage, offering a view of the surrounding wooded landscape. This unusual design element for a recital hall, which are usually windowless spaces, was an attempt by Giurgola to further integrate the building with the landscape and maximize the potential that such a beautiful landscape offered. This glass wall, which was reduced in size during discussions with the College about the design, was one of the most controversial elements of the building, provoking concerns that it would not be acoustically sound or that it was a prioritization of aesthetic desires over Quaker-like functionalism. -- "Preserving the Work of Mitchell/Giurgola Associates" by Brendan R. Beier, University of Pennsylvania, P. 60

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Seiji Ozawa Hall for The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, USA, 1994 designed by Epstein Joslin Architects

A 1200 seat interior concert hall with doors at the rear, opens to allow a 2000 seat lawn audience to see the performance. The hall is the main stage of the Tanglewood Music Center, a summer fellowship program for pre-professional musicians. It is also the setting for performances by world-renowned recitalists and chamber groups. The hall can also be acoustically isolated for use as a professional recording studio. -- architect's web site

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Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA, 2010 designed by Epstein Joslin Architects

A 335-seat Concert Hall with Lobby and upper floor Reception Room, inserted within the rebuilt and expanded historic Haskins Building on the main street of Rockport, MA, is the new home of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. The worn exterior of the mercantile edifice has been returned to its 1845 Second Empire splendor to enhance the charm of its historic village setting. The interior has been completely reconfigured as a world-class performance venue that integrates the beauty of the ocean setting on which it adjoins. The oceanfront façade has been reshaped to open all public rooms to the harbor and add a new joyful and scaled face to the Town’s harbor edge. -- architect's web site

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Franciscan Chapel, Kisfakos, Nagykanizsa, Hungary designed by SAGRA

The proportional mass of the building and its roofs’ contour has drawn themselves in the landscape, closing the space of the courtyard bordered by the buildings of the farm. Each opening of the building is framing one of the misterious creatures of nature, shaping space and time each steps. Being inside and outside can be experienced at the same time. -- ArchDaily