Philharmonie Luxembourg

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Project Name: Philharmonie Luxembourg
Construction year: 2005
Website: www.philharmonie.lu
Address: Place de l'Europe 1 , LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Architect(s) : Christian de Portzamparc (www.chdeportzamparc.com)
Project Category: Cultural

Latitude: 49.6185
Longitude: 6.14247

Philharmonie Luxembourg

The Philharmonie is located on the Kirchberg plateau, right at the center of a triangular site surrounded with offices and European administration buildings. Filtering light, a vast peristyle composed of 827 columns constitutes the foyer all around the Grand Auditorium.

The latter appears as cliff bearing luminous faults. A long footbridge leads to the balconies and to the administrative facilities. The Grand Auditorium is characterized by 8 balcony-towers vertically distributed around the orchestra and the orchestra pit. The audience unites all around the musicians. The Music Chamber Hall is an external volume shaped as a twisted petal in order to avoid sound focusing effects as well as to create a space coiling up around the core building.

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